In this article you will find information about doing business in Baltic states:  why and how you should do it.

Nowadays when crisis and recession are common words in business language, more and more business companies are thinking about possibilities to improve their price competitiveness.

One way to do this is by accessing new markets. Outsourcing the whole manufacturing process and other works in to the Baltic countries allows to save money on manufacturing costs and retain the same high quality.

For example Lithuanian furniture and metal makers are well-known in other EU countries as high quality and very versatile sectors. These sectors are very important to the whole economy of Lithuania and now face some problems because domestic market is shrinking. That’s why they are ready to manufacture products for foreign companies at very competitive price levels.

Tendency to search for partners in foreign countries in order to lower production costs is increasing. Foreign companies that were satisfied with the collaboration with Lithuanian and other Baltic companies recommend subcontracting for their business partners and more firms every day search for B2B opportunities in the Baltic region.

Other way to reduce manufacturing costs is to find suppliers in the Baltic region for needed materials.

These opportunities to find new competitiveness sources in Baltic region result in increasing profits and forging of  priceless long-term business relationships,.

The problem is, however, to find the appropriate business partner in this region. Because of some issues (for example language barrier or unknown potential partners’ capabilities) foreign business enterprises are having difficulties finding the partners they need. To solve this problem they are hiring business agencies, which have contacts and possibilities to access these markets, search, check and select the most suitable partners for successful long-term collaboration. The biggest advantages of these business agencies are that they have a lot of experience in this region and have prepared a package of helpful services that allows create maximum gain for foreign companies by finding a perfect business partner.

Usually brokerage enterprises are willing to create long-term business relationships because this way they can satisfy needs of their customers more stably and constantly. And as we all know - satisfied customer is the most important thing in successful business.

About the company
This company specializes in manufacturing and exports of solid wood furniture. Thanks to over 400 of dedicated employees they have reached 10 million Euro turnovers in 2008.

Capability
This company gets strong designs, great efficiency and highest reliability through modern machinery.
The machines (especially CNC) enables to react quickly and with flexibility to customers’ demands hereby convincing through the highest quality and opens up scope for practically unlimited production possibilities.
Production starts from the round timber and finishing with the packed product.
Minimum order of one item - 30-50 pieces.
Lead time - 6 weeks.

Raw material used in products
Timber is selected with great care and the wood used in products is from certified forests. Because of this company gains the certificate of FSC. Species of wood used in production: birch and oak.

Production

• Beds
• Cupboards
• Chests of drawers
• Trunks
• Coffee tables
• Dining tables
• Lamp tables
• TV units
• Console tables
• Sideboards
• Bedside tables
• etc.

About the company
Furniture manufacturer was founded in 1991 and applies the quality control system ISO 9001:2000.
The number of employees working in the company: more than 100.
The company specializes in production and design of kitchen and office furniture according to individual orders. It also produces other home furniture from materials such as painted MDF, veneer, solid wood, glass, laminated chipboard.

PRODUCTION

• Commodes, sideboards designed according to individual needs and produced from desired materials.
• Fully custom-made office furniture for personnel and conference room

About the company
The main specialization of the company is manufacturing and selling of soft sprung furnishings. The furniture produced in this company is known for good quality and attractive design.
The company was established in 1995 and has 75 employees. Manufacturing process takes place in an area of 2000 sq.m. which is constantly being expanded. In this year 3000 sq.m. industrial and storage premises are being built. The company has implemented ISO 9001: the international quality management system standard defined by the International Organization for Standardization. The firm sells its productions both in Lithuania and abroad. Upon customer’s request the furniture can be delivered to the desired destination by company’s transport.

Production

• Living room furniture
• Sofas
• Sectional furniture
• Child furniture
• Armchairs
• Pouffs
• Coffe-tables
• Bedroom furniture

About company
Limited Liability Private Company was founded in 1998 after purchasing a part of manufacture building with the equipment from another bankrupting company. After the reconstruction of manufacture buildings, building of the own boiling-house and drying houses the manufacture of furniture of birch solid timber has started. During the last seven years they renewed the manufacture potential, buildings, manufacture equipment, sanitary and household places. Now a complete technological potential needed for furniture of natural timber production is functioning. The furniture is made in the same place starting from the timber threading and ending with finishing decoration. This allows to reduce the risk of non-delivery of the product in time. The manufacture equipment is constantly renewed, the use of the latest equipment news helped to reach manufacture growth during the 2002- 2005 years up to 89 percent.

Production

• Kitchen, coffee tables and tables with flaps
• Chest of drawers
• Display cabinet
• Beds
• Nightstands, benches
• Briquettes

About the company

This company develops its production activities in two different directions:

• Wood processing
• Metal processing

Through a short time and intensive development they became one of the leading Lithuanian manufacturers

Development:

• Established in 1999, the company started its operations in 2000 by producing semi-finished wood components
• Started manufacturing wooden rocking toys in 2003
• In the same year, it was created a metal processing department for the development and production of machineres
• In the year 2004, company launched a major expansion of its manufacturing operations with a new furniture production facility

Company is FSC CoC certificated and takes membership in the association of Lithuanian woodworking industry.

Production

Furniture

• Manufacture of bedroom, dining room and office furniture from solid wood
• Furniture is produced from birch, beech, brown core beech, black alder, ordinary and radiata pines
• Can be stained, oiled or lacquered
• Consists of different modules and specifications that allow to construct the most convenient furniture models

Toys

• Produced from pine wood
• Can be colored/waxed or lacquered
• Correspond to all requirements raised by the EU
• Toys are flat packed into carton boxes, an assembling instruction is included
• Company is able to produce wooden toys according to individual design

Components (Door components, drawer fronts, profiles, table tops, shelf brackets, furniture legs)

• Produced from solid wood
• Humidity 8-10 %
• Can be solid, face glued, edge glued
• Tolerances for length +/- 0,1 mm, width +/- 0,2 mm, thickness +/- 0,2 mm
• Surface sanded, S4S, stained, colored, oiled or lacquered
• Components are produced according to customer`s request

Services

• Enterprise resource planning system creation
• IT solutions and services
• Website creation
• Programming (Java, PHP/MySQL, XHTML, Python, C#)
  

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This company was established in 2003 and is a rapidly expanding firm which focuses on the production and export of prefabricated wooden homes to France, UK, Spain and Scandinavian countries. In the factory, with over 4200 sq metres of floor space, it produces good quality low-cost housing for:

• Relief organisations
• National governments
• Local administrations
• Public and private companies
• Individuals

After over two years of investment in Research and Development we are now ready to implement the result of full production. Our major outcome is the capability to produce a section (wall), finished on both sides including insulation, piping, wiring, and connections to the house appliances.

The factory is, at the moment, able to produce several hundreds units a year but has the know-how and shift capacity to produce over 300 wooden houses a month.

We are very flexible and are able to produce and sell in small to medium quantities (0.2€ million – 1€ million). While China, India or Vietnam are suited for mass-production oriented customers, we are able to deliver quickness, precision, flexibility and originality for competitive prices with no language barriers. The unique geographical position of Lithuania enables us to deal with countries from both Western and Eastern markets.

We have considerable experience in project management: from a specific object which has to be furnished, to furniture design, manufacture, delivery, installation and warranties.

Our company is included in the Official Approval List of Suppliers, published by the Public Procurement Service of the Lithuanian government.

Currently we specialize in installing public facilities - offices, cafes, bars, restaurants, hotels, countryside tourism farmsteads, cultural heritage, educational and medical institutions, business centers, SPA centers etc. Due to our flexibility and versatility we are able to offer wide range of products varying from economy class to luxury.

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