New importer to South Korea
Moneral has signed a cooperation agreement with South Korean company Finn Trade for importing and distributing Moneral products in South Korea. The company's online shop can be found from http://www.finnshop.co.kr

Finn Trade's sales manager Hansung Ryu says that it's an interesting challenge to import so new type of products to South Korea. "I have a very positive feeling about the success
of Moneral products in Korea. Today, Koreans tend to use very unique, but natural products, and Moneral fits into this description."

Hansung Ryu visited the Moneral -factory in Kiuruvesi exploring the raw material procurement and production.

New importer to Netherlands
First Impression Styling has started to import Moneral -products to Netherlands. Their webshop can be found from http://www.firstimpressionshop.com

Moneral Ltd won the first price at exhibition in Moskow
Moneral Ltd’s products won the first price at the exhibition HouseHold Expo (6.-9.4.2010) in Moscow. HouseHold Expo is an international dinner service and interior design exhibition. The criteria to win the price were a pure design, which simply represents ecological spirit with a beautiful shape and high quality.

The Products of Moneral came to success also in Paris during the fair Maison & Objet in January this year. This fair is an unavoidable international meeting for the Design branch. The wooden plates of Moneral were at a stand where various environmental friendly design products were presented.

The plates were nearly snatched out of our hands by our EU guests
Viewrestaurant Tuikku, which is on the top of Levi, introduced Moneral’s cocktailplates with most valuable way. Plates were used in cocktailparty in EU ministry-congress at the beginning of october.
- The plates were nearly snatched out of our hands by our EU guests. Apparently we have to provide more plates, because many of the guests wanted to take the plate as a gift with them and we didn’t have the heart to say no, tells Hille Kuusisto owner of the restaurant.

She told that they provide Moneral’s plates, because they wanted to offer foreign honour guests finnish exotic and wooden plates suited to restaurants milieu. Besides our idea is to offer our guest experiences and these plates suit for that purpose excellently.

In the future they will use plates in Tuikku’s outdoor and cocktail occasions. Idea is to make an menu around the plates.

www.tuikku.fi

Japanese Ambassador Visits Moneral’s Factory
The Japanese ambassador Shigeo Kondo and his wife visited Moneral’s factory in Kiuruvesi on Tuesday, 1 July. Mr Kondo was keen to find out more about the factory after having received Moneral’s products as gifts on earlier occasions. Mr Kondo was fascinated by the simple, natural design that is so emblematic of Moneral’s products. According to him, the Japanese particularly appreciate these aspects in design. He thought that the possibility of personalising the products with laser-marking was a great idea. He saw this as a way of making the products even more unique, and turning them into fantastic personal presents.

According to Mr Kondo, the Japanese ambassador, Moneral’s design is perfect for Japanese tastes.

Moneral in Finnish Design Year book
Moneral’s Elicia-range has been chosen to Finnish Design Yearbook 2006. Book introduces Finnish design pearls to international public, it will be published on 29 th of may. Publisher is Design Forum Finland.

Finnish national team of chefs were testing Elicia Range
In Mestarit-Magazine 1/2006, which is published by Suomen Keittiömestarit ry, Finish national team of chefs were testing Elicia range and their opinion was that Elicia is suitable for restaurant use. It was said also that Elicia gives added value for setting, especially in themerestaurants and in special occasions. Plate was easy to handle, because it’s so light, and it brought out food beatifully. From five possible chefs hat got Elicia three, so the product was good and professionals said that it’s well-grounded to use Elicia.