Consolidated Travel, founded in 1967 in Melbourne by its current Chief Executive Officer Spiros Alysandratos, is the most successful private company owned by a Greek Australian according to The Deal magazine, a business insert publication of the national daily The Australian.
Consolidated Travel, the largest privately owned and operated distributor of airline products in the Antipodes and one of only two consolidators for airlines throughout the country, had a revenue of more than 1 billion dollars according to the 2014 The Deal list and is ranked at number 36, an improvement of 20 positions.
The Georgiou Group from Western Australia, which is involved in the construction industry and had a total revenue of over 600 million dollars is ranked 61st. The Georgiou Group in 2013 was ranked 137th.
Paspaley Pearls from the Northern Territory had a revenue of over 150 million dollars and are ranked 332nd.
Queensland based A. Raptis and Sons, a business involved in the fishing, hunting and trapping industry is ranked 400th with a revenue of 113 million dollars.
The family owned Poulos Bros Group from Sydney, one of the largest seafood companies on the eastern seaboard of Australia, founded in 1955 by brothers Con and Denis Poulos, with a total revenue of 96 million dollars, is ranked 440th.
The Western Australian based MG Kailis company, involved in food product manufacturing with a revenue of over 81 million dollars, is ranked 467th.
What the 2014 The Deal list shows overall is the growing importance in the Australian economy of both industry super funds and the service sector.