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The project GEclose2EU is implemented by theEconomic Policy Research Center (EPRC) incooperation with Enterprise Georgia Agency.

This catalogue has been produced with the support of Sweden.

Toy ManufacturersCompany Catalogue


ABOUT THE PROJECT

This catalogue aims to increase visibility and awareness of 24 GeorgianToy Manufacturing companies in order to expand on the European marketand diversify their product internationally. The Toy Manufacturing sector hasa solid export potential, which can be utilized through new partnerships and collaboration, resulting in expanding locally and internationally. As an overall outcome these companies will play a significant role in and contribute to the economic development of Georgia.

The Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC) in partnership with Enterprise Georgia Agency and with the financial support of the Government of Sweden implements a project - GEclose2EU (Georgian Business Close to Europe).The project runs for three years (2018 - 2021) and aims to support SMEs in Georgia, to increase their visibility on European markets and create new opportunities for their internationalization.

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The Toy manufacturing industry is one of the fastest growing industries globally. According to the World Toys Association, the demand for toys in 2017 exceeded all expectations and the total revenue of the world toy market added up to 89 billion US dollars.

More than 70% of toys worldwide are manufactured in the People's Republic of China. The new standard adopted by the EU, imposing stricter regulations on imported toys, can facilitate local production and reduce the number of toys imported from China.

Toy production has become popular in Georgia in recent years. There are about 35 companies operating on the local market, most of which (90%) produce wooden, environmentally friendly, handmade toys.

The volume of the toy market in Georgia totals $20 million. The sector enjoys the following competitive advantages:

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In 2019, a technical regulation on toy safety was enacted, that is harmonized with the European legislation,and only toys that do not pose a threat to human life, health, environment and property in the conditionsof proper consumption will be approved to be placed on the local market;Within the framework of the Free Trade Agreement with the European Union, Georgia has become avery attractive location for European companies. Countries that do not have a free trade agreementwith the EU are also interested to enter the Georgian market;Quality raw materials (beech / linden-tree);Competitive prices;Different / unique design;Focusing on safe, environmentally friendly products;Logistic attractiveness;DCFTA.

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AntsiKids

Antsi is a newly established kids' room decor brand from Tbilisi. The company creates safe, functional and playful objects with natural wood and colourful textiles, based on local craftsmanship and know-how.

Antsi was created for parents in search of safe and quality products and for children wanting to play and have fun. Antsi Design is playful, ergonomic, practical and made to last. It draws its inspiration from modern trends combined with unique local craftsmanship. All creations are designed and made in Tbilisi, Georgia.

AntsiKids


36 Nutsubidze Street, Tbilisi, Georgia +995 599 111 [email protected] http://www.antskids.com/

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The company especially cares about children’s well-being, thus creating and selecting its products in line with safety requirements, carefully following EU standards and recommendations of the World Health Organization.

All wooden items are made of high-quality beech wood and all textile creations are manufactured from high quality materials. The work of detail, the careful finishing, the choice of the beautiful and safe materials, are at the heart of Antsi’s approach, providing detailed description of all materials used in the production process.



Chikatai

Chikatai - a stork, that believes that all fantastic things start with great music and thatis why the first tunes in every human’s life is of utmost importance! Most of the toys are musical and play melodies of the famous Georgian composer – Giya Kancheli.

All toys represent creatures of nature – animals, birds, water inhabitants. Chikatai believesthat people who love and care for animals are driven by kindness. That is why the company decided to help strengthen the bond between children and nature from the very beginning. Chikatai encourages little ones to care and preserve nature and its inhabitants.

Chikatai


5 Vasil Petriashvili Street, Tbilisi, Georgia +995 577 750 [email protected]://www.facebook.com/chikataitoys/

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Currently Chikatai employees are only women. The company aims at supporting women in business, as it is crucially important to strengthen their role in the society. Moreover, the company tries to hire housewives, giving them the opportunity to come out of their houses and generate their own income. The 3 years of experience has proven the importance of enabling women and serves as an excellent example of how little support has transformed and positively affected lives of women employed.



