{"id":166462,"date":"2020-05-27T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/podcast-in-conversation-nikolas-minoglou-co-founder-ancient-greek-sandals\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:05:53","slug":"podcast-in-conversation-nikolas-minoglou-co-founder-ancient-greek-sandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/podcast-in-conversation-nikolas-minoglou-co-founder-ancient-greek-sandals\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Nikolas Minoglou, Co-founder, Ancient Greek Sandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Welcome to the latest episode of our Podcast series<\/strong> '<strong>In Conversation<\/strong>' where we bring you\u00a0<strong>inspiring stories, retail insights and conversation from fashion's most influential business leaders.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-3933134\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/991828\/3933134-in-conversation-with-nikolas-monoglou-co-founder-of-ancient-greek-sandals.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-3933134&player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/theindustry-fashion-podcast-in-conversation\/id1508914290\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-141774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-04-23-at-09.41.45-300x74.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"37\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/13J2FpG7X8AH9Ioi0bVxW8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-141777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spotify_Logo_RGB_Black-300x90.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"34\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this week's episode, TheIndustry.fashion Editor in Chief Lauretta Roberts speaks to the<strong> Co-founder of Ancient Greek Sandals Nikolas Minoglou.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ancient\u00a0Greek\u00a0Sandals has been successful from its\u00a0debut season, positioning\u00a0itself\u00a0in well-respected stores such as\u00a0Le Bon Marche,\u00a0Mytheresa, Net-a-Porter, MatchesFashion and Harvey Nichols\u00a0to name a few. Since launch,\u00a0Ancient\u00a0Greek\u00a0Sandals has experienced steady growth each season, and is now selling in\u00a0over 350 points of sale, in more than 55 countries.<\/p>\n<p>While studying in the USA, Nikolas noticed several of his female friends would return from holidays in\u00a0Greece\u00a0with two things; olive oil and traditional\u00a0Greek\u00a0leather sandals. His idea was to take the\u00a0Greek\u00a0sandal one finds on the\u00a0Greek\u00a0islands,\u00a0elevate the design and quality\u00a0and sell them to consumers outside of\u00a0Greece<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Nikolas speaks to us about his family's footwear heritage, his entrepreneurial spirit and what it takes to succeed in the face of adversity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-143209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-05-27-at-10.45.39.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1984\" height=\"830\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">To be the first to know when more episodes of our Podcast series go live, subscribe to our daily newsletter <\/span><a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/subscribe-now\/?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_campaign=insight_button&amp;utm_content=insight_button_0719\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Podcast series is staged in proud partnership with<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-141519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-02-17-at-17.34.44-1-300x82.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"65\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":138648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,9763,5,9762,6,7,10494],"tags":[19778,19780,19777,16206],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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