Häfele, the interior solutions specialist with a legacy that is now a 100-years strong, moves its state-of-the-art Design Showroom to a new location in Kandy, Sri Lanka, on the 18th of August 2023. The spacious 2000 square feet showroom unites globally acclaimed interior trends with innovative functionality through interactive and functional display settings; bringing every imaginable design to reality. Expected at the launch is Ms. Marie Antonia von Schönburg, Chief Delegate of German Industry and Commerce in Sri Lanka who will inaugurate the showroom together with Mr. Frank Schloeder (Managing Director, Hafele South Asia). Hafele is a popular brand within Sri Lanka known for its extensive range of interior fittings and appliances as well as its well-spread service network. The company started operations in Sri Lanka with a primary focus on project sales. Over the years, with the establishment of its distribution network as well as the state-of-the-art design showrooms (in Colombo and Moratuwa), the company has strengthened its retail operations across the country. The opening of the new design showroom in the centrally located Kandy region will enable us to cater to and reach a wider customer base. Kandy being the administrative capital of the Central Province of Sri Lanka acts as the focal hub for neighbouring regions and is located along strategic routes that consistently attract locals and tourists alike. General Manager- Sales & Marketing, Hafele Lanka Mr. Pawan Singh on the onset of the launch says, “We are delighted about the launch of our New Design Centre at Kandy. While we have been successfully catering to our customers through our earlier showroom, the growing introductions in our range and the need to showcase them to our customers, required us to move to a bigger premise. This new design centre is testament of our commitment to bringing the latest in design and innovations to our customers in Sri Lanka. It displays cutting-edge kitchen systems manufactured at our factory in Kenzingen, Germany, state-of-the-art architectural and furniture lighting solutions, technologically advanced range of appliances, functionally aesthetic range of furniture and wardrobe solutions and much more. Our team of experts are looking forward to welcoming you and assist you in helping you unlock your design inspirations.” The expansive Kandy Design Showroom is spread across a total area of 2000 square feet, showcasing the entire Hafele interior solutions assortment as well as exciting products that the Company has launched over the last few months. The showroom is located at Peradeniya Road in the heart of Kandy and will serve as the ideal place for architects, designers, channel partners, kitchen manufacturers as well as end customers to witness the best-in-class interior solutions in live settings, for their projects or homes respectively. Visit the newly launched Häfele Kandy Design Showroom at No 752, Peradeniya Road, Kandy. Häfele’s Design Showroom Concept: Design concepts and ideas can be better understood when they are experienced in LIVE set-ups. This is the ideology that backs the company’s initiative of establishing state-of-the-art design showrooms; where customers can walk in and experience world-class functionality, seamlessly rooted in latest global design trends. Quite inherent to what they do, Häfele is a strong believer of the mantra that ‘Form follows Function’ and the trick is to combine Functionality with Aesthetics and make them work in almost unperceivable unison. This is explicitly displayed in all Häfele Design Showrooms worldwide. To this experience of functionality, Häfele adds a competent dimension of designing services for kitchens and wardrobes ably extended to customers by an expert team of Designers who exclusively operate from these Design Showrooms. The typical layout of any of Häfele’s Design Showrooms includes real-time displays of the company’s many product functionalities including a LIVE kitchen which is equipped with storage areas, appliances and other utilities. Häfele. The first 100 years. 2023 marks a huge milestone in the history of our company. Häfele is now one hundred years old, and we are taking the opportunity of this extraordinary anniversary to pause and reflect intensively on the growth that’s taken us from a small hardware store in the Black Forest (Germany) to a global company. Innovative strength, courage and optimism: these are qualities which have accompanied Häfele from the very beginning and also characterised the founders back in the day. The original 2-man business which was a specialist hardware store led by Adolf Häfele and Hermann Funk, has developed into a global company, Häfele SE & Co KG, with subsidiaries in 38 countries, 8,000 employees and more than 1,50,000 customers. Standing on the threshold of the next phase of our journey, we realise that it was courage and optimism along with an unwavering alliance with our employees, vendors, suppliers and above all our customers, that enabled us to change continuously, to break new ground and not only to think ahead, but also to actively implement these forward-thinking ideas. As we foray into the next 100 years, Hafele presents its future-oriented brand purpose - “Maximising the value of space. Together.” We aim to strengthen our brand position in South Asia by emphasizing on the meaning of this purpose line, i.e. Hafele strives to provide the best of the best (maximizing) benefits (value) through its versatile solutions and services for different living and working spaces ranging from hotels, offices, institutes and homes as well as different interior applications like kitchens, living rooms & bedroom furniture, doors and interior partitions, wardrobes as well as furniture and room lighting. And this we strive to achieve in partnership (together) with all entities within our ecosystem from our suppliers, partners (Industry and Project), channels (distributors, dealers and franchisees), influencers (architects, designers, contractors and carpenters) right up to the final beneficiary i.e., our end customer. In short, with our new purpose line we aim to co-create an environment for our endearing customers where they can enjoy the multiplied benefits of their living and working spaces.
AHK Sri Lanka conducted its Agriculture Sector Committee meeting on 14th August 2023 at the Export Development Board (EDB). Ms. Marie Antonia von Schönburg, Chief Delegate of AHK Sri Lanka, and Dr. Kingsley Bernard, Chairman EDB, co-chaired the meeting. During the discussion, the Chairman of EDB announced the EDB's strategy for 2024 and 2025 and informed the members of AHK Sri Lanka about the sectors that had been added to the National Export Strategy. Furthermore, EDB announced the establishment of the National Organic Control Unit (NOCU) and the National Packaging Centre on EDB premises to assist Sri Lankan exporters. During the conversation, Ms. von Schönburg commented on the prospects for Sri Lankan exporters in the German market and highlighted the significance of strategic promotion and communication to penetrate the highly competitive market. Members of the AHK Sri Lanka Agriculture Sector Committee discussed their challenges and proposed some ideas to EDB.