Franchise blog

For a number of years in entrepreneurship-resisting Greece there have been various kinds of success stories. Stories of entrepreneurial success in other words behind which lie toiling, struggles and effort. Along with everything else, the crisis of course also changed this. Companies which did not really invest in progress, formations which remained in the luster of communication without deepening in infrastructure, individuals who opted for all sorts of conveniences collapsed, and with them collapsed the myth of a Greece which didn’t exist.

In contrast however to the above, there was also another Greece. The land of real-but unfortunately in the minority-production and innovation. It is those people who without fanfare and fireworks work hard amid the crisis to achieve their own ‘miracle’, growth.

I therefore feel the need to comment favorably on the effect made by the GRAPSA Educational Group which these last two years has added 10 new school outlets with new franchisees to its team of partners, in a sector that the crisis has highlighted as being essential. And I am referring to foreign-language learning for adults. A sector necessary and crucial, as the acquisition of knowledge in Greece during the crisis simultaneously means acquisition of skills useful in seeking employment. Nobody should forget that Greece belongs in the so-called ‘world village’, with whatever that entails. 

So when the dust from the crisis settles, the GRAPSA Educational Group will be gazing into the future with even greater force, with a dynamic that draws from the present and justifies its effort. For this reason the people of this particular corporation deserve to be congratulated.

Mr. D. Markopoulos is a contributor to the newspaper ‘Proto Thema’, the financial website newmoney.gr and other newspapers and sites.