ELKO Grupa JSC Has Become the Official Distributor of SAPPHIRE Products in Croatia

ELKO Grupa JSC, Latvia's biggest enterprise and one of the leading wholesalers
of IT products and components in the Eastern Europe, has become the official
distributor of SAPPHIRE products in Croatia. 
SAPPHIRE is a key AMD Technology partner, supplier and manufacturer of ATI
based Graphics Accelerators and Mainboards. 

Cooperation initiated in order to strengthen relationships with existing
customers and attract new ones, using advantages of the official distributor.
The official distributor status guarantees more competitive prices and provides
clients with the full range of SAPPHIRE products. Croatia clients are offered
mainly video boards and mainboards on the AMD/ATI solutions, as well as
multimedia products - digital photo frames, TV tuners, etc. 

Up to now, ELKO Grupa has been distributing SAPPHIRE products in Eastern Europe
- Russia and Ukraine where collaboration is very strong and in the Baltic
states. 
In Croatia, the company ELKO Grupa has been operating since 2000 and the
country is the distal location in represented Central and Eastern European
region. 

SAPPHIRE
SAPPHIRE designs, manufactures and distributes a complete range of ATI based
products - from mainstream level to the state-of-the-art Radeon graphic
accelerator cards. 
SAPPHIRE is the major manufacturer for some of the top 10 Tier 1 OEM customers
worldwide with a manufacturing capacity of up to 1.8 million pcs per month.
SAPPHIRE never compromises on quality with factory being both ISO 9001 and ISO1
4001 certified to meet the industry's strictest standards and QC criteria
today. 
SAPPHIREs ability to optimize designs keeps costs down in the mainstream and
delivers industry leading performance across a wide range of product families.
Innovation in cooler technology has differentiated from other suppliers and
allows to deliver quiet yet powerful solutions. For more information please
visit website at www.sapphiretech.com. 

ELKO Grupa
ELKO Grupa JSC was founded in 1993. It is Latvia's biggest enterprise and since
2007 has operated with an annual turnover of greater than one billion USD. The
main operational direction of the enterprise is the wholesale of computer
engineering and electronic goods in the Baltic States, Central and Eastern
Europe and CIS countries. 
The enterprise represents more than 80 producers and sells their goods to
approximately 6300 retailers, local providers of computer engineering solutions
and system integrators. ELKO Grupa offers more than 9000 product names from the
world's most famous suppliers - Acer, Intel, Seagate, Samsung, Sony, TomTom,
Western Digital and others. Currently, there are more than 340 people employed
in the enterprise. ELKO Grupa JSC is owned by several private persons, as well
as by IT Investīcijas JSC, Amber Trust investment fund and investment funds
related to East Capital Asset Management. 

Further information:
Kristine Saulriete
ELKO Grupa JSC
Director of Marketing and Communications
Telephone: + 371 6709 3214
Fax: + 371 6709 3299
E-mail: kristine_saulriete@elkogroup.com 
http://www.elkogroup.com