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About INVgr - The Business & Investment World of Greece

Launched in December 1998, INVgr is the leading on-line source for timely information and authoritative, English-language business intelligence on investing in and doing business with Greece.

Greek newspapers have voted INVgr the number-one authority in English on investment and business in Greece. Furthermore, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the business information arm of The Economist Group and world leader in country intelligence, lists INVgr among the popular sites for information on investing in Greece.

INVgr's objectives:

• To provide comprehensive, authoritative, on-line, English-language intelligence on the business and investment world of Greece to investors, business people and other stakeholders from around the world on a subscription basis.

• To connect business people in Greece with international investors, partners and other interested parties from overseas.

• To promote Greece as an attractive place to do business and invest.

• To promote and introduce Greek products, services and business interests to INVgr's registered subscribers.

• To be an authoritative Internet vortal that pro-actively contributes to promoting Greece's increasing international presence and corporate activities outside of its domestic market, especially in countries and regions such as China, South-East Europe, Turkey and elsewhere.

• To encourage entrepreneurs, SMEs and multinationals in Greece to invest in the country's human capital, technology, natural heritage (environmental technologies, energy and water conservation), renewable energy sources (RES), organic farming and the community.

• And last, but not least, to publish an up-to-date, comprehensive list of attractive business, investment, franchising, real estate and tourism infrastructure expansion opportunities in Greece for INVgr's registered subscribers.

Access to INVgr's premium content is restricted to registered subscribers. INVgr offers two subscription options:

• Individual subscription:
  This subscription allows you to have unrestricted access to INVgr's premium content. The annual subscription fee for individual users is EUR 177 per user; this includes a unique username and password.

• Corporate subscription:
  [INVgr's corporate subscription benefits]
  The annual subscription fee for corporate subscribers is EUR 1,770.

To obtain a unique INVgr username and password, please register on-line.

Company profiles, sector reports, professional analysis and legal reports are available throughout INVgr's premium-content pages. INVgr publishes on-line information and intelligence on the business and investment world of Greece, including, but not limited to:

OPPORTUNITIES

• Tender opportunities

• Real estate opportunities

• Resort and residential community development and investment opportunities

• Golf resort and real estate development and investment opportunities

• Career opportunities

• Franchising opportunities

• Miscellaneous opportunities (post-Olympic opportunities, sponsorship opportunities, business opportunities, restaurants for sale, partnership opportunities, etc.)

• Tourism infrastructure opportunities (spa/wellness, existing hotels, land for sale with permits to build golf courses, villas, second homes, retirements homes, etc.)

• Career opportunities

INVgr is owned and daily updated by INV International Ltd. of the United Kingdom.

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Special subscription discounts for INVgr's subscribers

INVgr's subscribers may benefit from attractive subscription offers of selected publications, which have been negotiated with well-respected Greek publishers. Here is just one example of such a special offer:

Business File quarterly magazine

Since 1991, a unique series of quarterly reports has been published in parallel with Oikonomiki Viomichaniki Epitheorisi. INV International has negotiated a special discount for INVgr's subscribers with Athens-based Kerkyra Publications Ltd., publishers of Business File. For further information or to receive details on how to subscribe to Business File, please contact INVgr.

Forthcoming Business Files 2007

The Business File Special Survey Series is taking a new tack in 2007. Instead of the wide-ranging sectoral surveys of recent years, we are trying to narrow the focus. Thus Special Survey No. 63 appearing this March, instead of being on the Greek banking sector, deals with Greek regional banking in the Balkans and environs. The idea is to examine in greater detail an aspect of the sector rather providing a general overview of the whole.
Special Survey 64 appearing in June 2007, instead of surveying financial services, will focus on venture capital. In today's globalised market place, traditional Greek industries such as textiles and clothing face intense competition from low wage countries. An effort is being made to develop specialities in high technology and differentiated high-value added products. Such businesses present the prospect of high returns if successful but also have great potential for failure. Banks are often unwilling to take that risk. This is where the venture capitalist comes in to make relatively small, short-term investments that will get such ventures up and running. For assuming such risk, the venture capitalist expects high returns and an agreed early exit strategy. Venture capital is still in its infancy in Greece but it is growing. The players are as yet small but have formed themselves into the Hellenic Venture Capital Association and are expanding both their networks and deal flows. Special survey 64 will look at the financiers, the companies in which they are investing and how this vital sector impacts on the promotion of investments for growth.