Dadari

Social enterprise Dadari was founded in 2018. The main goal of the enterprise is to produce high quality wooden handmade toys for children.

The social enterprise "Dadari" offers customers ecologically friendly wooden handmade toys: animalworld, world of birds, various educational and cognitive toys, puzzles, baby toys and etc. The company produces wooden handicrafts (souvenirs), wooden tableware, lamps, decorative items, individual orders. The materials used to make the products are safe for children's health, meeting all international safety standards. The Dadari toys are made of high-quality maple and lime wood, the surface is covered with oil, varnish and environmentally friendly paints that do not contain heavy metals and comply with the European standards of toy safety.

Dadari


Hualing - Tbilisi Sea Plaza, Tbilisi, 0152, Georgia +995 595 915 134 [email protected] http://www.dadari.ge/

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After 2 years of active work, the company was able to establish one of the most advanced and successful social enterprises, consisting of a team of people with different abilities, and producing high quality wooden handmade toys. The name of the enterprise "Dadari" is always associated with high quality, reliable and desirable toys produced in Georgia.

The Alliance of Social Enterprises of Georgia named Dadari among the Best 3 Enterprises of 2019. The company also became the finalists of the 2019 TBC Business Award, in the nomination: Distinguished for Social Responsibility.



Design LabGeorgia

Established in 2018, Design Lab boasts a team with a long-lasting experience of more than 10 years. The company manufactures environmentally friendly products, baby eco toys, baby eco furniture and accessories. The company's goals are to establish itself on the local, as well as to be able to present itself to the European and American markets with products of competitive capabilities.

Design LabGeorgia


28 Erekle Tatishvili Street, Tbilisi, Georgia+995 599 272 [email protected]://www.facebook.com/Bcreative.info/

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The company believes that home is the most important environment for learning and development. It is where children build their foundation--how to sit, stand, walk, sleep,eat, and dress. Children learn naturally in an environment where they have access to the right tools; an environment that is just their size. Design Lab team creates children's products that facilitate inclusion and independence. With adjustable pieces, designed with the child's size and needs in mind, children can grow as they participate in activities alongside the rest of the family.



GeoStyle

Geostyle Wood Art has been operating on the toy market since 2018 and produces beautifully crafted toys and gifts for babies and children. Geostyle creates development toys that help children to improve thinking, mobility, creativity, attention, fantasy and other skills. Wooden toys from Geostyle are classic and traditional toys that are 0% plastic and require no batteries! Geostyle designs and produces 100% ecologically friendly toys and various accessories from the wood of Georgian trees. The company actively strives to be orientated on children’s successful development and harmless future.

GeoStyle


2 Gabriel Salosi Avenue, Tbilisi, 0144, Georgia+995 595 338 [email protected]://www.geostylewoodart.strikingly.com/

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The mission of the company is to meet environmental responsibility and produce toys from eco-friendly and sustainably-harvested wood. Their vision is to become the recognized industry leader by the customers in the related businesses conforming to customer requirements of Georgia and foreign countries.



Kodala

“Kodala” is a social enterprise, founded in 2016. It mostly employs, trains andeducates socially vulnerable people and persons with disabilities to produce handmade environment-friendly toys, souvenirs and decorative accessories. In its production “Kodala” uses natural wooden materials made in Georgia, mostly – natural beech wood.

Kodala


23 Rustaveli Street, Tbilisi, 0118, Georgia+995 595 300 [email protected]://www.facebook.com/woodwork.kodala/

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The toys’ surface is covered with high quality eco-friendly paints and varnishes, which are absolutely safe for children and meet European Product Safety Standard EN 71.



Ku Biki

Triggered with a strong desire to create safe, eco-friendly wooden toys and compete with cheap and unsafe produce, Kubiki was established in 2015.

The mission of the company is to create high quality, educational and development toys, targeting not only the local market, but aiming for export as well. Having already sent its products to a number of foreign markets, Kubiki has proved the company manufactures high quality toys that comply with international standards.

