By Vasilis Koufopoulos

According to the information, the owner came to an oral agreement for the transfer of the Open TV station Ivan Savvidis and businessman Dimitris Maris.

According to the information, Maris and Savvidis had a discussion a few days ago about the possibility of selling the Open.

From the side of the channel, until this time anyway, the agreement is not confirmed.

Based on their previous cooperation years ago in the publication of the newspaper “Ethnos”, the two sides agreed to move quickly in the change of ownership regime.

Information in the past period wanted Mr. Savvidis wants to divest from the channel.

According to Forbes, the fortune of Ivan Savvidis amounts to 1.4 billion. dollars.

Since 2017, Ivvan Savvidis has been in the Greek media

His involvement with the Greek media began in May 2017, when he bought 19% of the television station Megahowever shortly afterwards he sold his share.

In the same year, the Dimera company, his interests, acquired the group’s newspaper brands Pegasus (until then of the interests of businessman Fotis Bobolas), Nation and Dayas well as the television station Epsilon TV on August 11, 2017, which previously belonged to businessman Filippos Vryonis.

Later, the Epsilon TV channel was upgraded and replaced by Open TV.

In July 2019, it was announced that by his decision the daily circulation of Ethnos will end, with the newspaper remaining exclusively in digital format.

However, the Sunday Nation continued its regular, weekly print run for another year, until August 2020, when it ceased publication.

Ivan Savvidis’ first investment in Greece took place in February 2013, when he officially took over the management of the Thessaloniki hotel Macedonia Pallaswith a monthly rent of 95,000 euros.

In March of the same year, it proceeded to acquire 82% of the tobacco company SECAPbased in Xanthi.

Along with the sale of Donskoy Tabak in 2018 to Japan Tobacco, the 82% of SEKAP it owned was also ceded.

In May 2014, he bought a plot of land in Paliouri, Halkidiki, which included Hotel Xeniawhile in February 2017 the mineral water bottling and trading company also came under his control, Souroti SA.

A few months later, it joined the consortium Deutsche Invest Equity Partners (DIEP), with the group taking 67% of Thessaloniki Port Organization (THA).

In April 2020, an agreement was reached with the Stegou family for the purchase of the iconic hotel Porto Carras with the total price amounting to 205 million euros.

THE Dimitris Maris is an entrepreneur, founder and president of the digital media group 24 MEDIA, maintains domestic media (news247.gr, sport24.gr).