COMPANY REPORT
70
TELE-satellite & Broadband — 10-11/2008 — www.TELE-satellite.com
Satellite Shop in the Netherlands
Not far from downtown Amsterdam you’ll
find the eeshop.nl satellite store. If you follow
the Rozengracht from the main place Dam
past all of the tourist shops you’ll eventu-
ally end up in front of a store loaded with
satellite components in their front display
window with the eeshop.nl company
name right above it. A clever idea: to
name his business the same as its
web address. Who came up with
this idea?
That would be Antonio Gor-
gievski, born in Macedonia, but
calling Amsterdam his home
since 1991. How did he end up
running a satellite shop?
He told us how it all started:
“It was in 1995 when I started
playing with an Amstrad 80cm
dish to receive among other
things
D2-MAC
channels”,
remembers Antonio while sip-
ping at a can of cola. He became
a real satellite enthusiast and
word of this spread quickly
among his friends and acquain-
tances. The story has a familiar
theme: he would erect satel-
lite systems after work and on
eeshop.nl’s store in central Amsterdam. Anto-
nio can communicate with his customers in a
number of languages: naturally Dutch, but also
English, Spanish, German, Italian and his native
language Macedonian (Serbian and Croatian).
GSO in Dutch means Community Systems.
72
TELE-satellite & Broadband — 10-11/2008 — www.TELE-satellite.com
weekends, alongside his regu-
lar job as a Cable Installation
Supervisor with the local cable
provider UPC.
Back then he bought his sat-
ellite components from eeshop,
founded by someone named
Eddie in 1978 as a dealer in TV
components.
Eddie was the first to sell sat-
ellite antennas in Amsterdam.
But as time wore on, Eddie was
slowly loosing the drive to con-
tinue running his business. As
one of his regular customers,
Antonio naturally could sense
this and realized that this was
his chance of a lifetime: “I took
over Eddie’s business in 2004”,
explained Antonio still smiling at