What could one of the most popular Greek chocolates, one of the world’s most sought-after brandies, Athens’ most iconic hotel, Greece’s first flour milling company, and a leading European digital services group possibly have in common?It’s the same trait they share with a historic tobacco company, a major soap and liquid cosmetics manufacturer, one of the country’s largest food corporations, and three more distilleries excelling in exports. In total, we’re talking about 11 companies, most of them household names in Greece—and some abroad as well.Their stories span across three centuries.
These businesses began at a time when Greece’s borders barely reached Thessaly and did not yet include the Aegean Islands, Crete, or the Dodecanese—regions from which some of these very companies originated, even before they were liberated from Ottoman rule. And that’s not all..
.There’s even a unique case: that of a renowned flour milling company that traces its roots back to the distant year 1782. Its history stretches across four centuries, and today, it is in the hands of the seventh generation of the founding family.
These are companies with names as weighty as their histories, that stood the test of time and are now writing new chapters of success in their long and eventful journeys. To survive, they had to weather storms—two Balkan Wars, two World Wars, and several intense and prolonged economic crises: the official bankruptcies of 1893 (under Charilaos Trikoupis).
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