Saracakis

Type	Publicly traded
ISIN	🆔
Industry	Manufacturing, Retail, Wholesale
Founded 📆	1922
Founder 👔
Headquarters 🏙️	Athens, Greece
Area served 🗺️
Products 📟	Cars, Trucks, Buses, Diesel Generators, Spare parts
Members
Number of employees	550 (end 2022)
🌐 Website	www.saracakis.gr
📇 Address
📞 telephone

Saracakis Group of companies is a major Greek commercial and industrial group, for two decades a traditional competitor to Biamax (between themselves the two companies virtually dominated the bus market in Greece). Two of the most talented Greek vehicle engineers who had worked for Biamax, A. Rizos and I. Dracoulis also worked for Saracakis, Dracoulis having designed the company's characteristic, recognizable 'Σ' logo.

History

In 1922, Mr. John D. Saracakis established Saracakis Group of Companies in the city of Thessaloniki and the company started importing and selling vehicles and vehicle parts.

Present situation

Saracakis survived the storm of the early 1980s (opening of the market to used imports) that almost wiped out the Greek commercial vehicle industry, but its import and trading sectors became predominant. Construction of complete vehicles and other production activities has stopped. The company is the official importer and distributor for the Greek market of Honda motorcycles and cars, Mitsubishi Motors, Volvo Trucks and Bus, Komatsu, Volvo Penta, Volvo construction equipment, Kumho tyres, SDMO, Infinity, Titan, Apollo tyres and Massey Ferguson agricultural machinery.

File:Saracakis atrotos.jpg

The Saracakis Atrotos (2002) with its body featuring the company's "stainless steel technique" was Saracakis's last original creation; it used imported Volvo (rather than company's own) chassis.

References

• L.S. Skartsis and G.A. Avramidis, 'Made in Greece', Typorama, Patras, Greece (2003).
• L.S. Skartsis, "Greek Vehicle & Machine Manufacturers 1800 to present: A Pictorial History", Marathon (2012) ISBN 978-960-93-4452-4 Search this book on . (eBook)

External links

• http://www.saracakis.gr
• http://www.saracakis.bg
• Bus manufacturers (in Danish)
• Greek bus builders in Bus-planet.com

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