Ku Biki


32 Moscow Avenue,Tbilisi, Georgia +995 597 710 [email protected]://www.kubiki.ge/

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Kubiki products are sold in all the main retail chains of Georgia, such as Super Toys, Pepela Toys, Goodwill, Agrohub, Nikora chain and etc. Kubiki toys are also available to purchase through online platforms like Glovo, Vendoo. Moreover, the company is actively cooperating with State owned (and not only) kindergartens. Kubiki is planning to extend production, focusing not only on wooden toys, but on plastic, plastizol, soft toys and foam carpets as well.



Logicum

Logicum makes development wooden puzzles, helping children to learn and improve skills, in a fun way.

Logicum


121 Tsinamdzgvrishvili Street, Tbilisi, Georgia +995 568 102 [email protected]://www.facebook.com/Logicumgeorgia/

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Designed for developing minds and tiny hands, Logicum’s wooden puzzles can give a child hours of enjoyment. Puzzles of all kinds are a great way for young children and older kids to increase their learning potential. There are many benefits to starting the kid off working on the large wooden ones that are easy to fit together. Their little hands can handle the larger pieces much easier than other types of puzzles. The more the kids engage, the more the hand-eye coordination will take control. Logicum toys are excellent for developing simple problem-solving skills, enhancing fine motor skills, and reinforcing pattern and shape recognition.



Madeline

The Doll House Madeline Ltd is a startup founded in 2018. The company identified 5 directions of toy production, which were divided into age categories: 0-2 years old (infant toys), 2-6 (development toys ), 6-9 (soft toys), 9-12 (puppet dolls). The Doll House Madeline also produces interior and portrait dolls.

Madeline


5 Maksim Gorki Street, Tbilisi, Georgia+995 558 350 [email protected]://www.facebook.com/madelinedollhouse/

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The Doll House Madeline prioritizes production of toys with natural fabrics, which are durable, washable and intended to develop cognitive, sensory and fine motor skills. Toys designed and produced for infants are also sold in gift sets. The best seller products are puppet toys and dolls for children 9-12 years old. The Doll houseis planning to start manufacturing finger puppets of the Georgian fairy tale characters for individual and gift-set sales as well.

The Doll House Madeline is the member of “Georgian Heritage Craft Association” and beneficiary of “Spark – Business Accelerator”. Recently, the company opened an online store on the world’s biggest handmade platform www.Etsy.com.



YourGreen Toy

“Your Green Toy” is the place to find a great variety of warm wooden toys for your little ones. The company brings fresh perspective to the toy market. The wooden toys line sets “Your Green Toy” apart by quality and unique designs at fair prices. The store offers toysfor infants and kids, manufactured with non-toxic materials, that comply with European Testing Standards.

YourGreen Toy


19 Rustavi Highway, Tbilisi, [email protected]+995 595 119 703http://www.ecotoys.b2c.ge/

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It’s such a joy to watch a child’s delight with a simple, beautiful toy. Because of its simplicity the toy opens up a myriad of creative choices and encourages education and self-development of children.


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Summit

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summit

Playing means learning, looking, feeling and experiencing.

From the first day of establishment, the company set itself the goal of manufacturing high-quality selected toys that promote the age-appropriate development of the child.So the company decided to make toys that would be sustainable and of high-quality wood.

Summit works with the best quality wood from beech, lime and maple. The company uses eco-friendly, resistant paints and adhesives that comply with the EU toy safety directive (EN71). They are absolutely harmless and do not pose any health risk for the child.

Summit manufactures kitchen utensils, work tools, machines and trains, dollhouses and toy furniture, fruits and vegetables, medical accessories, sweets, alphabet, cognitive toys, busy boards, bricks and etc.

Summit


Gldani V Micro ,Tbilisi, Georgia +995 555 537 [email protected] http://www.summit.ge/

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Why children and parents love wooden toys from Summit:

• Lovingly made by hand from high quality materials. • Made from the natural material wood. • Functional, appealing design.• Robust and long-lasting. • All Summit toys comply with EU standards.



