Following our expectations that in the year the ongoing high unemployment and taxation of individuals and legal entities but also due to the weakness of the banking system to provide capital for new investments, as well as the fact that the risk of a new recession cycle has not been eliminated, the Group’s Management aims: to maintain and increase its profitability to which it has returned since 2015 to the continuation of strictly selected investments, especially in the segment of retail trading of sporting goods where investing opportunities exist and can be implemented with the current funding abilities to gain benefits from synergies and economies of scale that have been achieved within the Group, especially after the absorption of the company FOURLIS TRADE SA from the company HOUSEMARKET SA and the completion of warehouse and distribution services supply towards all companies of the Group from the company TRADE LOGISTICS S.A. to the research of new investment opportunities in areas of activity such as the management of retail stores that the Group is well aware of and has positive results and to maintain the balance of income source of the Group between domestic and abroad companies for the rational allocation of the political-economic risk in the various countries of operation.