TOP ESTONIAN ENTERPRISES

RIVERSIDE OÜ
The Most Competitive
Small and Medium-sized
Enterprise
2009
Photo: Toomas Tuul
JÜRI PÕLD
On the way
to the new markets
Riverside started from the countryside,
Pala from Jõgeva area, the place
where one of the managers of the construction
company Jüri Põld originates
from. At the better times 60-70 people
were employed in the company, today
the market situation is slightly more
complicated and the fact has become
clear that there is no sense to do
everything with own forces. One fact
among others is interesting: how often
have you heard of the company that
takes time to train its employees,
knowing that therefore the sales decreases
anyway? Such decision was
though made in Riverside in 2007. In a
year’s time the construction market
collapsed, today in 2009 the situation is
even more complicated. The same construction
company works and stays at
the market quite successfully regardless
of everything.
We meet the manager of the company
one morning when he has quite
little time. After the interview he
rushes to the airport with the car
to fly fast to Ukraine. Also several
other construction companies look
into this country and many others do
not dare to enter the Ukrainian market.
But at the beginning we start
from the reasons of establishing the
company.
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