Golden Tile ceramic group in the first half of 2018 increased tile exports by 21%, to 2.8 million square meters, Oleh Lysokon, the deputy chairman of the Golden Tile board, has told Interfax-Ukraine. According to him, the group also increased domestic sales to 4.2 million square meters, which is 10% more than in the first half of 2017. According to the group’s report on its website, in the second half of this year Golden Tile plans to export 2 million square meters of tiles. The geography of its exports covers 26 countries. The key areas of foreign trade are Great Britain, Germany, Romania, Hungary, and Poland.
“The key to foreign markets is DIY networks. We sold 556,000 square meters of our products in foreign trade networks in the first half of 2018. The growth compared to 2017 was 54%. Ukrainian tiles took their place on the shelves of the largest European trade networks: Leroy Merlin, Praktiker, Mercury Market, Hornbach, OBI, and Arabesque,” chairman of the group board Dmytro Salimonov said.
According to him, the group plans to open a representative office in Israel and Lithuania, as well as to sign a contract with the British DIY networks ToppsTiles and Homebase.
Golden Tile ceramic group is a vertically integrated group of companies providing a full cycle of production and distribution of ceramic tiles.
