Every month Harding Retail, the world’s biggest on-board tax- and duty-free outlets operator on cruise ships, awards two employees for their outstanding and dedicated work. The awards are dedicated towards an outstanding performance in line with Harding Retail Corporate Values Trust, Spirit and Professionalism. Last month awards went to Mitko Stamenkovski who was awarded “Harding US, Manager of the Month” and Dimitar Kjosevski taking “Employee of the Month award”. Interesting thing is that these two Harding employees come from the same country, the Republic of Macedonia. When it comes to numbers crew members coming from this tiny Balkan country, make only small percentage of cruise ship employees. However, they are considered to be highly valuable and respected employees among their colleagues and supervisors and are a real asset to the cruise lines.

“We are delighted to announce that the award for Harding US, Manager of the Month, April, goes to Mitko on Royal Caribbean Independence of the Seas! Mitko has done an exceptional job during the recent dry dock and on top of this consistently delivers great sales results! In addition, Mitko does a great job at communicating with shipboard management as well as head office. Mitko is a fantastic trainer and always works hard to develop his team. Congratulations Mitko and thank you for all your hard work!” reads Harding Retail announcement on the social media

“Congratulations to Dimitar on Carnival Victory for Winning April's Employee of the Month award! Dimitar is an exceptional member of the team who regularly sacrifices his own time to ensure the rest of the team do not have to stay behind. In addition, his sales have been consistently good throughout his career with Harding Retail and we are very lucky to have him as part of the Harding US Team. Dimi - Your hard work is very much appreciated!”

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