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”.

When Greek (mini) multinationals were leading the pack in the Balkans and the Black Sea

Whenever there is talk of foreign investment (especially of FDI) in Greece, it used to be self-evident that one referred to inward FDI of which the country was always sorely in need. The same goes now that Greece feels starved of capital after a decade-long experience of successive Stabilisation Programmes and the capital destruction they brought about – which has to be built back.

There was, nonetheless, a time when Greek companies felt emboldened enough to engage in their own schemes of outward investments – mainly in the Balkans and Black Sea countries, exporting the dynamism of a Greek economy that was reaching out to the Euro area. Bob McDonald tracked this movement for the September 1998 Business File.