{"id":6739,"date":"2020-12-12T09:34:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T07:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/news\/employees-bid-farewell-to-company-founder\/"},"modified":"2020-12-12T09:37:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T07:37:36","slug":"employees-bid-farewell-to-company-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/en\/news\/employees-bid-farewell-to-company-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotronis Packaging Employees Bid Farewell to Company Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with profound sadness that we bid farewell to the founder of Kotronis Packaging, <strong>Konstantinos Kotronis<\/strong>, who is no longer with us. He passed away at the age of 86 on Sunday, 6 December 2020, surrounded by his family.<\/p>\n<p>Konstantinos Kotronis was born in Artotina in 1934. He was the third child of the family of <strong>Ioannis<\/strong> and <strong>Vasiliki Kotronis<\/strong>. In 1947, his family moved to Nafpaktos, following the course of the rest of the Artotines who moved to other towns. To support his family financially, he worked as a street seller of cigarettes, sweets, and simit. At the same time, urged by an old street seller, he learned the art of making sesame seed candy, using a pot at home to make his first bar. In the late 50&#8217;s, he left for Athens in search of something better. There, he continued producing and selling sesame seed candy, which sold out immediately. He now employed 25 people and was looking for a new space, but also a new method of candy preparation, as until then his mother was the one who sifted sesame in the old traditional way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with profound sadness that we bid farewell to the founder of Kotronis Packaging, Konstantinos Kotronis, who is no longer with us. He passed away at the age of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6742,"href":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions\/6742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kotronis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}