Niko

Niko


The founder of the company – Nikoloz Avalishvili has been working on wood since childhood.In early years crafting various figures, toys and other goods was just a hobby. 2 years ago his toys and handicrafts were presented to the public on one of the exhibitions, which became the main driving force for him to start a business out of the hobby.

6 Kalistrate Kutateladze Street, Tbilisi, Georgia+995 551 159 [email protected]://www.facebook.com/nikowoodenrings/

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People liked his work of art, which was expressed in good sales and positive feedback. From the revenue of the sold handicrafts he bought several tools and continued expanding the business. This became the major motivation to create the brand – NIKO.



Olafinia

“Olafinia” means a toy in Megrelia, a historic region in the Western Georgia. Olafinia is a Georgian handmade toy uniting the spirit of the different regions of Georgia, its cultural peculierities, traditions and national costumes. The concept of the brand stands on reviving the Georgian roots, history and traditions, bringing national costumes to modern days and making them fun and easily understandable for children. Considering the fact that children learn better as they play, Olafinia tries to tell big stories with small details.

Olafinia


27 Z. Paliashvili Street, Tbilisi, Georgia+995 577 499 [email protected]://www.facebook.com/Olafinia/

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Characters of Olafinia come from different parts of Georgia, wear modernized traditional costumes, created on the basis of national costumes of different regions, have Georgian names, live in traditional authentic houses and take care of domestic animals.By collecting characters of Olafinia, every child creates a story of their own little Georgia.

Olafinia produces DIY toys, meaning that children sew their own toy themselves. After opening a box of Olafinia, one can find a printed fabric with selected character, needle and a thread, cotton to fill the sewed toy and clear instructions to make process easy and fun. Besides having fun, sewing and handicraft activities are beneficial for children's development, vigilance and motoric development.


Ornamenti

Ltd ‘’Ornamenti’’ is a small enterprise that creates wooden handicrafts, (such as toys, frames, clocks, books for children, notebooks and many more decorative items) foundedin 2016.

Why the company has chosen wood? Care for environment is one of the main objectives and core values of the Ornamenti team. Wood, as a precious material, is very importantfor the company. Therefore, each of their products is designed with love to nature and special care. Products are custom tailored. At this stage, "Ornamenti" products are sold only on the Georgian market, however the company plans to expand production and export to other countries. Most of the items produced are focused on promoting Georgian culture among young children and beyond.

Ornamenti


36 T. Tabidze Street, Tbilisi, 0179, Georgia+995 551 704 704 [email protected] http://www.ornamenti.ge/

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By launching its products onto the foreign markets, the company believes that it will contribute to popularizing Georgian culture. The company focuses of producing unisex products that might appeal to anyone. This is balanced by selecting universal colors for the handcrafts. The final products are covered with ecologically clean, natural paints in different colors. Ornamenti employs three people (1 male and 2 females).



AtomKids

ATOM Kids is an innovative company, aiming to break stereotypes and make serious science accessible, interesting and cool for children. The company believes that every child is a scientist. ATOM Kids believes that education with experiments is a tremendous vehicle for learning how things really work. Thus, the company encourages curiosity of children by means of fun activities and experiments.

ATOM Kids first appeared on the market in 2015, participating in various educational and innovation festivals, that drew great interest among children and parents. Nowadays, the company has 12 employees and owns an enterprise in village Natakhtari were both production and Research and Development (RD) units are located. The company is run mostlyby women who are scientists, psychologists, students from various disciplines, and IDPs livingin Tsilkani, Georgia.

AtomKids


10 Petriashvili Street+995 599 374 [email protected]://www.atomkids.ge/

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ATOM Kids offers various experimental games from the fields of STEAM - Science, Technology, Engineering Arts and Math. The company produces experimental toys such as “Molecules”, “DNA Extraction”, “Funny Foam”, “Flying Balloons”, “3D Planets”, “Volcano”, “Hygiene LAB”, “Rainbow” and etc. The kits meet all required standards to ensure the safety of products, activities and processes.

