The first issue of Viomichaniki Epitheorissis’ “Industrial Review Special Survey Series” made its debut on December 1991.

A quarterly financial issue in English, containing extensive surveys on individual sectors of the Greek economy, written by Robert McDonald – former correspondent of the BBC and other international media networks & author of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s quarterly Country Report on Greece.

In 1998 it was updated and renamed “Business File Special Survey Series”.

“Real estate: it’s the buzz-word”

The property-owning culture that has prevailed in Greece forever results, in some turn of things or other, in a real estate boom. In the March 2000 Business File, when Greece was in its end-run to the Eurozone, interest rates were tumbling down in anticipation and fueling a building boom, Bob McDonald painted the following picture;