17 April 2014
Metinvest-SMC, Metinvest Group's sales channel in Ukraine, opened a retail warehouse in Kharkiv, one of the largest steel consuming regions in the country.
The Company already has a trade branch and wholesale metal centre in this region. The new warehouse will operate in the retail segment and fulfill orders for small lots of steel products.
The retail metal centre is conveniently located from a logistics point-of-view, has an indoor warehouse and six overhead cranes with a lifting capacity of 5-20 tons. Its product range includes over 300 types of products manufactured by Metinvest's assets. In particular, rebar, beam, channel, angle, strip, square rod, and plates, while profiled sheets and shaped pipes will be added in the future. The centre also offers rolled steel cutting services (minimum lot – 1 meter).
Dmitry Lyppa, General Director, Metinvest-SMC:
"The development of retail sales is an important step toward our strategic goal, i.e. the creation of an efficient sales network in Ukraine. We understand successful sales through our distribution network are possible only thanks to close proximity to clients, quick deliveries, wide product range, and first class service to wholesale and retail clients. Our focus is to increase sales to end consumers, which is why we intend to create retail warehouses in other regions of Ukraine."
Anton Yurchenko, director of Metinvest-SMC branch in Kharkiv
"Our goal is to offer the comfortable terms of cooperation to our retail customers. We want to make purchasing of steel starting from 1 meter of any rolled product to a batch comprised of several items was as easy as buying food in a supermarket. Our new warehouse allows focusing efforts on providing an effective service to retail customers and a broad opportunity to form batch orders."
- For editors:
Metinvest-SMC is the largest and most actively developing network of service metal centers in Ukraine. The Company sells over 1,000 metals products from Metinvest Group and other companies in Ukraine and the CIS.Metinvest–SMC’s network consists of 18 service metal centers in Kyiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kremenchuk, Kriviy Rih, Vinnitsya, Lviv, Khmelnitsk, Broshniv-Osada, Ternopil, Mariupol, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sevastopol and Simferopol.
METINVEST GROUP is a vertically integrated steel and mining group of companies, managing every link of the value chain, from mining and processing iron ore and coal to making and selling semi-finished and finished steel products. The Group comprises steel and mining production facilities located in Ukraine, Europe and the USA and has a sales network covering all key global markets. Metinvest Group is structured into two operating divisions: Metallurgical and Mining Divisions and has a strategic vision to become the leading vertically integrated steel producer in Europe, and to deliver sustainable growth and profitability resilient to business cycles, providing investors with returns at above the industry benchmarks.
The major shareholders of METINVEST B.V. (a holding company of Metinvest Group) are SCM Group (71.25%) and Smart-Holding (23.75%), partnering in the Company’s management.
METINVEST HOLDING, LLС is the managing company of Metinvest Group.