20 years of Greek Commerce Day – Brilliant anniversary event at the Benaki Museum

With a peculiarly superb lawsuit astatine the Benaki Museum, nether the auspices of H.E. the President of the Republic, Mr. Konstantinos A. Tasoulas, the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (ESEE) celebrated 20 years since the constitution of Greek Commerce Day.

The evening, which brought unneurotic apical authorities organization representatives, executives from the concern and banking sectors, societal partners and much than 100 merchants from each implicit Greece, highlighted the decisive relation of commerce successful the system and society, arsenic good arsenic the value of the unity of the sector.

The keynote speeches

On behalf of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State Kostis Hatzidakis stressed that “the authorities supports tiny and medium-sized businesses, not with wishful thinking, but with substantive policies”. He referred to taxation and publication reductions, improved liquidity and presented information showing an summation successful tiny and medium-sized businesses by 35,500 and employment by 253,000 successful the past 5 years. At the aforesaid time, helium described Greece arsenic a “strategic hub of determination and planetary scope”, acknowledgment to its geographical location.

For his part, the President of ESEE Stavros Kafounis underlined that “trade is the pulse of the Greek economy”, highlighting the conflict of the merchant “who survives each time successful conditions of quicksand”. He made peculiar notation to the Confederation’s proposals for taxation and security relief, arsenic good arsenic initiatives specified arsenic Shopping successful Greece and planetary collaborations with e-commerce platforms.

The caller individuality of ESEE

The lawsuit presented the caller firm individuality of the Confederation, with a renewed logo and integer website. “With our caller identity, we support our values ​​and illustration a people successful the caller era,” said Mr. Kafounis, noting that the extremity is to marque ESEE “a collective, documented and dynamic organization typical of each traders.”

Voices from the region

The interventions of traders from assorted regions of the country, who conveyed the circumstantial problems and prospects of each section market, were of peculiar interest. Among them: Kyriaki Konstantinidou (Kalamata), Apostolos Ontopoulos (Volos), Evi Apostolaki (Agia Pelagia) and Giorgos Eglezos (Kalamata).

The lawsuit closed with the symbolic gathering of the Council of Presidents of ESEE, successful the beingness of erstwhile presidents, underlining the continuity and unity of the sector.