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 In the collection of these overall qualitative data, the type that used was interview with company experts. After time limitations and due to Covid 19 pandemic regulations and restrictions, the interviews were made via video calls in zoom and some of the interviews held with messages in social media with several questions to identify all the governmental, legal, and some other barriers that Greek food &beverages Small and Medium Businesses face, including some questions aboutfinancial and tax barriers. In these interviews there were also held some final questions which include prepositions and solutions about these barriers.  The interview held to several businessmen who havecompanies in the food & beverages section and middle managers in many of these companies were targeted with different kind of companies including food, dairy, and beverage-based product companies and some alcohol-spirit companies which export several Greek alcohol spirits and beverages across Europe and globally. The overall collection of these data took place from the beginning of February till the end of March in 2022. The interview included questions based on the export size of companies’ products, which institutional barriers these companies face and some questions about the other barriers that affect the process in exporting. The possible data which would be aimedto begathered from the researcher was a sample data of 30 differentcompanies but due to all surveys that were not fully answered or ignored only a result of almost 34%of companies’ representatives (approximately 10 companies) were interpreted in the whole research. Although there is a small data sample, thetrustworthiness of the overall method is verified. All of the interviews recorded and kept as data (especially the messages from social media), with the allowance of the correspondents in order to conduct the results and the recommendations from this research.
Греческие компании, занимающиеся производством и экспортом алкогольных напитков и продуктов питания, сталкиваются с различными барьерами при экспорте в Европу и глобально. Об этом говорится в исследовании, проведенном по заказу Европейской комиссии.