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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS — As more and more Greeks turned to supermarket delivery services during COVID-19 lockdowns, and are staying with it, the startup Greek company Pop Market has entered the sector, taking orders on apps and promising 15-minute delivery.
The company, said Tech Crunch, also has thousands of items for selection, including fresh fruits and vegetables but is going up against major Greek and foreign chains, some of which were late to get into offering deliveries.
The seed round, which Pop Market claims is the country’s largest seed raise to date, was led by Global Founders Capital and 468 Capital, the site said, reporting that the company raised $3.5 million in funding.
Despite the growth into the delivery sector, Greece’s food services market is said to be still growing for those who want goods brought to them, investors believing it has remained underserviced.
Pop Market cites data indicating that grocery retail in Greece was valued at 11.3 billion euros ($13.12 billion) but that analysts estimate that only 2 percent of that, some 163.3 million euros ($189.58 million) is online.
Some of that is said to be attributable to a “huge gap” between customer expectations and solutions in the market offer, as a result of poor customer experience (such as long delivery times, high prices and wrong or missing items).
Pop Market said it aims to take advantage of that with faster delivery, competitive prices and better service through a network of so-called city center dark stores – meaning warehouses where customers can’t go.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
ALBANY – New York State Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Senator James Skoufis honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on March 26, welcoming His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, who offered an invocation before the Senate.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".