Metinvest boosts its Internet presence
Metinvest launches the web portal of its Steel and rolled products division Sales Service and the websites of the four Metinvest sales channels.
All the websites offer comprehensive navigation and extensive client toolkit. Advanced search allows the user to find necessary information not only on the websites pages, but also in the interactive product catalogue by special characteristics, e.g. by steel grade or technical properties.
The portal’s key element is the exquisite interactive map, which allows the user in any location of the world to find detailed information about purchasing and delivery opportunities for Metinvest products in any region of interest. With the help of the map’s interactive instruments, client can send the inquiry to the appropriate representation straightaway or go to the website of the sales company, operating in the region of interest. For certain regions the user can choose between wholesale and retail sales.
The comprehensive information on the entire product mix can be found in the advanced product catalogue containing not only product types, sizes and steel grades, but also additional data on mechanical properties of products and their intended application. The catalogue encapsulates convenient tool for sorting by various parameters, and the sales channels websites offer access to the price lists for most steel products. By means of product catalogues at the websites of each sales company, a user can form individual products list and send the electronic request to inquire on the possibility of delivery in the desired quantity and products set to the regional or product manager. For those users, who want to stay informed and get the latest news and prices the sites offer the easiest way – RSS.
“We have thoroughly analyzed our customers’ expectations and requirements and endeavoured to create a universal and comfortable instrument that will allow us to meet the needs of our clients worldwide more rapidly and raise the clients’ satisfaction in working with us. We carry out proactive trading policy and are sure that boosting our internet presence will enable us to make customer service even more individual, to bring or products closer to customers, to cover greater market share and to deliver the clients the uttermost ease working with us”, sais Andrey Parkhomchuk, Sales Service Director of Steel and rolled products division of METINVEST HOLDING, LLC.
Web portal of the Sales Service is:http://sales.metinvestholding.com
Websites of sales channels are:
Metinvest-Ukraine Ltd — www.metinvest-ukraine. com,Metinvest Eurasia Ltd — www.
metinvest-eurasia. com,Metinvest-SMC — www.metinvest-smc. com,Metinvest International SA — www.
metinvest-international. com
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Metinvest is an international vertically integrated mining and steel group of companies. Production facilities of Metinvest produce enough steelmaking raw materials to meet its own demand and to be the key supplier to major steelmaking companies in Ukraine, Europe and Asia.
The major shareholders of Metinvest are SCM Group (75% ownership) and Smart-Holding (25% ownership) partnering in Company’s management. The merger of mining and metals assets of SMC and Smart-Holding has started in 2007 and will have been accomplished in 2009.
METINVEST HOLDING, LLC is the managing company of Metinvest Group.
Sales Service of Steel and Rolled Products Division includes:
Metinvest International SA (formerly known as Leman Commodities SA) is the distribution channel of Steel and Rolled Products Division’s Sales Service. It is responsible for export sales of steel products produced by Metinvest Group steelmaking companies and other enterprises outside Ukraine and CIS. Metinvest International has representative offices in 11 countries of the world, which constitute the global sales network covering all major regional market segments. Particularly, the company is represented in Istanbul (Turkey), Beirut (Lebanon), Shanghai and Beijing (China), Milano (Italy),
Metinvest Eurasia Ltd is the wholesale channel of Steel and Rolled Products Division’s Sales Service, Metinvest Group in Russia. The company is responsible for selling the production of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, Yenakiyevo Iron and Steel Works, as well as Makeyevka Iron and Steel Works on the market of Russia.