ATOM Kids future plans are to expand the experiments portfolio. Currently the company is elaborating to translate experimental games into English and Russian languages, in order to start test sales internationally.



Parara

Parara produces creative, funny and intelligent products - coloring posters for children and adults - an innovative product for the Georgian market. In the shape of a panoramic roll of various sizes high-quality charming graphics are created by Georgian painters Gia Gordeziani and Shalva Japaridze.

Parara's creative coloring papers are designed for kids - not only for fun but also for the development of cognitive and creative skills. Specially chosen topics help children to understand the correct perception of the world.

Parara


4 Lado Kavsadze Street, Tbilisi, Georgia+995 591 514 [email protected]://www.parara.ge/

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For children: Improves perception of colors and fine motor coordination, stimulates creativity, encourages self-expression, develops confidence, adjusts the emotional state and helps develop focus.

For adults: Coloring helps relax and positively affects human mind and health, allows to share precious moments with your child and the whole family.

Various sizes, interesting themes and attractive visuals make Parara products ideal for both, children and their parents, allowing family members to spend quality and happy time together. Parara products encourage creativity, self-confidence and self-expression, and these are all prerequisites for creating a healthy future generation.



Handicraft

Handicraft provides Georgian customers baby bedding linen sets, sleeping bags, toys, educational toys such as educational rugs, accessories for bed, traveling car organizers, baby nests and many different products. Company was established in 2017. Inspiration came after giving birth to a child and finding out that market was saturated with non-Georgian low quality products.

Handicraft


34 Dadiani Street, Tbilisi, Georgia+995 599 203 [email protected]://www.handicraft.com.ge/

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At every stage the company strives to work and improve quality of its products, expand variety and offer Georgian customers products, which are much better than imported ones. The company’s moto is to simplify parenthood through spending less time on daily routine to organize baby products and avoid uncomfortable traveling for the babies.

The goal of the company is to listen to the customers and identify their needs and widen production range based on their needs. In the nearest future company plans to expand internationally as well.



Tamashobana

Tamashobana established in 2015, is a local company offering its customers Georgian educational and entertaining games for children and adults. The mission of Tamashobanais to teach children the games that our previous generations played in the country.

Tamashobana


13 Giorgi Akhvlediani Street, Tbilisi, Georgia +995 577 564 [email protected]://www.tamashobana.ge/

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The games are explicitly designed with educational purposes, or have incidental or secondary educational value, they help learn about certain subjects, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand a historical event or culture, or assist in learning a skill while playing. Game types include board, card, and etc. As educators, governments, and parents realize the psychological need and benefits that gaming has on learning, this educational tool has become mainstream. Tamashobana Games are interactive play that teach us goals, rules, adaptation, problem solving, interaction, all represented as a story. They satisfy our fundamental need to learn by providing enjoyment, passionate involvement, structure, motivation, ego gratification, adrenaline, creativity, social interaction and emotion in the game itself while the learning takes place.



TablaNova

Tabla Nova has been working on various social and business projects, and educational toys is one of the new production lines. The concept is based on playing with words, testing memory, developing cognitive and motoric skills, etc. that is currently a top priority in toy industry.

TablaNova


5 Gorki Street, Tbilisi, Georgia +995 599 351 [email protected]://www.tablanova.ge/

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These type of board games, intellectual and fun toys, are quite rare in Georgia, though very important as the generation of youngest members of our society shall not only be used to playing video and digital games but also have access to alternative and engaging ways of entertainment. These games are also a fun way of socializing for many players of different age groups.

Tabla Nova strongly believes that this kind of toys are crucial for the development of the intellectual skills in players as well as a nice and interesting way of spending time with family and friends.



Tvaliart

Vazha Kavtuashvili, Otar Tediashvili and Nika Tediashvili founded a partnership Tvaliartin 2017, located in Eastern Georgia – Sagarejo.

