On July 7 Nolina EOOD-Stara Zagora, a leading supplier with the largest share in Bulgaria in the sector of PVCpanels and profiles, turned 20 years. We celebrated our anniversary and successful business development with a festive evening at the 4-star spa hotel Kalista at Starozagorski bani , which was attended by more than 160 guests, partners and friends from the country and abroad.

 

 

The popular radio and TV host Drago Simeonov hosted the event. Excited, emotional and proud Dinyo Dimov presented the company retelling about the start 20 years ago.  “The year 1997 which the people from our generation and a few generations before and after us will always remember as a time of trials which we had to confront as a people and country”, he shared. “But I prefer to emphasize the stimulus it turned out to be for us to look for ways to do business and to participate actively in the building and development of proper business environment. It does not matter whether it was easy or difficult. What matters is that we made it possible”, said the manager of Nolina EOOD. He shared that the idea of the family business was his – when he was making renovation at his home, he realized there was a lack of some products and hence a market niche and his family fully supported the idea. Certainly, they were worried about the unknown, but their conviction and faith gave them the strength to turn Nolina into a dream. Where does the name Nolina come from? This is a beautiful and resilient plant, the favorite of Dinyo Dimov’s wife – Lyubka Dimova. It is also known as the Traveler’s tree. With emotional and sentimental objects and artefacts the guests had the opportunity to experience significant events of these 20 years, such as ..a fax from Belgium with the decision of the world known company DumaPlast to select Nolina as a representative for Bulgaria and Eastern Europe.

 

 

Serge De Rider, export manager of the world leader in the sector of PVC panels and profiles DumaPlast, greeted those celebrating and the guests, expressed his satisfaction with the collaboration and declared his support for the next 20 years.

 

 

Among the guests of the Stara Zagora company were also the partners from PinarPlast – Turkey, represented by the owners Yasmin Bekar and Serkan Chifteoglu, Monika Obeada – commercial manager for Europe of the Polish company Decora, Georgi Gyoshev – commercial manager of the Danish company Primo Profiles, export manager of the American Siding Harun Ozdil, who also greeted the guests. Respectfully and with unhidden emotion they expressed their satisfaction with their work with Nolina EOOD.  

 

 

Nolina started up in 1997 with а 350 sq.m. rented warehouse in Stara Zagora; three years later it had warehouses in Sofia and Varna. The showroom in Stara Zagora was opened in 2007, and in Burgas – in 2010. In 2016 Nolina opened its own 3000 sq.m. warehouse in Sofia and a 500 sq.m. showroom, and its total warehouse area is already  6000 sq.m. As of now our regular distributor customers are 800 – including all national chains and construction hypermarkets.

 

 

World innovations were presented at the festive meeting: a brand new product patented a month ago in Belgium – water proof floor parquet and special cladding for quick renovation of wet areas which Nolina will market next year. New décor products were also shown – floor skirting boards which are to be put on the Bulgarian market.

Do-it-yourself products are in great demand worldwide. People are looking for products they can handle easily themselves, thus saving money for installation. In Bulgaria the lack of handymen and labor cost increase justify our expectation of an even greater market growth. Our customers are facilitated to renovate their home themselves with our products.  The manufacturers themselves are working in this direction, and it is for a reason that the motto of DumaPlast  is „A woman can also renovate the bathroom“.

 

 

There were drums and bagpipes at the festive evening on occasion of the 20th anniversary of Nolina, Etno Zara dance formation made a great performance with Bulgarian national dance, wonderful New Beginning also contributed to the festive mood. It was a real birthday party with a huge cake and fireworks to put a proper end to the festive evening.

On occasion of its 20th anniversary, Nolina offered a -20% discount on 20 products for 20 days.

You can see a video of our celebration here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lb62m8f510cgq8l/NOLINA%20klip.mp4?dl=0