2 iphone5s for us and europe?

I need to get new phones for my bosses who travel the world and currently have numerous separate phones.  For complex reasons, they don't want to have one device with everything on it for the world so I need to get the new iphones for the US while their other iphones (and ipads and airbooks) are all filled with European styled data (contacts etc).  I thus cannot use iCloud to sync the new phones, as this will either bring in the Euro content or it will wipe it out on their other existing Euro devices.
I am thinking (hoping) I can sync the new phones once to get the basic import of contacts, and then just not sync it with iCloud so the contacts in the US phones will remain styled as US , etc.  yes?   or can I keep the contacts syncing with iCloud and set the US iPhone to display them as US-styled on the US phone while still having their Euro iPhones display as Int'l dialing?  or will the iCloud syncing change the numbers display to be identical (ie. 011-44-xxx-xxxx vs +1 (44) xxx-xxxx)
Mail:
I'm not sure exactly what to do about mail.  I am assuming that whether I sync it or just create the mail accounts on the iphone as stand alone, they will still end up with a zillion "unread" emails on the phones that they will have already read during the months they were ex-US.  If there's a work around this, please suggest.
I know logic dictates they should just have one iPhone and swap sim cards for the different territories, but I'm dealing with people who have been trained to keep all their devices separate and are "PC" based people (with PC IT people in Europe driving this train) who I am trying to segue into trusting Mac products.  Therefore right now, they want only a "US phone" which will remain in the US.
Hope I'm making sense.
Thanks!

For contacts, you can use iCloud to create groups, & then decide what group is visible on what phone:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2667
For mail, if Exchange or IMAP accounts(I suspect Exchange), mail will be kept in sync.

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