Brief history
Kastaniotis Editions S.A was established in 1968 by Athanassios Kastaniotis, who is today the Chairman and Managing Director of the Publishing Company. The constant search for new methods of improving the quality of book publishing and electronic application, as well as the implementation of modern means of sales promotion, compose all these years the stable development axis of the Company. The wide range and the quality of our books have managed to win the preference of a large and demanding audience.
Up to date our publishing house conprises 5000 titles covering among others areas such as:
- Greek Contemporary and Foreign Literature
- Children's and Young Adults literature
- Classic Authors
- Psychiatry
- Politics
- Travelling guides
- Theatre
- Poetry
- Essays
- Educational
- Art Books
- Multimedia CD-ROM
Our list is extremely popular in the local market due to a fine selection of titles combined with high quality of translation even from the most demanding languages, e.g hebrew, arabic, chinese, japanese
Scope of activities
The Company operates in the publishing field and specifically in the sub sector of book publishing. More explicitly, the basic entrepreneurial activities of the Company as mentioned in the Articles of Operation of the Athanassios A. Kastaniotis S.A. are the following:
- The publication, production and trading of all kinds of printed material, apart from newspapers, magazines and Greek of Foreign books of any nature.
- The creation, production and trading of video - tapes and computer discs, as well as general consumable PC material.
- The production, publication, distribution and trading of electronic books and all kinds of applications using multimedia technology, in CD-ROM, CD-I, DVD, PHOTO CD, 3DO, Video CD.
- The production and publication, the distribution and trading of multimedia titles, multimedia applications and any other kind of content in digital form, as well as the distribution and trading of books via the Internet.
ISO 9001
Kastaniotis Editions have acquired the ISO 9001 Quality Procedure System for the totality of their administrative, production and trading activities.
After more than 40 year of presence, Kastaniotis Editions S.A has published nearly 5.000 titles and for more than a decade it has been the most productive publishing house in Greece in the annual production of new titles. Our house has become truly indispensable to every local bookseller and our books can be found in the home of every book-lover.