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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 — E-commerce turnover is expected to triple totaling 15 billion euros in 2020, helped by the pandemic crisis, but this growth is not equally distributed, the Institute for Small- and Medium-Sized enterprises of the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship said in a survey released on Monday.
The survey, conducted on the occasion of the Black Friday, said that “Undoubtedly, large retail players have been mostly favoured by the impressive increase in e-commerce. On the other hand, smaller enterprises record a significant gap in comparison with larger enterprises, however they manage to find ways to respond to this challenge”.
More than 70 pct of smaller enteprises have Internet access, a 36 pct have an active web page and more than 55 pct an active page on social media, the survey said. The survey was conducted on a sample of 500 enterprises in the retail commerce in the period November 16-25.
The survey showed that a 70 pct of enterprises were more willing to invest on digital transformation because of the lockdown, a 59% reported an increase in sales in comparison with the previous year, while the majority of them recorded a slightly increase. A 74 pct of stores reported an increase in the number of visitors on their websites, with only 11 pct of them reporting a strong growth. A 43 pct of enterprises have made marketing moves on Facebook or other sites.
A 79 pct of enterprises did not participate in the Black Friday event. From those that did, a 49 pct used social media and the corporate website (31 pct), while others used newsletters (20 pct) and sms (17 pct).
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.