Mayra Vagioni
“Only my two children supported my project. I went through hell and high water, as everyone else thought my ideas were crazy and impossible, and were trying to stop me. They found my ideas unheard of and out of the norm. If I did not have perseverance and stubbornness, nothing would have happened.”
This reveals some of the personality traits of Mayra Vagioni-Stasinopoulou, who follows her heart and takes the necessary action to make her dreams successful.
At the age of just 18 she started her own clothing business, but quickly lost it due to a large fire, along with her family house. Dreams of a successful business career were turned upside down. Due to the difficult financial conditions, she was forced to work at Olympic Airways, so she would not burden her family. She married the electronics manufacturer, Pavlos Vagionis, owner of ELCO-Vagioni SA with whom she had two daughters Paola and Natalie, bound to her by a strong love, mutual respect and admiration. Blessed as her successor, Natalie, proved to be an equally dynamic woman that manages the business with great success.
For 20 consecutive years, she was dedicated to the company, to the factory, to the lab, to travel. Her vision to create a strong company and to develop it in other countries in the world, gave her the strength to move tirelessly and overcome any obstacle. Her motto: “Be unique and creative”, is a keyword for creativity. “The whole concept of Fresh Line is based on this,” she says.
Mayra disrupted an entire industry in the field of cosmetics, giving the market unprecedented products because of their handmade and bulk nature, in an imaginative form, while being completely safe and effective.
Mayra Vagioni Stasinopoulou is testament that we are the ones that give meaning to our lives and it’s not something we can find somewhere. She inspires us because she is a role model for leadership and creativity who built an empire out of nothing.
Mayra Vagioni Stasinopoulou is the founder and President of Fresh Line Organic Cosmetics
