The oldest company in the field of graphic art.

It was founded in 1857 in the “Lost home Country” Smyrna from Christodoulos (Christakis) Athanassoulas who built the biggest factory conserving printing paper and cigarette paper processing in the East , KEAT HANE in a 40000m2 establishment employing almost 1000 employees.

KEAT HANE: This word comes from the Arabic word keat=paper and the Persian hane=house

Exclusive products, like the famous cigarette paper labeled with a steam-machine of the railway line AFION KARA HISSAR, were massively thrown in the markets of the Tourkish Empire of Egypt, India and Japan making the ATHANASSOULAS name, number one among the Turkish people.

With reverence the illiterate “Yörük” (were asking “ATANASSOULANIN CIGARETTE KEATI” (the Athanassoulas cigarette paper).

Other products like notebooks, cigarette paper, paper bags, carnival items, bookstore products, toys etc were sold through its franchise shops in Thessaloniki, Trieste, Vienna and other European cities.

The history of A. Onassis about how he first made money from Athanassoulas paper factory is characteristic. (bibliography “Smyrna of Smyrna citizens by G. Katramopoulos)

In 1921 in Smyrna, a part of the highly modern Athanassoulas factory was entirely burnt. There, were kept pencils and even though nobody was paying attention to the burnt leftovers of the pencils, Aristos found a way to buy in a very low price these leftovers and then set a table in front of the burnt factory with a saleswoman and sharpening the burnt ends of the pencils up and down he sold new pencils with two ends. That’s how he created the first chapter of KEAT HANE Athanassoulas.

1922