"Returning to 1984 purchasing power levels, 1998 employment levels and 1999
salary levels will not help Greece's economy in 2013," said Vassilis
Korkidis, chairman of the National Confederation of Hellenic Commerce (Esee).
The association, representing a sector which employs nearly 18pc of the Greek
workforce, presented an annual study forecasting a further drop in sales and
job cuts in an economy where the unemployment rate currently exceeds 25pc.
More than 40pc of limited liability companies and 70.6pc of general and
limited partnerships expect a fall in sales, and one in three businesses in
both categories expects to shed workers next year, the report showed.
"If this situation continues, the trader sector... will be threatened with
annihilation," Mr Korkidis said.
"The recipe of successive (fiscal overhauls) appears to have failed," he said.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9688711/Greek-companies-face-annihilation-amid-debt-crisis.html
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9688711/Greek-companies-face-annihilation-amid-debt-crisis.html
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