Press Release 21.04.2015

 Date: 21/04/2015

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The Greek-Serbian Chamber of Greece inaugurates two offices in Serbia.

On 8 May will open the first office of the Greek Serbian Chamber of Greece in Southern Serbia, in Leskovac. The opening ceremony of the second office will take place on 12 June in Belgrade. The purpose of the two offices is the right information and processing in business demands.

The offices of the Greek – Serbian Chamber are open for the public from Monday to Friday 11:00 – 15:00 p.m. Also you can contact with operator every day from 09:00 a.m. to 21:00 p.m., in collaboration with the Extra Line Company, founding member of the Chamber.

The companies that aim to develop their economics relations with Serbia can fill the request form (free of charge) that exists in the site of Chamber in www.greekserbian.com.

Also, we would like to inform you that founding members of the Greek – Serbian Chamber of Greece are many companies and organizations of Greece and the most important Chambers of Serbia. Actually, it is worth mentioning that these Chambers represent over 80% of businesses in Serbia.

You can visit the official website of the Chamber in www.greekserbian.com.

(The site soon will be ready and will be posted in Greek, Serbian and English language)

 

With honor,

The President

Kostas Georgakos

 

Press Release 14.05.2015

Date: 14/05/2015

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The Greek-Serbian Chamber of Greece inaugurates the first office in Leskovac.

The first office of the Greek – Serbian Chamber of Greece inaugurated in the city of Leskovac in Serbia, last Friday, May 8th. The opening ceremony followed by the first meeting of the administration committee of the Chamber held in the presence of Presidents of Serbian Chambers and representative of the Central Union of Chambers of Serbia. The press conference showed the intense media interest in the trade relations between the two countries, since there were above fifteen journalists.

The administrative committee rapidly arranging the following actions of the Chamber, that, in Serbia, will complete with the opening of the second office in Belgrade, which will be held Friday, June 12, at the central building of the Belgrade Chamber.

For the record, the first fifty days of the Chamber operation, the companies that have expressed interest have overcome the two hundred, something that point out the necessity of this particular Chamber.

The President of the Greek – Serbian Chamber of Greece, Kostas Georgakos, said that “our main purpose is to create a cooperation framework to achieve business agreements with companies of the two countries. At this point, I want to mention, that transactions between the two countries is 360 million euro. Our goal is to reach the 1 billion euro annually. The main concern of the Chamber is to create a new economic environment that will bring new companies and new jobs. The offices of the Chamber would work as information and promotion centers of the Greek – Serbian economic relations. What caused our impression is that when we informed Serbian businessmen for the financial cooperation framework, they told us that only 3% of the loads transferred to Serbia by sea are served by the port of Thessaloniki. One of our goals by the end of this year is to create the membership card, the holder of which will have a discount on prices on many services such as hotels, shops, etc.”

The following days, the Chamber delegation visited industrial units of food production and building materials and a university.

 

With honor,

The President

Kostas Georgakos

 

Press Release 27.05.2015

Date: 27/05/2015

PRESS RELEASE

The President of the City Council of Jagontina granted two hectares of land in Greek – Serbian Chamber of Greece for business investments.

The actions of the administration of the Greek – Serbian Chamber of Greece continue unabated in order to create a new economic framework and the right circumstances for business cooperation between the two countries. It is very important the great interest that have shown the government of Serbia, representatives of local authorities and Serbian businessmen and this is evidenced by the dozens of requests to visit our country and to become members of the Chamber.

Within this context, the President of the City Council of Jagontina, Dragan Markovic, visited Thessaloniki and have a meeting with the administration committee of the Greek – Serbian Chamber. Mr. Markovic showed real interest, giving two hectares of land in the limits of the municipality of Jagontina in Greek – Serbian Chamber. This land will be given to Greek companies wishing to do business in Serbia. The area is located next to the international road ten so that access is appropriate. Also, Mr. Markovic pointed out that the municipality will provide all required infrastructure such as electricity, water, gas, sewage system and other social utility services.

Worth noting, that the Municipality of Jagontina covers all costs for three thousands residents in order to take holidays in North Greece free of charge.

The mission of the municipality of Jagontina was populous, as the President was followed by dozens of Serbian businessmen, all national television stations in Serbia, and the channel “Palma Plus”, whose owner is Mr. Markovic. The enormous interest for Greece proved not only from the business proposal of Mr. Markovic, but also from the number of the Serbian delegation that visit our country.

The President of the Greek – Serbian Chamber of Greece, Mr. Kostas Georgakos after the meeting mentioned the following, “the populous mission of municipality of Jagontina proves the good climate that exists between the two countries. Our role is to leverage the good climate and create an investment environment that will bring business deals for our country in order to come substantial growth in Greece. We are very happy that the interest of Serbia is so big. After all, we are given the opportunity to lay foundations to the development of our country. ”

 

With honor,

The President

Kostas Georgakos

 

Meeting between the President of President of Greek – Serbian Chamber of Greece and the President of Chamber of Florina.