Cosentino Group opened a new Cosentino Center in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel, designed to centralize the service for and distribution of its products for the whole country. The investment made by the Spanish multinational for this first phase that has been set up has reached 2 million Euros, destined mainly for the facility in the Petah Tikva district (Tel Aviv). The Center has a total floor area of ??1,800 sq. meters for warehousing and offices, of which 250 sq. meters are devoted to the showroom and exhibition of products and design solutions. The facility can store up to 2,500 slabs.
Cosentino’s operation in this new market is headed by Itay Shimony, area manager for Cosentino Israel, and will, for the time being, lead an initial team of eight people who will be responsible for meeting the needs of the Israeli market. The inauguration of the center was attended by Fernando Carderera, Spanish Ambassador to Israel, as well as the Embassy’s Trade Office Delegate, ??Emilio López Viñuela. The multinational was represented at the event by Eduardo Alfonso Martínez-Cosentino, global sales director of Cosentino Group among others.
“Following Turkey last year, Israel represents a new qualitative leap in the region of the Middle East for our expansion strategy based on establishing ourselves with our own assets,” said Martínez-Cosentino. “Moreover, our presence in Israel is particularly significant for us as it was one of the first markets where we distributed Silestone outside Spain in the beginning, thanks largely to the support of the Shimony family”.
Today, Cosentino Group has over 90 Centers worldwide and distributes its products in more than 80 countries, with operations based on its own assets in 26 of them, including the Israeli market.