The Hellenic Radio (ERA): News in English, 08-03-15

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From: The Hellenic Radio (ERA) <www.ert.gr/>

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[01] Consumers International

Sources: ANA, MNA

Consumers briefing and protection of their rights is for the Greek state the top priority according to Minister of Development Mr. Christos Folias, Deputy Minister Mr. Giorgos Valhos, General Secretary of Consumers Mr. Giannis Oikonomou and General Secretary of Commerce Mr. Dimitris Skiadas. This priority is being materialized through actions, controls, fines, constant briefing and a communicative line build with citizens-consumers.

They stress that "better protection for the consumer means bigger financial development" and point out that "the creation of a consuming awareness is the positive answer that consumers can give to the challenges and the hardship of our times".

Ministry of Development and General Secretary of Consumers officially announced that within the framework of Consumers International they organize a distribution of informative leaflets in the center of Athens and Piraeus entitled" Search a little bit first". This leaflet refers to the basic principles regarding citizens-buying and their consuming rights.

Research on Consuming Behavior of Greeks

"Arisitidis Daskalopoulos" Foundation brings new evidence on the preferences of Greek consumers which shows that half of people asked are really briefed about what they are buying.

There is a small rate on the consumers who react when the product they have bought or are about to buy has a certain problem. More specifically, 4 out of ten questioned proceed to complaints or return the product they bought. 36% do not buy the product again, 14% phones to the products company to complain while 14% do not react.

As per the preferences for Greek and imported products, 9 out of ten prefer Greek products. On reference to quality and safety rules, local products come first gaining 66,5% of consumers who consider these products very safe. Products of big companies are preferred too (51%) in contrast with smaller companies products (30%).

Translated by Sofia Gartziou

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