Baku, Azerbaijan, June 6
By Fikret Dolukhanov – Trend:
Artel, the Uzbek manufacturer of household appliances and electronics has expanded the geography of supplies to over 10 countries in Europe and Central Asia, Manager of the Export and Foreign Economic Activity Department of the Artel Group of Companies, Timur Khojaev told Trend on June 6.
He reminded that Artel first began exporting its products to such Central Asian countries as Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 2012.
“Year after year the exports geography has only expanded and is currently including Latvia, Ukraine, Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan,” the company representative said.
He added that the Artel Azerbaijan trading house was opened in 2017, which actively cooperates with official distributors and has established customer service throughout Azerbaijan. The company is also planning to begin deliveries of equipment to the Egyptian market in the near future.
“The history of the Artel can be rightfully considered a successful one. In 2011, at the very beginning of activity, the range of our products had only two types: gas stoves and mini-ovens. Thanks to the dedicated work of the employees of the factories and unprecedented quality control of the products, appliances under the Artel brand had already been almost in every Uzbek family by 2014,” Khojayev noted.
According to the company representative, Artel currently has over 50-percent share in the household appliances market of Uzbekistan.
Khojaev also noted that the Artel Group of Companies is currently closely cooperating with such renowned manufacturers of household appliances as Samsung, LG, Midea, GREE, Toshiba, Embraco, GMCC, HIGHLY etc.
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