Special Survey 65 appearing in October 2007, instead of canvassing the construction sector as a whole, will deal with property development. It will look at the packagers who put together the parcels of land on which contractors construct malls or housing estates or leisure integrated units. It will examine the new banking institutions that are growing up to finance these deals and the listed real estate investments trusts (REITs) in which the developments are then incorporated for further trading based on the success of the revenue streams they generate. It's a phenomenon that is less than a decade old in Greece but growing fast and one which carries great potential for new specialisations in real estate packaging, funding, integrated design and subsequent management.

Special Survey 66 will be our regular Annual Review of the political and economic year. The 2007 review will be particularly timely as it will follow shortly after, or immediately predate, national elections. After three years of being under the EU's excessive deficit procedure, the economy should finally be operating independently of Brussels' strictures. Eurostat should have accepted or rejected the new GDP figures by then. The rush is on to absorb funds that must be spent by the end of 2008 under the third Community Support Framework (2000-2006) while more details should be known about the fourth, the National Strategic Reference Framework (2007 - 2013). There will be an assessment of the constitutional amendment process and the success or failure of the education reform debate - although by the time we appear, the electorate may have decided that for us.

Robert McDonald

Business File is a quarterly, English-language publication each issue of which analyses a different aspect of Greek industry or business. They are independent, editorial surveys of some 30,000 words, researched and prepared by Mr. Robert McDonald, a London-based freelance writer and broadcaster with more than 35 years' experience of Greek public affairs. He is the contributor to the Economist Intelligence Unit's quarterly Country Report: Greece and annual Country Commerce: Greece. He is also the author of the quarterly industrial survey series Business File published in Athens by Kerkyra Publications Ltd.

The exhaustively researched Business File reports examine the legislative context, the current issues, the major players and their policies. The emphasis is on hard fact but there is also interpretation and analyses. Subjects to date have included energy, capital markets, shipping, food, telecommunications and many others. Each survey is published in Greek in the relevant issue of Oikonomiki Viomichaniki Epitheorisi.

Examples of summaries of these unique quarterly Business File Special Surveys that were published in 2004 and 2005 can be found by clicking here:

2007

• March 2007 (no. 62): The next wave: A survey of Greek regional banking

2006

• December 2006 (no. 61): Laying foundations: Seventh annual review

• August 2006 (no. 60): It can't be Christmas every day: A survey of the Greek shipping sector

2005

• December 2005 (no. 58): Swimming upstream, Business File, Special Survey

• October 2005 (no. 57): Bottoms up: A Survey of the Greek Beverages Industry

• June 2005 (no. 56): The efficiency debate: A Special Survey on the provision of private services

• March 2005 (no. 55): That's the way it is in Greece

2004

• March 2004 (no. 51): Going for Gold? The Economics of the Olympics

• June 2004 (no. 52): China Syndrome: A Survey of the Greek Shipping Industry

• October 2004 (no. 53): Taking stock: A Survey of Greek Outward Investment

• December 2004 (no. 54): A Blue Era? Fifth Annual Review of the Greek Economy

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INV International's Matchmaking Day in Serbia and Montenegro

INV International Ltd., in close co-operation with the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce & Industry, organised the INVyu/YCCI Business & Investment Matchmaking Day, which was held at the Hyatt Regency in Belgrade on November 12th, 2002. Companies and organisations from Greece, Russia, Croatia, the United Kingdom and other countries were among the international participants of this business-to-business matchmaking event in Serbia and Montenegro.

Parallel to this successful one-day event, INV International assisted Thessaloniki-based DIPEK - Inter-Balkan and Black Sea Business Centre to organise a company presentation and investment road show in the Serbian capital on behalf of ATHEX-listed Thessaloniki Port Authority SA, which attracted 120 top-level business executives, CEOs, leading investors and entrepreneurs from Serbia and Montenegro.

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INV International supports Olympic Truce

Image courtesy of: IOC

INV International Ltd. fully supports the international Olympic Truce initiative. The idea of the Olympic Truce -- also known as 'Ekechereia' -- dates back to an ancient Hellenic tradition. In keeping with this tradition all hostilities would cease during the Olympic Games. The Olympic Truce was fully respected for twelve centuries of Olympic Games in antiquity.

With the view to promoting, at all times, the institution of the Olympic Truce at selected events during the Greek EU Presidency 2003 with multinational participation, information will be available on this international peace initiative, as well as the possibility of holding special Truce signing ceremonies by leader and personalities wishing to contribute to the spread of this institution. [more...]

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INV International supports the campaign to return the Parthenon Marbles to Athens

INV International Ltd. fully supports the global campaign to return the Parthenon Marbles to Athens by running banners on INVgr and INVbg that are hyperlinked to the Parthenon 2004 Campaign Web site and by providing INVgr's/INVbg's subscribers and Web site visitors with comprehensive information, useful links and interesting quotes on this issue of major national and international importance.

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