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Greece United Kingdom: $2.9 billion: Mining, commodities (owns 3% Glencore), banking (owns 5% Piraeus Bank) 3: 1163: Philip Niarchos Greece France: $2.8 billion: Art collection (Stavros Niarchos Foundation) 4: 2128: Vardis Vardinoyannis & Family Greece: $1.4 billion: Oil and gas (Motor Oil Hellas and Vegas Oil and Gas), owns Star Channel and ...
The name of Greece differs in Greek compared with the names used for the country in other languages and cultures, just like the names of the Greeks.The ancient and modern name of the country is Hellas or Hellada (Greek: Ελλάς, Ελλάδα; in polytonic: Ἑλλάς, Ἑλλάδα), and its official name is the Hellenic Republic, Helliniki Dimokratia (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία ...
The first people speaking an ancient Proto-Greek language entered mainland Greece during the Neolithic period or the Bronze Age. [6] From the Ancient Greek dialects as they presented themselves centuries later, it seems that at least two migrations of Greeks occurred overall, the first of the Ionians and the Aeolians probably in the 19th ...
Website. www.avis-europe.com. Avis Europe plc is a United Kingdom-based company which holds the licence to operate the two main vehicle rental brands of Avis Budget Group ( Avis Rent a Car System and Budget Rent a Car) in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as Asia in the case of Avis. In 2011 it was acquired by Avis Budget Group .
Hellas Planitia / ˈ h ɛ l ə s p l ə ˈ n ɪ ʃ i ə / is a plain located within the huge, roughly circular impact basin Hellas [a] located in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars. [3] Hellas is the third- or fourth-largest known impact crater in the Solar System .
History. Motor Oil Hellas was founded on May 7, 1970, by Vardis Vardinogiannis and Georgios Paraschos Aleksandridis. It is headquartered in Marousi, Greece. [2] Since 1972 Vardis J. Vardinoyannis has been chairman and managing director. [1] The company has over 2,000 employees. [2] Despite the Greek crisis in 2015, the company had thrived.
WIND Hellas (formerly TELESTET Hellas and later also TIM Hellas) was a Greek integrated telecommunications provider with headquarters in Athens, Greece. As of September 2010, WIND was the third largest mobile operator in Greece (after Cosmote and Vodafone ) with more than 4.4 million active subscribers. [ 2 ]
The company was founded in 1946 with three cars at Willow Run Airport, [ 10] Ypsilanti, Michigan, by Warren Avis (August 4, 1915 – April 24, 2007). [ 8] It established branch operations across the United States over the next few years, becoming the second largest car rental company in the country by 1953. By its tenth anniversary in 1956 it ...