Besides its participation in the Riga marathon on May 18th, ELKO Group is embarking on a marathon tour across Eastern Europe. The company has agencies in 14 cities and nine countries, and each member is invited to participate in their city’s marathon.

For the Riga marathon, the Latvian ELKO Group team, which consists of 13 people, will stand on the starting line, and already on May 25th, the company’s Ukrainian team will prove their physical endurance and healthy, athletic attitude at the Russian marathon called the Chestnut Run (Пробег под каштанами). On October 26th the Slovenian agency of ELKO Group will, in turn, continue the established tradition by starting at the annual marathon in Ljubljana.

Setting up common events at all agencies of ELKO Group is part of the company’s corporate culture, which helps ensure quality leisure for the employees, as well as a sense of solidarity that allows them to work with renewed energy and joy. ELKO Grupa is led by a very strong team spirit, which is also one of the company’s key values and driving forces!

ELKO Group JSC was founded in 1993. ELKO Group JSC is the largest company in Latvia, reaching a turnover of over one billion U.S. dollars last year. The main aspect of the company’s business is wholesale of computer equipment and electronics in the Baltic States, Central Europe and the CIS. The company represents around 70 manufacturers and sells their products to more than 6 300 retailers, local computer manufacturers and systems integrators. ELKO Group offers over 7,000 products made by the world’s best-known suppliers: „Acer”, „Intel”, „Seagate”, „Samsung”, „Sony” and „Western Digital”. At the moment, ELKO Group employs a total of 330 people. The company belongs to several private persons, alongside with investment funds „East Capital” and „Amber Trust”.

ELKO Group JSC is the largest company in Latvia, reaching a turnover of 1 billion U.S. dollars in 2007, which amounts to 525 million lats.