Kerry Pianoforte08.10.05
Savvy business professionals know that being in the right place at the right time is essential to success in any business endeavor. Manufacturers of automotive refinish products have been working overtime through expansions, acquisitions and partnerships to get their products and services to reach markets around the world that offer the greatest potential, such as Eastern Europe.
After the collapse of communism more than a decade ago, a number of former Soviet Republics in Eastern Europe have embraced capitalism. With Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania slated to join NATO and the European Union, suppliers to the automotive refinishing market�such as BASF, Akzo Nobel and Sherwin Williams�have noted there is considerable demand potential in these still-burgeoning markets.
AP Trading, the Estonian importer for BASF's Glasurit automotive refinishes, opened the country's first training center for automotive refinishes in Tallinn, Estonia. The center is the result of a cooperation between AP Trading and the State College of Mechanics at Tallinn. Glasurit GmbH will also use this new facility for local and internatio
After the collapse of communism more than a decade ago, a number of former Soviet Republics in Eastern Europe have embraced capitalism. With Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania slated to join NATO and the European Union, suppliers to the automotive refinishing market�such as BASF, Akzo Nobel and Sherwin Williams�have noted there is considerable demand potential in these still-burgeoning markets.
AP Trading, the Estonian importer for BASF's Glasurit automotive refinishes, opened the country's first training center for automotive refinishes in Tallinn, Estonia. The center is the result of a cooperation between AP Trading and the State College of Mechanics at Tallinn. Glasurit GmbH will also use this new facility for local and internatio
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