Empowering small businesses in Greece

The EBRD has delivered over 220 tailor-made advisory projects through its Advice for Small Businesses (ASB) programme in Greece. These projects have helped small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to improve in areas such as marketing, strategy, exports and operations, enabling them to grow sustainably and seize new opportunities.

Three SMEs featured in the video include:

• e-Fresh.gr, Greece’s first online supermarket, which modernised its website and developed a new business plan
• DP Pumps, a leading pump manufacturer that improved its production operations
• Keyvoto, a tech startup supported by the EBRD Star Venture programme, which is dedicated to promising start-ups.

The EBRD has also organised business seminars and activities benefiting more than 1,000 entrepreneurs, while supporting the capital market through free analyst coverage for nine listed companies and helping an SME prepare for listing on the Athens Stock Exchange.

These ASB projects have received donor support from Greece, and the TaiwanBusiness-EBRD Technical Cooperation Fund under the Small Business Impact Fund (SBIF). The SBIF is also backed by Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America).