Pouliadis Associates Corporation (Pouliadis kai Synergates AEBE, Πουλιάδης και Συνεργάτες ΑΕΒΕ) is an information technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 company

Company

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 in Greece

Greece

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, once one of the largest in the country but now it faces serious financial turbulence. Its founder was Thanasis Pouliadis

Thanasis Pouliadis

Thanasis Pouliadis was an entrepreneur and founder of the Pouliadis Associates Corporation, which was once one of the largest information technology firms in Greece.The son of a physician, he attended the Harvard Business School's MBA program...

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The company was once supporting the Greek language

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 in Microsoft Windows 3.1 and 3.11, and was importing and selling products of IBM

IBM

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 and other companies. Today it has some revenue

Revenue

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 from support

Technical support

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 contracts.

The company is a shareholder

Shareholder

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 of a major IT company in Turkey

Turkey

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, as well as another IT firm in Greece. Its main creditors are Alpha Bank

Alpha Bank

Alpha Bank is the second largest bank in Greece with 450 branches throughout the country. It also has a subsidiary and branch in London, and branches and subsidiaries throughout the Balkans . Founded in 1879, it has been controlled by the Costopoulos family since the very beginning...

, Marfin, Eurobank EFG, and National Bank of Greece

National Bank of Greece

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, and the company has now reached an agreement for a new 2 million euro

Euro

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loan from the banks to allow it to maintain its activities during its recent economic problems.