The company held its New Year’s cake-cutting ceremony

A new chapter of growth is opening in 2026 for Thessaloniki International Fair, both on the front of the redevelopment project and in its exhibition activity benefiting the company as well as Thessaloniki and Northern Greece. As highlighted during today’s event for the traditional New Year’s cake-cutting ceremony of TIF and its employees, the new year also marks the 100th anniversary of the first Thessaloniki International Fair in 1926.

“We have an ambitious goal, and that is the redevelopment. What I want to reassure everyone is that we have all the necessary tools to achieve this goal. What matters to us, however, is teamwork and participation. After all, this will not be the work of one person, but the work of all of us. It will change not only the company and the city, but the entire country,” emphasized the President of TIF, Mr. Christos Tsentemeidis, noting that 2026 will be a year of action. He also underlined the need for the local community to become part of this endeavor and pointed out that teamwork is key not only for the redevelopment project, but also for improving the company’s strategy regarding its exhibition and congress activities. “For the people of Northern Greece, TIF is more than a company, for many of us, it is a part of our lives,” he stressed.

Highlighting the historic significance of TIF, as well as its determination to look to the future, the company’s CEO, Dr. Kyriakos Pozrikidis, also referred to the 100 years that have been completed this year since the first Thessaloniki International Fair.

At the beginning of the event, the Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, Mr. Philotheos, officiated a blessing service, wishing for the advancement of the work carried out in recent years at TIF, so that good deeds may be revealed, as he said, as acts of kindness, and that the entire city may be promoted through them.

“The Fair is important for Thessaloniki, for all of Macedonia, and we are pleased because we look forward to its further development, for the benefit of the whole city and of the entire homeland,” he noted.

In his address, the Deputy Minister of the Interior (Macedonia–Thrace), Mr. Kostas Gioulekas, pointed out that the Fair is not merely the country’s only national exhibition institution, nor only TIF itself, but the Fair of Thessaloniki and it is inextricably linked to this city.

The long-standing support of the Region of Central Macedonia for TIF was emphasized by the Regional Governor, Mrs. Athina Aidona, who noted that “We must all work together to achieve the redevelopment.”

The President of the TIF Employees’ Association, Mr. Panagiotis Chatziioannou, described 2026 as a year of challenges, creativity, opportunities, and optimism, stressing the great bet of the redevelopment at its historic site. “We are ready to stand up to challenges and turn them into opportunities,” he said.

Greetings were also delivered by Member of Parliament for Thessaloniki B’ (New Democracy), Mr. Theodoros Karaoglou, Member of Parliament for Thessaloniki A’ (PASOK), Mrs. Rania Thraskia, and Member of Parliament for Thessaloniki B’ (KKE), Mr. Leonidas Stoltidis.