Greek industrialist Constantinos Angelopoulos died in Athens on Monday aged 76. He was hospitalized in a private clinic for the last couple of months.
He had suffered from a rare form of arthritis from a young age that had gradually impaired his mobility.
Angelopoulos was a son of founder of “Halyvoyrgiki” Hellenic Steel Industry, Greece’s first steel company. The company was closely associated with the course of the country’s economy and the construction of major infrastructural works in the 1950s.
After completing ASOEE, the current Athens University of Economics & Business, he continued his studies in Switzerland before getting involved with the family business.
He also ventured into the shipping industry, and was the managing director of Arcadia Shipmanagement Co Ltd, which he ran with his sons Panagiotis and Giorgos.
He was brother of ship magnate Theodoros Angelopoulos.
