RTC Proffice Experience targets 17% higher turnover by yearend

RTC Proffice stationery and office supplies distributor, the biggest company part of RTC group controlled by businessman Octavian Radu, last year reached 32.5m-euro turnover, almost half the 2008 level, after undergoing a revamping process that saw 280 employees made redundant. “Last year, the office and paper supplies market plummeted amid the 58% lower demand from large companies and 28% from small companies,” stated Relu Cirjan, CEO of the stationery and office supplies unit of RTC group. RTC Proffice Experience is the biggest of the three companies part of the stationery and office supplies unit of the group. Despite falling demand for stationery and office supplies last year, the company invested 5.1m euros in a 10,000 square metre warehouse. In 2009, the company also changed its sales strategy. The company’s turnover reached 8m euros in the first quarter of this year, almost flat from last year. “I believe, though, we’ll end the year with 17% higher turnover, to 37.3m euros as we gain new clients,” Cirjan stated.