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Pierides Georgios A.

Biography

He was born on the 28th of May 1945. He worked at the company N.P Lanitis at the branch of electrical supplies at Kerynia from 1970 until 1972. Later on, he decided to expand and he created his own business in the same field. In 1972, he created a store of electrical supplies, which operated with great success for two years. In 1974, due to the Tourkish Invasion, he moved to Athens. He worked at several jobs of the field and at the same time he studied at Electrical Engineering. In 1976, he gained the license of commercial representative (dealer) and started creating his own business, with main activities the imports-exports of electrical material between Cyprus and Greece and other countries. IN 1979, he decided to return to Cyprus, continuing to operate at the same business field. In 1981 he founded, through G.A.P Cables Industry Ltd, the first factory of electrical cable manufacturing in Cyprus, which still remains the only one of it’s kind and functions with great success. Parallel to that, since 1985 he expanded to the commerce of electonical material and in 1996, he decided to found the company Pierides G. Electrical.
SecuritiesCompanyDateStake
PGEPierides Holdings Plc31/12/20130.00 %