GOLD’s first cover story for 2021 focuses on the 7th CCCI Business Leader Awards that took place at the Nicosia Municipal Theatre on Monday, December 21 in the exclusive presence of winners and sponsors. For the first time in seven years, in compliance with Ministry of Health guidelines and recommendations regarding COVID-19, the event was held digitally and hundreds of guests had the opportunity to watch the ceremony online. For the 7th consecutive year, the CCCI Business Leader Awards honoured leadership excellence demonstrated by inspiring, dynamic and respected individuals who have contributed to the growth of not only their own firms but of their respective sectors and entrepreneurship in general.
Over the past seven years, the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CCCI) has identified a total of 48 such individuals and honoured them with a Business Leader Award in their particular sector, in addition to recognising an additional seven outstanding figures from the local business community for their overall lifetime contribution to entrepreneurship in the country. As the leading English-language business publication in Cyprus, GOLD has been a firm supporter/promoter of the CCCI Business Leader Awards since 2014 and will remain so for as long as outstanding leaders continue to have an impact on the Cypriot business arena and the economy. In his interview, with which our extensive cover story begins (page 32), CCCI President Christodoulos E. Angastiniotis expresses his optimism that the Chamber will indeed keep identifying distinguished entrepreneurs who excel and will continue to honour them through its prestigious annual Awards.
The January Issue also features interviews with Constantinos Loizou and Alexis Solomon, founders of the increasingly successful Beardspect range of beard care products, Nawaf Abdulla who explains how, in 2020, DP World Limassol intensified efforts to make the Limassol port more resilient by boosting automation and digitization, as well as Marios Piperides, founder of AMP Filmworks, and producer Janine Teerling, who discuss the difficulties of running a film production studio in Cyprus, the thin line between art and business and the potential of the Cyprus Film Scheme to revitalise an otherwise stagnating sector. Furthermore, Dr Androulla Eleftheriou, Executive Director of the Thalassaemia International Federation, tells GOLD the history of the Federation, the latest encouraging scientific advances regarding thalassaemia and her support for Cyprus’ National Health Scheme and Leroy Merlin outlines how it has managed to create a ‘home’ at work for its people.
All this and many more in GOLD’s January Issue, available on Sunday 17, January.
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