Tomorrow Saturday the 16th and 10:00 am at the church of Ayios Nikolaos is the funeral of the prominent businessman Christakis Pattichis.
The people of Remedica lost on the 13th April at the age of 88, their founder and President Mr Christakis Pattichis.
Mr Pattichis was a pure and low-profile man with tremendous vision imprinted with the words “give space to vision and visualize. See the negative aspects of a situation as an opportunity to create and develop”.
He was born in Kato Drys in 1927. From young age he moved to Scotland, where lived and worked for 14 years. He studied Chemical Engineering and Business Administration and later on he got his MBA. He got married to Margaret and had three children, Charalambos, Katerina and Christiana which gave him 5 grandchildren.
Through hard work, he managed to put an indelible stamp on the business world of Cyprus with active participation in business life of the country. His moto was that the businessman has no other choice and should not be complacent but to exceed himself. In 1960 he founded in Limassol T. Ch Pattichis (manufacturing chemists), a company engaged in the production of carbon dioxide and then with the production of cosmetics and aerosols, while manufacturing products for well-known foreign companies to Cyprus and the Middle East. In 1969 he began his first contacts with foreign markets with cosmetics exports.
Rightfully considered by the business world as the father of the pharmaceutical industry of Cyprus since he envisioned it in 1970 while delivering posthumous giant Remedica with exports to over 100 countries with more than 350 products, employing 650 people.
With boundless efforts to contribute to the development of the country economy he was able to withstand the difficult times after the Turkish invasion in 1974 after progressing to the packaging of medication for a Multinational Company destined for the Middle East. In the difficult conditions of the time and always with a guiding beacon, his vision which was none other than the creation of a company that belonged to its people, in 1980 he founded Remedica, a company engaged in the manufacture of generic drugs. Milestone in the company's history was 1982, when he began the first exports to the markets of the Far East. With enviable entrepreneurial ability and faith in his vision, he managed to win everyone in the world, and to export the company's products. Always having in his mind the economic development of Cyprus he turned his gaze away and beyond its borders, representing his country in the best way through the export business activity that he developed.
With his new goal to become the best employer of Cyprus, during the economic crisis in 2013, he hires 178 new employees giving solutions to many families with financial difficulties.
His business acumen remains unchanged until the last day of his life having always the eye towards Remedica.
Mr Pattichis demonstrated great social and charitable work.
