Komus

Company was founded in 1990. Komus is a leader of Russian market of office supplies today. It is one of the biggest suppliers of paper and card board in Russia, also paper of poligraph types.

Komus has the first place in market of product and sale of plastic package. The product is deliveried to Russian development of food industry - cold industrial complex "Nestle-ice-cream", "Altervest", "Ice-Fili", confectionery "A. Korkunov", "Cadbery", "SladCo", company Macdonalds and many others.

Strategic

The strategy of the company is built on the complex service clients in whole of Russia and development in corporate form. For that Komus is developmenting all types of sale office and school items (retail, corporate and wholesale), and it expands the number of region centers, and developments the production.

Orientation of policy

• Sale office goods
• Sale paper and board of office and polygraph sorts
• Proruct paper goods, plastic package, office goods
• Sale office equipment and consumables
• Sale medical goods
• Sale office furniture
• Accordance polygraph services and product souvenir-advertising production.

Parnters

Company is an official distributor of 110 product leaders from 15 countries of America, Europe and Asia. Some of them are - "Xerox", "Canon", "Epson", "Hewlett-Packard", "SAX", "UPM-Kymmene", "M-Real", "StoraEnso", "NEUSIEDLER Syktyvkar", "MAP", "BIC", "Koh-I-Noor", "Parker", "Georgia-Pasific", "General Electric", International Paper OAO "Svetogorsk", OAO "Kotlasskyi CBK", OAO "St. Petersburg CPC", OAO "Bumizdelya". The assortment of goods has more than 15 000 items, its possibility is more in 3 times than by competitors.

Geography

The Company has the most branchy network of regions on the market. Komus has a single national retail network of goods for office and school - 60 shops of the company in 14 regions of Russia.There are about 1000 persons work in regions, also Komus has development own production at 7 factories for making food package, office and paper goods, self-adhesive label.

The Corporation is a leader of service market for coprorate clients office supplies. More than 130 000 Russian and West Developments were included in the number of corporate clients.

Personal

Komus is company with over 4000 employees. We have multilevel system for learing personnel and 4 study centers.
 

Our goal is to be the socially-oriented company delivering the world level of services & goods.
 

400 children of company employees were granted summer camp vacations for free.
Overall, over 2% of the company profit was assigned to social programs.
 

 

The Business Center


 

The largest retail network of stationery and office materials in Russia

• 54 retail sales centers in Russia, 34 of them in Moscow

The biggest corporate sales operator in Russia

• The number of customers served exceeds 105,000
• 24 corporate sales centers, including eight in Moscow
• Over 300 sales representatives

The biggest wholesales company in Russia

• Over 1,500 customers all over Russia

The biggest regional branch network in Russia

• 14 regional branch offices in the biggest cities of Russia

The biggest logistics operator in Russia

• Storage space exceeds 91,000 sq. meters
• More than 5,000 orders are dispatched a day
• The number of delivery trucks exceeds 650 a day

Modern sales, logistics, and IT technologies applied

• TQM method to maintain highest level of service quality
• CRM method to manage relationships with the customers
• New technologies are implemented to better serve the customers: Call Centers, Product catalogues, the Internet Service Portal

Modern sales, logistics, and IT technologies applied:

• SCM system to maintain product availability
• ERP own multi component system
• MPM corporate customer support system

Own production and pre-sale preparation capabilities:

• The production of ring binders. BANKO (Bantex) plant is opened in Kolomna. Headcount: 50; production 50,000 binders a day
• Disposable plastic dishes production. Production plants are located in Golitsyno, Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg. Total headcount: 200
• Paper rolls production for fax, cash, and medical machines. Production plants are located in Golitsyno. The paper production volume under TM MEGA exceeds 10,000 tons a year; staff: 200.

 

Name	Product type	Status
UPM-Kymmene	Paper	Premium-partner
Stora Enso	Paper	Official distributor
International Paper	Paper	Official distributor
MONDI BP	Paper	Premium-partner
Map Paper (M-real)	Paper	Official distributor
Xerox	Paper and expenditure materials	Official distributor
Canon	Paper and expenditure materials	Premium-partner
3M	Stationery goods, medical goods	Official distributor
Casio	Office equipment	Official partner
Esselte	Stationery goods	Official distributor
Edding	Stationery goods	Official distributor
Sax	Stationery goods	Exclusive representative
Ico	Stationery goods	Exclusive representative
Nivo	Stationery goods	Exclusive representative
Bantex	Stationery goods	Exclusive representative
Senator	Stationery goods	Official distributor
Koh-I-Noor	Stationery goods	Official distributor
Universal	Stationery goods	Official distributor
Hebel	Stationery goods	Official distributor
Pilot	Stationery goods	Official distributor
Kores	Stationery goods	Sole distributor
Leitz	Stationery goods	Official distributor
Trodat	Stationery goods	Official distributor
Becton Dickinson	Medical goods	Official distributor

 

1. According to the Comcon Research International report (Fall 03) the Komus brand had:
   - 94% recognition in Moscow
   - 78% recognition among corporate clients
    
2. Komus grabbed 34% of the formatted office paper market in Russia in 2006 selling over 150,000 tons of paper
    
3. The polygrafic papers & cardboard division sold 60,000 tons of polygrafic paper and cardboard in 2006, that made about 17% of the Russian market
    
4. The Plastic packing division won approximately 38% of the market
    
5. Komus has occupied 115 place in a rating FORBES top 200, the largest companies of Russia

• In a rating of National trading Association "TOP 200 Russian retail trades" - a rating of 200 best retail companies of 2005 Komus has occupied 61 place.
• On results of 2005, Company "Komus" became the unique operator of the writing market including in the list of best, in an annual rating 50 of the largest national retail company by Russia newspapers "Businessman".
• Trading corporation "Komus", has received Grand prix V of Anniversary competition "Gold networks - 2006" in a nomination "Best of the Best".
• Company "Komus", became the winner of competition "The Best Retail Network - 2006", the Economic development lead by Committee and an industrial policy of Saint Petersburg.

• Development of database about the goods which will allow to give to clients the additional information on the goods. Date of input is the end of first quarter of 2007.
• Development of a logistical infrastructure of the company. The project "Terminal". Construction of the new automated warehouse in near Moscow suburbs - Domodedovo, on a site 7 hectares. The budget 45 million dollars. Term by the end of 2007.