Founded in 1995 their primary goal is to promote high-level English-language publications from Cyprus, Greece, and the Eastern Mediterranean region in general.

[1] Their title To Peirama (The Experiment) by Myrto Azina Chronides won the European Union Prize for Literature[2] for Cyprus in 2011.

They have translated works from the likes of Roger Willemsen and Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, and have published titles by, among others, Rory Maclean, Nick Danziger, Kevin Sullivan, Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos, Paul Stewart, Andreas Karayan, Nora Nadjarian, Lina Ellina, Chrysanthos Chrysanthou, Eve Meleagrou, Richard Romanus, Colette Ni Reammon Ioannidou, Jenny Benjamin, Yiangos P. Kleopas, Stefanos Evangelides, Mona Savvidou Theodoulou, Panos Ioannides, Rina Katselli, Theoclis Kouyialis, Victoria Hardwood Butler-Sloss, George Tardios, Theo Panayides, Melissa Hekkers, Metin Murat, Andrea Busfield, Giórgos Christodoulides and many others.

Armida was the first publishing company in Cyprus to establish an active e-books program for titles in Greek and English.

Armida was part of a group of companies – namely AMP Filmworks Limited [7] and Art FX [8]– that bid for a project by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus.

This was a ground-breaking achievement in the realm of aids for the deaf globally as the detail undertaken was unprecedented for its time, taking three years to complete.