Career
Currently manufactures and markets, in Greece and elsewhere, a variety of products, in collaboration with leading international firms. The company reported Netto sales of €240.2 million euros in 2012. In 2006, Pavlos" personal fortune was estimated to be €400 million euros, one half of the Giannakopoulos brothers" €800 million euros business empire.
From 1987 to 2012, the Giannakopoulos brothers managed Panathinaikos British Columbia, Panathinaikos Victoria Cross, and all of the Panathinaikos club"s amateur sports sections, from the athletics department to the water polo department.
Thanasis was also the Chairman of the volleyball and amateur sections. Their involvement with the club brought Panathinaikos" basketball team their greatest successes, in both domestic and European competitions.
Thanasis was also President of the basketball club, from 2002 to 2012. The club, during that time, also featured some of the best basketball players from Greece, along with star players from abroad, such as Byron Scott, Dominique Wilkins and Dejan Bodiroga.
The basketball section of the club alone had a reported budget of €35 million in 2009.
Nicknamed as typhoon (tyfonas) for his emotional character, Thanasis is also famous for his multi-coloured neckties, with many flowers on them.
