12/04/2011

FIANDRE COMES TO HO CHI MINH CITY

April starts with a new opening: a showroom in Ho Chi Minh City

The new showroom in the heart of one of the city’s most dynamic neighbourhoods was inaugurated before a public including top architects and designers from all over Vietnam.
The opening ceremony was also attended by prominent Italian authorities: Ambassador Lorenzo Angeloni, Honorary Consul Carlo Anzon and Foreign Trade Institute Director Marco Saladini.

The inauguration ceremony began with a speech by Mr. Fook Do, president of Fiandre’s local partner VietCeramics, who expressed his pride at being the first to present Fiandre products to architecture professionals in Vietnam. Ambassador Angeloni congratulated Fiandre on its decision to invest in Vietnam, a fast-growing country where Italian-made products are much appreciated. In his speech, the Ambassador cited the four pillars of Fiandre’s success: its profound roots in Italian culture, its advanced technology, and its focus on the environment and on the cultural dimension. 
He concluded by emphasising that "Fiandre has come up with products and technologies that were unthinkable until only a few years ago".
The event concluded with a speech by Country Manager Giandomenico Mercurio, who thanked all those present on behalf of Fiandre and in the name of the company’s President and CEO Graziano Verdi.
He sincerely thanked VietCeramics for having initiated an important partnership with a leader in its field. His speech focused on the new ACTIVE production technology, the large sizes tiles in the Extreme collections and a number of important references in Asia.
The event was followed by a buffet at which all the guests had an opportunity to talk and compare ideas in a pleasant environment created using Fiandre products.
The walls are covered with Calacatta Gold Extreme Active tiles in the 150x75 cm size and Onice Extreme Active 150x75 cm tiles.
The floor is covered with Serie100 in the colour White50, adding light and motion to the whole room. On the outside, Luminar OptoGold 60x60 tiles cover the walls up to the full height of the building, which is visible from far off, marking the place where locals can now find Fiandre’s new technologically advanced tiles.
Once more Fiandre confirms that it is ahead of its times by investing in the future, in the continent of Asia, the home of true growth and value creation today.