The capital city company “CITY DOORS” assures that being a door sales distributor is easy and profitable if you know the door market well. They claim this with good reason, as the company itself is such a distributor, having sold doors for various purposes, different models, various prices, from different domestic manufacturers for years. From their own experience, they know: the door sales business is profitable to conduct if you can offer the end consumer a good price on interesting and necessary models; if you have reputable quality certificates, the necessary range and volume of products; if you can professionally and kindly provide the buyer with quality service. “CITY DOORS” is a successful trading company because it has all of this and does everything necessary for active sales. Over the company’s existence, effective schemes for finding clients, processing client requests have been developed, and tens of thousands of orders have been successfully fulfilled.

– Has the war significantly slowed down the company’s development?

– You could say we were a bit lucky in this regard. As mentioned, the company is an official distributor for several door manufacturers, but our main, basic supplier is the Koryukivka door factory “KORFAD”. Its production is based in the Chernihiv region, in the part of the oblast that was temporarily occupied by the Russians. But they were quickly driven out of there, so they didn’t manage to “take charge”. The door factory didn’t suffer destruction or even damage. As soon as the unwanted guests were swept out of the region, the factory almost immediately started working again, as all the workers were in place, and materials for production were in the warehouses.

– That’s regarding the manufacturer, but what about your company?

– We immediately resorted to relocation: we moved all our warehouse stock to the Lviv and Khmelnytskyi regions. Our good partners there gave us shelter. But we didn’t stay there long; when the enemy was pushed back from the capital, we returned.

– But the fact that the war changed the situation in the domestic market couldn’t help but affect the company. The realities of wartime forced your company to adapt to them as well? What allowed you to go through such adaptation?

– It became obvious that we needed to focus on budget models of door products. And we made this transition quite quickly. We developed several series of economy class doors with our manufacturers. They also coped with this task quickly, without compromising on the quality of new products, and sales not only intensified but even slightly exceeded pre-war levels. However, this intensification is also due to the fact that some large door factories that occupied almost half of the domestic market disappeared from the market. Their productions ended up under occupation and were destroyed. So the competition has noticeably weakened.

– Do you sell products abroad?

– “CITY DOORS” doesn’t directly, but we assist our manufacturing partners in every way possible. In particular, by participating in specialized exhibitions where we present their products and find foreign buyers for them.

– Companies with a small staff – yours is just such a case – feel the mobilization pull of even a few employees more painfully than large ones. And unlike those where mostly women work.

– We also have women in the team and we’ve already given three men to the army. We haven’t resorted to staff re-completion, we’re working with a smaller staff for now. So, we can say that we haven’t yet felt a staff shortage that would put the company on the brink of survival.

I should mention that we’ve also given transport for the army’s needs and in general, we’ve switched our assistance to our defenders to a regular, almost daily regime.

– So the company’s affairs are going well. And this means that even in the current time, it’s possible to develop. What are your plans in this direction?
– We’ve planned to build a new modern warehouse in the region near the capital, to increase our presence in the region with the help of an even larger assortment and availability of goods. We’ve bought land for it and have moved on to the next stages of this project.

– So we wish you success in dealing with this task.