TK-Domashniy Tekstil, part of the Textile-Contact (TK Group) group of companies, significantly increased its exports in December, in particular, it began working with customers from Sweden for the first time, according to the group’s owner, Alexander Sokolovsky.
“December is just beginning, but it has already become a record month for TK-Domashniy Tekstil’s exports: since the beginning of the month, we have shipped seven trucks of our own products to Europe! We have started working with customers from Sweden for the first time, with whom we have contracted our own digitally printed fabrics,” he wrote on Facebook.
It is specified that the designs were provided by the customer, and the Chernihiv Textile Combine (TK-DT Chernihiv) was fully responsible for the manufacture of fabrics and digital printing.
Products were also shipped to a new customer in Romania.
According to Sokolovsky, two trucks went to a new partner in the Baltics with a custom order for mattresses filled with 70% Ukrainian flax.
“The covers for these mattresses were sewn from natural cotton fabric (half-panels), which is also manufactured at our textile production facility,” added the owner of TK Group.
This month, the company made two large shipments to Lithuania—to the DEPO supermarket chain, where two trucks of finished home textile products were delivered, and the next batch is already being prepared.
“In addition, we made another shipment to our regular customer in Georgia, the Domino supermarket chain. This time, it was an expanded range of home textiles under our HomeLine brand with pre-New Year designs,” said Sokolovsky.
At the same time, he noted that currently, TC and many light industry enterprises are facing a problem where even regular customers have been afraid to place orders in Ukraine for the past two years.
“Although it is us who are taking the risk here, not them. Interestingly, this was not the case at the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022-2023. On the contrary, many Europeans tried to help Ukrainian entrepreneurs and, even understanding our capabilities, increased their orders despite logistical and other risks. Now, for some reason, it is much more difficult to break through, but we are doing everything possible and impossible,” Sokolovsky emphasized.
TK-Domashniy Tekstil is a leader in the production of fabrics, home textiles, and children’s products in Ukraine. Its asset portfolio includes one of the few finishing factories in Ukraine that produces cotton fabrics in Chernihiv, TK-DT Chernihiv. Its assets also include garment factories in Kyiv, Ternopil, Chernihiv, and Odesa; a shoe factory in Chyhyryn; a knitting factory; and a synthetic winterizer factory in Chernihiv.
The company’s products are imported to Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia, and France.
TK Group was founded in 1995. It is currently a holding company that brings together the entire spectrum of textile industry services, from raw materials and threads to ready-made solutions for B2B, B2G, and B2C customers.
The group consists of 13 factories and employs about 1,500 people.
Since the start of the full-scale war, the group has invested about $14.5 million in development.
The founder of the group is Sokolovsky, chairman of the Light Industry Defense Procurement Committee at the Federation of Employers of Ukraine and a member of the Manifest 42 public movement.