The goal of the collaboration was to produce wooden toys and child mental development products and was established with the financial support of the State Agency Enterprise Georgia.

Tvaliart


12 Gr. Lortkipanidze Street, Tbilisi, Georgia+995 592 078 [email protected]://www.facebook.com/tvaliart/

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For the first year of operations they were testing machinery, producing toys and other wooden items, mainly improving the production quality and increasing quantity, additional equipment was purchased at a latter stage and in 2018 the team moved to Tbilisi and founded the company TvaliArt, that offers interesting and innovative wooden toys to Georgian customers.



Woodsy

WOODSY Ltd. is a small workshop that creates finely polished wooden products. The majority of products are handmade wooden toys that challenge, encourage and are always a lot of fun. Company’s passion for wood is explained by the fact that wood remains one of the most beautiful and natural raw materials.

Woodsy


8 Chachava Street ,Tbilisi, Georgia+995 555 110 072 [email protected]://www.woodsy.ge/

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WOODSY Ltd. was launched in March 2017. The company started in a 4-by-6-meter garage where first 3 SKUs of wooden toys were designed. Having no woodworking machinery at the time, toys were assembled out of the wooden components that were cut in other workshops. Several specialty retailers expressed interest in selling WOODSY products that were noticed and eventually liked by the consumers. One and a half years later WOODSY Ltd. outgrew the garage and moved to a full-fledged woodworking workshop.

Today WOODSY Ltd. is producing over 20 SKUs of wooden toys ranging from swords and shields to crossbows and archery sets.


Zgarbi

The company was established in 2004 by Mariam Kublashvili and Michael Ivansihvili, with the sole aim to manufacture meaningful, long-lasting toys that encourage creativity, create lifelong memories, and green the earth. Zgarbi toys are made out of the materials that are natural, biodegradable and safe for children. The toys are assembled using sustainably harvested wood, non-toxic water based paint, raw oil and linen ropes, therefore they are completely safe for both, our children and the planet.

Zgarbi


3 Nushi Street, Tbilisi, Georgia+995 593 954 221 [email protected]

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Nowadays, Zgarbi manufactures personalized toys adapted to age and psychology of the child, that are at the same time affordable in price.



Woodland

Woodland company was established on November 22, 2018 by an Individual Entrepreneur Ioseb Baindurashvili. The company received a small grant within the framework of the Enterprise Georgia project, which helped them purchase the required machinery and tart manufacturing ecologically clean wooden toys and children’s accessories.

The company is focused on constant sustainable development, hence we decided to establish the Woodland brand and work on promotion and advertisement. The products are sold through the social network and an online web-portal throughout Georgia.

Woodland


2 Lunacharsky Street, Gori, Georgia+995 577 250 [email protected]

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One of the company goals is to concentrate on quality and ecological cleanliness. The company wants the buyers to have the opportunity to choose between an ecologically clean toy and other toys.

The company is trying to fully assimilate the wood supplies and stockpile high quality ecologically clean goods.

For now, Woodland has one store in Gori, but the company aims to create a sales chain in all major cities in Georgia.



ZooTrivia

The company behind the Board Game ,,Zoo Trivia” is a family-run business of an individual entrepreneur Konstantine Dardzulidze. The game created by Tekla Dardzulidze has received rather positive reviews from child psychologists. The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia has included the game as an addition to the teaching program in 500 public schools and it gained popularity among elementary school children and teachers as well.

ZooTrivia


Gldani A Micro, Building 59/flat 10+995 577 460 [email protected]://www.facebook.com/Zoo-Trivia

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It’s fun to play, and one can easily see how the game helps with the development of a child’s brain. We tried to make the colors enjoyable, and the material is completely safe. Currently the game is published only in Georgian, but the company is planning to translate it into other languages as well.



ABOUT EPRCThe Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC) is a unique think-and do-tank that brings to light the most pressing economic issues confronting society and provides thorough analysis on economic issues, offers evidence-based recommendations as well as it encourages stimulating public debate and education.

