Dankotuwa Porcelain Betta-Farfor tie-up

Dankotuwa Porcelain PLC recently signed an agreement with ‘Betta-Farfor’ Limited, as their sole agent for Ukrainian Market.

Dankotuwa started business with ‘Betta-Farfor’ a few years ago and the business has grown gradually and firmly over the years. This relationship is now firmed up with the signing of this agency agreement.

Established over 15 years ago, Betta-Farfor, are market leaders in the trading of quality tableware, glassware, kitchenware and giftware in Ukraine. The Company with a strong sales force has an islandwide distribution network in Ukraine with their main showrooms in Kiev and Lviv.

It’s fertile black soil produced more than one fourth of the Soviet agricultural output. Although facing an economic slump like the rest of Europe, it is noted for high domestic consumption arising from good pension schemes and rising wages.

Volodymyr Viktorovych Ieromenko, Valerii Ganchurin and Liliya Nykolenko were here last month to launch new projects, select new designs for the Ukranian market, and finalise the agreement.

They said that since they deal with the upper segment of the market they are very happy with the quality and service of Dankotuwa Porcelain.

Since the Ukranian market prefers heavy and very ornate designs, Dankotuwa is the natural supplier mainly because of its high capability to manufacture difficult shapes and produce very intricate surface designs.

Although the market situation is difficult at the moment Bette-Farfor believes that there is a good demand for high end products made by Dankotuwa.

“Although for the factory it is more convenient to have larger volumes from a few customers, we do not want to be too dependent on a few customers, or mostly servicing a particular segment,” said Chief Operating Officer of Dankotuwa Porcelain Sarath Mallawa Arachchi.

The spread of customers Dankotuwa still has 70 percent of last year’s level of orders so far, while many other porcelain manufacturers claim that their orders have halved this year.