Koton Lipscani 37 Store Launch

Bucharest, November 25th – on Lipscani 43, in a recently restored building, keeping the architectural structure and details, took place the oppening cocktail for the newest Koton store.
With the participation of His Excellency the Ambassador of Turkey, Osman Koray Ertas, Mr. Mukerrem Aksoy, Turkish Commercial Attache and Mrs Cristina Chiriac, President of the National Association of Entrepreneurship, the new store became alive under the electrical sounds of the Amadeus quartet.
Burak Akbulat, General Director of Koton Romania, spoke about the new store concerning the investment and also regarding the new collections that are now in store.
Lipscani Store was a challenge both in terms of investment and implementation. The investment was of 6.5 millions EUR in the building and refurbishment. The process needed for the store opening took 12 months of assiduous work.



‘We consider this shop as part of our approach to Romanian Market in terms of our presence in strategic and important places for the community. The Historical center is an area where our customers spend their free time and enjoy an authentic place with cultural events. We want to be closed to them where they like to spend their time therefore we have chosen this site.’ declared Burak Akbulat in the closing of his speech at the opening event.

Anca Serea, Geanina Ilies, Dana Rogoz, Diana Dumitrescu and many other public figures have gladly joined at the oppening cocktail. With the ocassion of this opening cocktail, the ladies and also the men, had the opportunity to admire the most recent collections that became real under the surveillance of Richard Isham Sardouk, Chief Creative Officer at Koton, since 21th of October 2015, reporting to Gülden Yılmaz. Richard Isham Sardouk has more than twenty years of experience in trend forecasting and design where he served at numerous world-class companies in New York, Paris and London. His job experiences include the most recent assignment at WGSN as Executive Vice President of Mindset, a position he has held since 2014 where he was responsible of the global advisory services.

With a surface of 1850 sqm on three levels the Koton store from Lipscani welcomes the first visitors and clients starting November 26th, with a daily schedule from 10:00 AM to 22:00 PM

About KOTON
Koton was founded in 1988, in Istanbul and is a market leader in Turkey in the fashion area, having 8.200 employees and 445 stores, in 25 countries.
KOTON’s approach is customer centered and also on the creation of a variety of fashion articles according to trends, at the best price. There are many brands, to sports to urban fashion and high trends – nightwear to active while Koton also has a stand alone denim offering and same goes for men, kids, lingerie, beauty. Koton provides a rich collection made of many options and the product delivery is very frequent – refreshed weekly and monthly.

KOTON produces over 15.000 individual knitwear styles per year, being one of the most important fashion brands in the world.