EPRC was established in 2002 and from the very beginning has played an active role in linking civil society and the public sector, providing guidance and advice in various fields of public policy, budget oversight, and monitoring the implementation of the major state and donor-funded programs. Since its foundation, EPRC has strived to enhance the quality of economic policy- making in Georgia by fostering high quality, policy-relevant economic research, and disseminating it widely to decision-makers in the public and private sectors.

Throughout the past years, EPRC has earned a reputation of an objective, reliable and non-partisan source of information on the issues related to economic, financial and social policies. EPRC actively encourages diversity of opinion and independent thought in its network, with the result that EPRC output reflects out-of-the-box thinking on a range of perspectives, helping to enrich and enliven policy debates.


85 Paliashvili Str., Tbilisi, Georgia+995 32 2 207 [email protected]

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OUR MISSION

EPRC aims to improve the welfare of citizens through expert guidance from decision makers in various issues of economy, capacity-building of public institutions, and civil oversight of budgetary expenditures.

WHAT WE DO

ENGENDERING THE IDEAS - Generating policy recommendations based on global experience, substantiated by objective and technically sound research and analysis, and fine-tuned to reflect Georgia’s reality.

DEVELOPING CAPACITY - Strengthening of capacity of civic institutions, government agencies and the media for effective engagement in the economic policy-making and budgetary processes; empowering the general population with innovative tools to take an active part in the country’s economic life.

ENSURING CIVIL OVERSIGHT - In partnership with a range of CSO representatives, monitoring reports and analysis of key governmental programmers and budgetary expenditures are produced.


ABOUT ENTERPRISE GEORGIAIn June 2014 the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, launched a new government program “Produce in Georgia.” The program’s objective is to promote an entrepreneurial culture throughout the country by stimulating the establishment new enterprise and supporting the expansion of existing operations.

Enterprise Georgia is the key implementing partner of “Produce in Georgia” and is responsible for business support, export promotion and investment in Georgia sectors.

The Business division of the agency promotes entrepreneurial activity in Georgia by supporting entrepreneurs - assisting with the creation of new enterprises as well as the expansion and refurbishment of existing enterprises. The Export division promotes the export potential of the country by increasing the competitiveness of local products and the overall volume of goods directed towards international markets. The Invest division’s primary role is to attract, promote and develop direct foreign investment in Georgia. As the moderator between foreign investors and the Government of Georgia, the Invest division ensures access to updated information, provides an efficient means of communication with Government bodies, and serves as a “one-stop-shop,” supporting investors throughout the investment process.

5/6 Marjanishvli Str. (18 Uznadze Str.) 0102 Tbilisi, Georgia+ 995 32 2 960 [email protected]

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ENTERPRISE GEORGIA – BUSINESSAs part of the Produce in Georgia program, the Business division promotes and supports the development of new enterprise as well as the expansion of existing operations by providing financial assistance to the entrepreneurial community.

ENTERPRISE GEORGIA – EXPORTThe primary objective of the Export division is to promote the export potential of Georgian enterprises. This is achieved by helping operators improve their overall competitiveness and increase the volume d towards international markets. To achieve these goals, Produce in Georgia supports the following activities

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONSProvide coordination, organization and co-financing of B2B exhibitions, helping Georgia-based companies make new business connections, identify potential partners, diversify production and penetrate new export markets.

TRADE MISSIONSProvide planning, organization and co-financing of B2B meetings for Georgian exporters, helping them find new partners, diversify production, and penetrate new export markets.

Based on the demands addressed to Produce in Georgia from international stakeholders, connect foreign buyers with Georgian producers.

Registering companies on Produce in Georgia’s interactive trading platform www.tradewithgeorgia.com, promoting Georgian products and services to international audiences.

Provide detailed information associated with the documentation and certifications necessary for exports from Georgia, including customs procedures and tariffs in foreign markets. Education, training, and increase the professional capacity of export managers working with export-oriented companies within Georgia.



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