The ceremony of awarding the best companies in the region in 2016 was organized by Vilnius Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts (Vilnius CCIC) on December 8. As the result of competition, Lithuanian company of RETAL was included in the winners list.
Vilnius CCIC is the largest Chamber of Commerce in Lithuania. Management of this organization brings together its members annually to summarize the outcome, and encourages the best representatives of the business community who have made the greatest contribution to the development of the region and the country’s economy.
This year, UAB RETAL Lithuania has been recognized as the best export-oriented com-pany in the region. The company has successfully been producing PET preforms in Lith-uania since 1997, and it involves about 200 employees in the modern plant in Lentvaris.
The traditional award of CCIC, the statuette of the Roman god of trade, Mercury, was presented to Giedrius Viederis, the General Director of UAB Retal Lithuaina, in the presence of Evaldas Gustas, Minister of Economy in Lithuania, Šarūnas Kliokys, Association of Lithuania Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Crafts president, Dr. Almantas Danileviči-us, CCIC president, Vilnius authorities representatives, and top management of leading companies in the region.
The jury members, CCIC management and distinguished guests paid tribute to the successful annual performance of UAB Retal Lithuania export and to the importance of pres-ence in the region a major manufacturer of modern and technologically advanced con-tainers and packaging.
The international exhibition ALL4PACK-2016 took place in Paris from 14 to 17 November. It becomes a major industry event for producers of packaging technologies, equipment and materials every second year. RETAL participated in this specialized forum for the first time.
ALL4PACK is gathering pace with each new event. This year, the total number of participants exceeded 90 thousand. Exhibition organizers have increased exhibition space specially for ALL4PACK-2016, and the forum’s slogan was Let’s be creative.
RETAL modernized stand was totally able to fully comply with a given concept. The latest development of the company - containers for dairy products (their success has been recently highlighted by award from DANONE), stirred a particular interest.
Through participation in ALL4PACK, RETAL presented their products to more than 400 potential clients from Benelux countries, France, Southern Europe and North Africa.
RETAL traditionally became a participant of the largest European BrauBeviale exhibition for the beverage industry, which took place in Nuremberg in November. This year RETAL presented an updated product range to their European colleagues.
BrauBeviale exhibition has been regularly held since the late 70s of the last century, with its scale growing every year. In 2016, BrauBeviale has set another record by hosting in three days about 38 thousand specialists from all areas of the beverage industry: distributors, suppliers, manufacturers of equipment, technologies, services, raw materials, packaging materials and finished beverages. Most of participants are companies from Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.
RETAL stand enjoyed great popularity among other 1300 exhibitors. Exhibition guests appreciated the stylish futuristic design of the site. RETAL brought to Germany the whole range of their products - preforms, caps, and containers. New developments of the company were of a particular interest among the visitors: containers for dairy packaging and the cap 1881 Xlight SF. By the way, the latter has been already actively used by European partners as a modern solution on the market of packaging of carbonated beverages.
RETAL has been constantly improving in promoting their brand and reputation, therefore the preparation for the next BrauBeviale has already begun.
In each of the past three years, RETAL’s annual growth has been more than 10%. RETAL is strengthening its position in the markets of Benelux, Germany and France which is one of RETAL’s strategic goals.
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