OREANDA-NEWS. 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.”