Spyros Theodoropoulos: It is preparing to enter the Stock Exchange

Of George Lampiris

In his vision for the creation of a large food group where collaborations will be created, with the first phase to be completed soon, with the creation of collaborations between the companies he has acquired and immediately after entering the Stock Exchange, Spyros Theodoropoulos mentioned from his podium Delphi Economic Forum.

“Soon a first phase will be completed, collaborations will be created. After the first phase is completed there will be a second phase that will further strengthen my plan. The goal is to step on the visions of the 1980s with the creation of national champions. The horizon for “What we have planned spans a decade,” said the businessman.

Regarding the business landscape in Greece, he noted that “nothing should stop an entrepreneur from the goal he has set. Appropriate adjustments are needed depending on the circumstances. Politics can not dominate the economy. I have been on the board for many years. “We celebrated the 100th anniversary on the Stock Exchange, which shows the duration. All businesses when well managed are timeless. You have to keep going.”

He said that everything in business has to do with where one sees the duration of his company and stressed that appropriate adjustments are needed in between.

He noted that most of the business class is healthy. But it does not cease to be part of society. “You will find good, bad, less bad,” he noted.

Much of the economy and construction is ‘black’

He expressed the belief that there are cases of companies that have learned from the financial crisis. He also referred to the fact that there are professions that are not sanitized, as they continue to contain a large part of the “black” economy. “Today there are professions such as catering or construction that are not sanitized, as a large part of the economy is black. If we leave these two classes, I think most of the economy is moving in the right direction. There is a lot of entrepreneurs going international. But at the same time, I noticed the example of Mr. Karoni of Viva Wallet who had this big acquisition in his business. I see a Greece that has learned to move globally. We create, we have very nice ideas. “Young people show a willingness to make a startup and that shows health, that they are not afraid of international competition.”

Commenting on his relationship with current politics, the government, the opposition, the media, Mr. Theodoropoulos said he would not get involved in politics, saying “I am good at football and if I play basketball, I think I will not succeed. With anyone “He who has a power has a greater responsibility. I try to return to society from what I said and this country gave me. I try to be closer to politics in the broadest sense and in the sense of service to the people.”

“When someone wants to work beyond eight hours we can not forbid him”

Regarding the deregulation of the market and the new conditions that are emerging in the labor sector, he argued that there are companies that are moving within the new economy, where the eight-hour period has collapsed and now when one wants to work beyond the eight-hour period, we can not forbid it. He referred, on the other hand, to the pressure of very low incomes, especially in small businesses where, for example, stamps are not paid or other basic conditions provided by law are not met.

He also said that traditional trade unionists consider the faithful observance of the eight-hour period as a regulation of labor relations or if someone stays ten minutes beyond his overtime hours, it is considered reprehensible. “If we go to different forms of business, in the new economy we talked about earlier and hear that people work 40 hours a week, they will laugh. There are areas of society that have outgrown these models.”

“By this logic, companies that work in the new economy are illegal because they work freely, outside of 40 hours, from their homes. It is not obligatory to go and click on a card, to see the hours to count them. It is not possible to turn it around. “There is also someone who wants to work more hours and have a higher salary,” he added.

“We need regulation in terms of very low incomes”

On the other hand, he referred to the fact that on the part of the employees, even if we look at the very low incomes, there is a real need for regulation, because mainly in small companies we have pressure. “In small businesses we are witnessing hearing that they do not give gifts, etc. At the same time there is another distortion, as according to him” there are no employees today because the market is not regulated to meet the needs of the market. Last year, tourism did not cover 50,000 places from its organization chart and this year it will exceed 75,000 places. If you go to restaurants and ask them if there is staff, they will tell you that there is not. “Many restaurants close because they do not have staff.”