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Here we are at a very nice booth at the exhibition, MAILON
And we have the honor and pleasure to have with us Mr. Milonas
How are you?
Very good. Hello Mr. Batsara to you too and welcome
and as always we hope that you'll give some 'color' and positive energy to our exhibition
- As always, like every year -Your presence here is definitely positive -Thank you very much Mr Milonas
35th Internation Fur Fair of Kastoria, what is your opinion so far?
Very good, the whole exhibition is upgraded
of course its too soon to talk about business and sales (the interview was done at the first days of the exhibition)
however it seems from every aspect that the exhibition will be a Success
the Fur Association has done a great job organising it no question about it
its to their honor of course and I hope they will continue at the same pace, with the same intensity and rhythm, so that each year it will be better
No Gala (catwalk) this year, what do you have to say about it?
I would say that its their choice and I'm sure they got some good reasons for it
What do you think of the Fur business in general? How is it going, not only at this exhibition?
Its well known that we have our economical problems as a country
Its also known that globally things are getting tough
however I would say that we furriers are not that affected from what is happening here in Greece
you know what I mean... the IMF( International Monetary Fund) etc
we hope and believe that we will do better because we are mainly exporting our goods
so we do not focus on the local and internal market
of course we do not overlook that part of the market
but the biggest market for us is abroad
should we move the exhibition to Athens as well?
Kastoria IS the fur center and we must protect Kastoria
but we should make a move there also and show them our goods
of course, we could make a try
I spoke to Mrs Kontou yesterday and we talked about making a Fur Salon in Athens...
a lot of thing can be done, but lets just not Divide and Conquer
if we give the proper attention here, the travel distance to Athens is really small
with the good road and air connection, its really an easy task for someone to come from Athens or Thessaloniki to Kastoria
are you all furriers united?
at this era, we are more united than ever
not that that we have reached perfection or anything like that...
having two Fur Associations is not a bad thing, but there must be some understanding and cooperation between them and fellow feelings...
for us... what I'll say might sound a little far fetched...
but for us Furriers the crisis could turn to a good thing
irrelevantly to the crisis we are facing here in Greece as a country
it should not come as a surprise if we have a very good season ahead of us
..all this waste of money that we as citizens and businessmen witnessed for all those years
our politicians turned a blind eye on it
I do believe that they deluded themselves, how else could not they see all these wrongs?
and to my grief this is the reason we ended up at this situation
now its totally up to us to help, give a hand and push things to get out of this situation as soon as possible
this booth, and this enterprise (MAILON) is of my sons, I am not actually involved in anything anymore
we wish you always to be strong and contribute to Fur
Thank you too for honoring me with this interview, I can buy you dinner tonight
only if you promise to me that you will buy me one too at Thessaloniki
we will buy you two dinners at Thessaloniki, one for food only and one for a night out
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