Dankotuwa opens flagship store

Dankotuwa Porcelain opened its flagship showroom at Union Place on Thursday . The showroom was declared open by Lalith Heengama, Chairman of Environmental Resources Investments PLC the holding company of Dankotuwa Porcelain PLC. The new store is much more spacious and enables customers to browse more leisurely to pick their choice. The white ware is displayed in one separate floor which will enable retail customers to see the entire range and also more convenient for the HORECA (hotel, restaurant, catering) customers to pick the shapes they fancy. On this floor all the shape ranges are displayed separately along with details of the designers.

Dankotuwa decided on this expansion of its retail network after having observed a significant interest among the retail and HORECA customers for its products. Many hoteliers are now seeking the special shapes available at Dankotuwa which boasts that they have the widest range of shapes in Sri Lanka. The special hotel ware shapes designed by foreign designers have been very popular amongst hotels especially for their theme restaurants.

?Dankotuwa Porcelain is today a very strong brand and is the top of the mind product when looking for lifestyle, gifting and entertaining, and it is accepted as a high quality product with superior whiteness, strong body, chip and scratch resistance and withstands thermal shock,? said Giyanie Fernando, Manager (Corporate Affairs) who is also the brand manager. She said most customers at the Colpetty showrooms although having a good store experience complain about parking. ?Here at Union Place there is plenty of parking through the Foster Lane entrance.?

Daisy Karunaratne, Manager (Corporate Sales) stated that lack of display space at the Colpetty showroom was often an obstacle because many of the hoteliers had to be taken to the display room at the factory in Dankotuwa to show the full range. Now with an entire floor dedicated to white ware shapes, customer convenience is enhanced. Daisy also adds that hotel and restaurant business has increased significantly because of the refurbishment of many hotels and also because of Dankotuwa Porcelain?s ability to supply with very short lead times. She also states that many big corporates like banks, large conglomerates and hospitals now seek to have their branded tea services with their logo, and Dankotuwa has supplied many such customised solutions. Tea companies are also major corporate customers today and Dankotuwa has made new shapes according to customer designs.

To celebrate the opening of the new showroom Dankotuwa will be offering a 20% discount for customers on June 21, 22 and 23.