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CACTUS RESTAURANT AND KOOR WINES

CACTUS RESTAURANT

In May 2000, Cactus restaurant, the first Mexican restaurant was opened in Yerevan. Soon it became one of the most frequented spots in the city. Over the years, the restaurant has hosted a variety of festivals, has won at several contests, thus earning a great reputation among the city residents and tourists.

Cactus restaurant is known as the business case on pioneering quality and customer service standards, from excellence in operations and business processes to numerous successes in talent management and capacity building, contributing to the development of the hospitality industry in Armenia.

KOOR WINES

Wine is an intrinsic part of human evolution. In many ways it changed the course of civilization and today it remains to be the most sophisticated beverage, defining cultural and traditional aspects of a given society. For Armenians wine has been an inherent part of life for millennia. Today, the country is experiencing an unprecedented and historic renaissance in viticulture and winemaking, and we are very excited to be a part of it.

Armenian wine Koor from Highland Cellars has absorbed the centuries-old traditions of wine-producing Armenia and its creators’ love for this land, where, according to Bible, Noah planted the first vine at the foothills of Mount Ararat.

Koor entered the Armenian wine market in 2015. Made exclusively from the Armenian grape varieties, as a tribute to the Armenian heritage, Koor embodies both the centuries-old secrets and the latest technologies of winemaking. Today, the market of wines has been actively expanding in the world, following the steadily growing demand for wine —a glass of high-quality wine for a good dinner or lunch seems to be nowadays as desirable as never.

Besides the Armenian market, Koor is currently being distributed in France, Canada, Japan, Russia, Switzerland and expanding its domain all over the world.

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Dear Visitor,

We are glad you are interested in the activities of the IDeA Foundation.

On this platform, you can learn about two-decades long thought, passion, commitment and hard work — all in pursuit of a more prosperous Armenia. The road has been long and reflections many. But we managed to achieve to a point where our work has left its mark on the lives of millions of people and we are really proud of it.

Our accomplishments are the fruit of a collective effort by hundreds of thousands of promoters and volunteers, tens of thousands of donors and supporters, hundreds of colleagues and dozens of founding partners. Together, we have shown what wonderous things can be achieved when people strive for realization of a common goal.

Allow our family, who was lucky enough to witness these remarkable achievements from the beginning, to express our sincere gratitude to numerous wonderful, caring, purposeful people and organizations that made all these achievements possible. We have the honor to present their successes and express our gratitude to them.

We have tried to present the key landmarks of our journey to a brighter Armenia, to chart the lessons learned, and some of the new approaches and initiatives they have forged — the 700 projects over the last 20 years.

We hope that learning about these works will be as pleasant for you as it is for us to tell about them.

But, more importantly, we would like to see you among those Armenians who will continue this path together with us in the future.

If a single community of like-minded people working towards the realization of a common vision of the future can achieve such a result, imagine what kind of changes can be made if the efforts of the entire nation were directed towards creation. Together we can dream.

And, together, we can make our dreams come true.

Thank You,

Ruben Vardanyan and Veronika Zonabend