ALEX ATHANASSOULAS
19. 07. 2022
GEORGE SAGONAS
20. 07. 2022
MEET
HARRY AKZOTIS
GENERAL MANAGER OF PEGASOS
Email: [email protected]
SHORT BIO
HARRY is the Chairman and General Manager of Pegasos SA. He is a global sales and marketing professional, second-generation business owner with ten years working experience in the FMCG industry across Greece, Germany, UK and other European countries.
Harry has a bachelor’s degree from Athens University of Economics and Business and MBA studies in Boston with placements in Shanghai and San Francisco. He has a multi-departmental background having led Greek FMCG distribution family business. Also, he has set strategy and restructured corporate operations achieving record economic results. Pegasos SA has been growing by a CAGR of approx. 20% the last five years.
He speaks Native Greek, fluent English, and German.
CURRENT POSITION
As Chairman and General Manager of Pegasos SA, Harry oversees a workforce of almost hundred associates, a salesforce that maintains relationships with more than 12.000 retail stores from the smallest ones to the largest national retailers and a dozen of principals which are renowned international and national companies. Personal and corporate achievements:
- Pegasos has been growing by a CAGR of approx. 20% the last five years.
- In 2017 Haribo gummies became the No. 1 candy brand in Greece in volume.
- It has been awarded a “Diamonds of the Greek Economy 2019” award for its financial performance.
- Its brand Corny was voted by Greek consumers as Product of the Year 2020 in the cereal bar category.
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Moments in action
PROUD PART OF
Pegasus
Pegasus
Pegasos undertakes commercial representation of global and national brands, offering nationwide integrated commercial services: Logistics, Sales and Marketing. Its primary goal is to successfully establish the brands it manages. It operates a salesforce that visits all stores of national grocers as well as 300 wholesale companies. However its distinctive characteristic is its van-sales system that visits more than 10.000 traditional trade stores throughout the country, 6.000 of which are invoiced and micro-delivered directly.
