INBusiness Awards 2012: Celebrating Successful Businesses and Entrepreneurship

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Jan 18, 2013, 09:44 ET

NICOSIA, Cyprus, January 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

The INBusiness Awards 2012 took place for the fifth consecutive year at the Hilton Park Hotel in Nicosia. A total of 12 awards were presented to companies, business practices, products, and people that are leading the local and international business community. Hellenic Bank, MTN, Chivas and TFI Markets sponsored the event. Chrysanthos Tsouroullis coordinated the event while the entertaining part was undertaken by the internationally renowned soprano Katerina Mina.

The winners of the event are as follows:

New Product / Service Award
Managed Print Services, Demstar Information Group
Recipient: Stelios Kolokasides, CEO Demstar Information Group
Presenters: Marios Mavridis, an economist and member of the Democratic Rally and Thanos Chronopoulos, Chief Marketing Officer of MTN

Industry / Manufacturing Award
Vitatrace Nutrition
Recipient: Christodoulos Angastiniotis, CEO Vitatrace Nutrition
Presenters: Filios Zachariades, President of the Federation of Employers and Industrialists and Marios Tsiakkis, Secretary General of the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Services Award
Intercollege Global Training
Recipient: Odysseus Christodoulou, CEO of Intercollege Globaltraining
Presenters: Demetra Kalogirou, President of the CySEC and Lucas Marangos, CEO of TFI Markets.

SMBs Award
NIPD Genetics
Recipient: Philip Patsalis, CEO of NIPD Genetics
Presenters: Philokypros Andrew, President of the Limassol Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Dinos Lefkaritis, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Larnaca

Manager Award
Recipient: John Lysandros, CEO, PHC Franchised Restaurants Public
Presenter: Haris Georgiades and Fotis Fotiou, Spokesperson DISY and DIKO respectively.

Best Workplace Award
Deloitte
Recipient: Christis Christoforou, Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte
Presenter: Dimitris Syllouris, president of EVROKO and Vasilis Petridis, CEO Laiko Cosmos Trading Ltd

Corporate Social Responsibility
Lanitis Group
Recipient: Platon Lanitis, Chairman of the Board of Lanitis E.C. Holdings Ltd
Presenter: Sophocles Aletraris, Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment and Pambos Papageorgiou, AKEL MP

Business Individual who excels internationally
Recipient: Chris Lazari, President, Lazari Investments
Presenter: Andreas Papanicolaou, Director of Marketing Services, Public Relations & Cultural Activities Group Hellenic Bank and Koufaris George, President of Cyprus Stock Exchange.

Editor's Choice Award
FxPro Financial Services
Recipient: Dennis Sukhotin, Executive Chairman of the Board
Presenter: Daphne Tang, General Manager and Elena Leondiou, Director of Media Department IMH.

Business Award
Medochemie
Recipient: Konstantinos Pittas, Head of Sales on non-European Federation
Presenter: Makis Keravnos, Chief Executive Officer of Hellenic Group and Vassos Shiarly, Finance Minister.

Young Business Leader Award (In memory of Andy Hadjicostis)
Recipient: Alexis Fotiades, CEO, Fotos Fotiadis Distributors
Presenter: Constantinos Ioannou, member of the Board of IMH and Alexis Nickolas, General Manager of Sigma TV.

Lifetime Achievement Award
Recipient: Kikis Lefkaritis, Executive Chairman of the Board, Petrolina (Holdings) Public Ltd and Chairman of the Lefkariti Group of Companies
Presenter: Dr. Andreas Panayiotou, President of the Board of Directors at Hellenic Bank and Neoclis Sylikiotis, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism.