From 18 till 21 August ELKO celebrated its ten years of success in Russian market. Celebration took place in Riga, a birthplace of ELKO Group, and the event gathered together over 160 participants – ELKO Russia key customers, ELKO Russia team, our key vendors in Russian market, and ELKO Group management.

“During the 4 wonderful days ELKO Group brought its core competence to its best: bringing world class suppliers of IT products together with the best and most powerful Russian IT system integrators and resellers. What started with a conference and formal presentations ended after 4 days in deep and warm friendship. I want to thank all participants for being so nice guests and I am more than sure that we all together will boost the sales in Russia in the coming years to an unbelievable high level.” – Jens Hartmann, ELKO Group CEO.

During the conference senior ELKO Russia and ELKO Group managers reminded to participants about history of ELKO Russia, reflected on current achievements of the company, and introduced with our future plans.

ELKO Russia General Manager Aleksandr Budilov during his welcoming speech: “Over 100 employees currently work at ELKO Russia, representative offices cover 10 largest cities, product range exceeds 2000 items from more than 30 vendors, and we serve more than 2500 customers. We are very proud of our region’s contribution in ELKO Group overall development, and would like to thank everyone, who supported and cooperated with us through all this years.”

Many sincere and kind words were said to ELKO during celebration dinner, which took place at Blackheads house – the heart of the Riga Old city.

ACER General Manager Gleb Mishin claimed: “In spite of the fact, that our collaboration started only three years ago, ELKO is one of our largest distributors not only in Russia, but also in whole Eastern Europe. ELKO dynamic, stainless reputation makes our mutually beneficial cooperation more and more capacious and perspective. […] I would like to wish progressive increase of meaningful zeros not only in company age, but also in profit and sales.”

Vanda Shvanderova, Regional Intel Manager CIS, addressed ELKO with the words “I am thankful to ELKO for the invitation and am firmly convinced, that it has been the best event I had ever attended. I sincerely wish to ELKO team all the bests and not to stop making great things leading to new victories”.