Industries
Experience that carries from one sector to the next
The investment logic is common; the facts of each sector are not. Our experience covers businesses of very different size and profile, from small retailers to hotel properties and multi-partner consortia.
Tourism & Hospitality
From new hospitality developments to the modernisation of established businesses, we combine strategy, funding, investment planning and implementation support.
A hotel investment is among the most demanding a Greek business will undertake. Capital is locked up for years, revenue is sharply seasonal, permitting is complex, and the delivery window closes when the season opens. A financial model that does not carry seasonality, month-by-month occupancy and a realistic average rate is not a model.
We work on both sides: the commercial positioning of the property — category, room mix, distribution channels, target market — and the investment documentation that the Development Law or the relevant programme demands. Knowledge of the Ionian market adds something here that generic benchmarks do not replace.
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Manufacturing & Industry
In manufacturing an investment answers to two independent reviewers: the production line and the programme evaluator. BC&T builds the case for both.
An equipment investment is not simply the purchase of a machine. It changes capacity, unit cost, staffing requirements and often the layout of production itself. The documentation has to show how the new line performs, not merely what it costs.
At the same time, smart manufacturing — automation, connected machinery, production data — has become a core criterion in several funding instruments. We design the investment so that the technology content is both genuine and recognisable to the evaluator.
Related services: Funding & Investment Digital & Green Transformation Strategy & Business Advisory
Retail & E-commerce
Retail accounts for the largest number of projects in our portfolio — and it is the sector where the gap between having an online shop and selling through it is widest.
Investments in digital channels are assessed on commercial criteria: traffic, conversion rate, average order value, customer acquisition cost and cost to serve. Without those numbers, a platform is simply an expense.
At the same time, modernising the physical store, the stock systems and supplier connectivity determines whether the online channel is profitable or merely busy. We work on both.
Related services: Digital & Green Transformation Funding & Investment Strategy & Business Advisory
SMEs & Family Businesses
Small and medium-sized family businesses are the core of the Greek economy and the larger part of our client base. Advisory work here has to be practical rather than institutional.
In a family business, decisions about investment, funding, roles and succession are usually connected. An investment plan that ignores who will run it, or who will lead the business in five years, is unfinished.
We work with the owner rather than over them: clear financials, realistic priorities, funding sized to the business, and enough structure to let it grow without depending on one person.
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Innovation, Research & Collaborative Projects
Collaborative projects are technically the most demanding: multiple partners, a divided budget, distinct deliverables, and one entity carrying responsibility to the funding authority.
Our experience includes partnerships between businesses and research and knowledge-dissemination organisations under the Ionian Islands smart-specialisation strategy (RIS3), together with the structuring of value chains and business networks.
In these projects the work is not only technical, it is institutional: agreements between partners, allocation of rights and obligations, realistic schedules, and a project-governance structure that still works when partners have different priorities.
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Public Sector & Regional Development
The experience of the people behind BC&T covers the public side as well: bodies that plan, fund and deliver development projects.
The requirements here are different. Documentation has to withstand administrative and financial audit, timetables are set by institutional milestones, and success is measured in absorption and development impact rather than profit.
Knowing both sides — private and public — is a practical advantage. It allows projects to be designed so that they make sense for the local economy while still moving within the rules of the programme.
Related services: Funding & Investment Strategy & Business Advisory
Digital & Green Economy
Digital and green transformation is not a sector. It is the horizontal dimension that runs through every investment being planned today.
A hotel upgrading its envelope, a factory connecting its production lines and a shop opening an online channel are solving different problems with the same logic: cost, data, return.
Meanwhile, digital and green criteria have been built into most funding instruments. An investment plan that treats them as a box-ticking requirement loses marks; one that embeds them properly wins on both evaluation and operation.
Related services: Digital & Green Transformation Funding & Investment
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