Why some businesses are closing while others are thriving
We have studied the announcement by the small shopkeepers association (Povek) warning the state not to reduce the subsidies being paid to shopkeepers. The union...
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Compulsory card payment change worries small businesses
Although a positive move, making card payments a compulsory transaction option might create a number of issues for smaller shop owners, their union Povek said...
Coronavirus: Shops slash prices to draw crowds as they re-open
Shops re-opened on Monday, the first day of phase two of the easing of the coronavirus lockdown, with special offers as they try to recoup...
Coronavirus: Pressure from big business kept us closed say small shops
Pressure from big business has kept small retail outlets closed until February 8, the union of small shopkeepers Povek claimed on Thursday. It said that,...
Coronavirus: Small business owners call for more help
Small business owners on Tuesday urged the government to accompany any stricter measures with support for enterprises and the economy. According to small shop keepers...
Retailers see reduced Black Friday traffic, Povek says
There was reduced traffic in shops on Black Friday compared with previous years, small shopkeepers’ union Povek said on Friday. While some people wearing face...
Union cancels demo after ban, others call for civil disobedience
Small shopkeepers union Povek will not stage a planned demonstration in front of the presidential palace on Wednesday due to new measures against coronavirus forbidding...
Coronavirus: shop owners need €500m in liquidity, Povek says
Shop owners must be given some €500m in liquidity directly by the state in the first four months of their operation with repayment extending to...
Coronavirus: Povek says shopkeepers enduring a ‘climate of terrorism’
Small shopkeepers union Povek on Thursday called for the intervention of Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou over the coronavirus testing of retail workers, saying they were...
Coronavirus: Povek calls for reduction in the cost of shop rents
Small shopkeepers union, Povek has written to the finance and justice ministries, as well as to leaders of political parties, asking them to reduce rents...
Shop owners appeal to church to show virus-era generosity over rents
Povek, the association representing small businesses, has written to Archbishop Chrysostomos asking him to drastically cut the rents charged for all church-owned shops. In a...
Limassol shopkeepers ready to make last-ditch effort to agree with local council
By Kristian Chrysostomou Shopkeepers on Limassol’s Misiaouli, Kavasoglou and Yildiz streets have said they would make a last-ditch effort to resolve their dispute with local...
Shoppers boost sales with their 13th bonus
CHRISTMAS is upon us once again and preparations are in full swing for the joyous occasion, exchange of gifts, elaborate banquets and, for some,...
Truck drivers rebuff Anastasiades as cargo floods port
The deadlock at the Limassol port continued on Friday, after lorry drivers defied President Nicos Anastasiades’s appeal to resume the delivery of containers whose number...
‘Let justice decide who is right’
Archbishop Chrysostomos on Monday said that he had made many interventions to the government for shops to remain closed on August 15 and on Sundays...
Row over shop opening hours on August 15 holiday
The head of small shopkeeper’s union POVEK Stefanos Koursaris urged on Monday the police and the labour ministry to report all those general shops which...
Napa mayor accuses water sports operators of thwarting competition
Ayia Napa Mayor Yiannos Karousos on Thursday accused the Water Sports Association of conspiring to make sure there was no competition in tenders for setting...
Big shops vow to keep opening on Sundays
By Evie Andreou BIG retailers yesterday vowed to defy the law on shop hours and remain open on Sundays and Wednesday afternoons after the government...
Small shopkeepers want assurances of Christmas Day closure
The small shopkeepers association POVEK on Tuesday asked Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou in a letter to make sure the law was observed so that no...
Shopkeepers doing their bit for Cyprus solution
Delegations from shopkeepers unions on both sides of the divide have decided to set up a committee to further business collaboration between them. The delegations...