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want my money right where I can see it – hanging in my closet,” said Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw in 2003. At the time, many Cypriots shared that sentiment, purchasing millions of euros worth of clothes, footwear and accessories alone per annum and contributing to the development of the XLIR ÂSYVMWLMRK PSGEP JEWLMSR VIXEMP MRHYWXV] -X MW HMJÁGYPX XS IWXMQEXI XLI WM^I SJ XLI WIGXSV in Cyprus beyond recording the fact that in

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Will this consumer climate affect local fashion retailers’ sales growth?

And what of online shopping – will it inspire turbulence in brick-andmortar trading? How should retailers respond in order to secure optimal future success? Will the market’s long-term prospects be impacted by recent developments such as the acquisition of the Mall of Cyprus and Mall of Engomi by South African commercial, retail and residential property giant Atterbury Group, as well as the highly anticipated arrival of Swedish multinational retail-clothing company H&M to the island?

On the following pages, Gold answers these questions and more, as we gain the exclusive insight of among the local industry’s top professionals.

Olympios Toumazou, Executive President at RAI Consultants Public Ltd. offers his views on the fashion business trends and their effect on both consumers and retailers, Raoul de Villiers, Managing Director of Atterbury Europe Services, discusses the Group’s plans for the Nicosia Malls as well as possible further investment on the island, while Stelios Nicholson

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Economic & Business Highlights of the past month

14 | MY WAY

Alex Mouradian’s management style

16 | FIVE MINUTES WITH… Stelios Kythreotis

17 | THEY SAID WHAT?

A selection of memorable recent quotes from Cyprus

OPINION 26 | Whatever Happened to Ideology?

of Fashion Experts from the fashion retail business express their views on the future of the industry in Cyprus and elsewhere.

By Joseph F. X. Zahra

44 | Growth and Bureaucracy Cannot Co-exist

By Christodoulos Angastiniotis

84 | Hype or Hope?

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Interview with Fikri Toros, President of the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce

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his month’s issue of Gold is quite a special one in that it features interviews on two subjects to which we have not devoted much space until now. The first of these is fashion. It was Oscar Wilde who notably remarked, “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months” but a much fairer assessment is probably that of Coco Chanel, who more wisely (though less wittily) said, “Fashion changes, but style endures.”

The fashion retail sector in Cyprus has always been a huge money-spinner, simply because people here, like everyone else in most of the world, love clothes (and, in the case of women, shoes too...) and are willing to spend a sizeable amount of their income on them.

Some 40 years ago the island had a name for manufacturing clothing and shoes for export as well as local consumption but that has now completely disappeared, to be replaced by a market in which virtually every imported international brand name can be found.

Like every retail sector, fashion has been affected in recent years by the financial crisis – one only has to look at what happened to Stasikratous Street (popularly and unwarrantedly known as the ‘Bond Street of Cyprus’) and Makarios Avenue in Nicosia to see the effect of the recession on boutiques and clothing stores – and it is only just starting to recover. In addition to losing revenue due to reduced disposable income, shops have also been hit by the rise in e-commerce and the ease of buying online. But all is not lost, as several fashion industry experts told us for this issue’s cover story (starting on page 32) and while the sector it may be changing, it is changing for the better. The arrival next year of an eight-storey H&M store in what was once Nicosia’s main shopping area – Ledra Street – bodes well for shoppers and other retailers alike.

Several of the people we spoke to about fashion retail expressed the view that the sector will be positively affected by a settlement of the longstanding Cyprus Problem, which brings us to this issue’s second – and much more groundbreaking – topic. For the first time, we present an interview with a prominent Turkish Cypriot – Fikri Toros, President of the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce – who talks about his community’s economy and how he sees the benefits of a reunited Cyprus on both the Greek and Turkish Cypriots (page 20).

Elsewhere you will find articles and interviews related to the fiduciary sector (page 28), shipping (page 46), law (page 52), social John Vickers, media (page 78) and insurance (page 80), while we also take a look Chief Editor at companies as diverse as PGS Lighting & Electrical (page 24) and McDonald’s (page 90). john@imhbusiness.com

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Last month, the University of Cyprus celebrated the 25th anniversary of its establishment in 1989. With 7,000 students, 8 schools, 22 departments and 11 research units, the University was recently ranked among the 400 top universities in the world, as published by The Times in its Higher Education World University Rankings. The university described its ranking in 351st place as “an enormous achievement for our country, but also for the University of Cyprus itself, which has managed within its only 25 years of operation to be among the organizations of scientific excellence.�

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NICOLAS PAPAPANAYIOTOU Costas Tsielepis & Co Ltd has announced the appointment of Nicolas Papapanayiotou BSc, MBA, FCCA, as Senior Manager of its Taxation Department. Papapanayiotou is a Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA) with over 10 years of experience with the tax department of Deloitte Cyprus in the fields of national and international tax advisory and compliance. Costas Tsielepis & Co was founded in 1978 in Limassol and today offers Tax Advisory, Business Consultancy, Audit & Assurance and Risk Management & Corporate Governance services to clients and associates in Cyprus and worldwide.

DR. ANDREAS POULIKKAS Dr. Andreas Poullikkas has been appointed the new Chairman of the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA), following the departure of George Shammas. Poullikkas is a Chartered Scientist (CSci), Chartered Physicist (CPhys) and a Member of The Institute of Physics (MInstP). Prior to his promotion to Chairman, he held the role of Assistant Manager of Research and Development. He has over 20 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience of 10 | GOLD | The Business Magazine of Cyprus

research and development projects related to the mathematical analysis of fluid flows, nuclear power safety, the analysis of power generation technologies and the power economics.

KATHLEEN ANN DOHERTY The new US Ambassador to Cyprus, Kathleen Ann Doherty, joined the Foreign Service in 1990, with early posts including the Dominican Republic (1990-1992) and Brazil (1993-1995). She served in Washington for five years in the Office of Development Finance and in Office of Investment Affairs, before serving as special assistant to the then Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott during the Clinton administration. She served as an economic counselor in Rome (2000), Moscow (2006) and London (2008) and returned to Rome in August 2013 as Deputy Chief of mission.

PETER ECONOMIDES Peter Economides, Honorary Founder of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Cyprus has been re-elected as one of

the Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two Council members. STEP is the professional association for those advising families worldwide on trusts and estate planning. Commenting on his re-election, Economides said that his primary objective is the promotion and further establishment of the Society both in Cyprus and globally. He added that, while he felt proud and honoured to be re-elected, this would be his third and final term as a STEP Council member.

SAVVAS CONSTANTINOU Barclays has announced the appointment of Savvas Constantinou as Country Director of Barclays in Cyprus. Constantinou will be responsible for leading the corporate and intermediary business in Cyprus, replacing Hans Wolff. Constantinou joined Barclays Bank PLC, Cyprus Branch in 2010. Of his appointment, Constantinou said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am excited to be taking up my new Barclays position in Cyprus. With such a highly experienced and talented team based at our Nicosia and Limassol offices, we are able to offer clients local relationships with all the expertise of a global bank.â&#x20AC;?