PATA (company)

For other uses, see Pata.

PATA

Company type	Private
Industry	timber
Founded	1999[1]
Headquarters	Inčukalns [1] , Latvia
Number of locations	stores in Valmeria and Riga[2]
Key people	Uldis Mierkalns
Products	lumber uncut boards planed boards calibrated materials floor boards and terrace facing panels bath panels laminated panels fuel materials[3]
Services	timber wholesale timber transport forest management[4]
Revenue	234,800,680 Euro (2023)
Net income	1,638,597 Euro (2023)
Total assets	118 386 502 EUR
Number of employees	152 (2013)[4]
Website	pata.lv

PATA (or SIA “PATA”) is a Latvian privately-owned timber trading, management and logistics company.[5] Uldis Mierkalns is the owner of the company with 100% of its shares.[4]

Services

The company provides forest management services, such as initial stages of forest planting, felling, timber transportation, sawmills, production of sawn timber, fire wood and fuel chips.[6]

Subsidiaries

PATA Timber – timber trading company, operating five stores,[4] including concept stores in selling domestically produced timber across Latvia. Majority of the products available in the stores is provided by the parent company,[2] which consists of Latvian produced timber,[4] as well as foreign produced timber.[3] The subsidiary works in cooperation with trading house Kursi. According to Atis Kalnins, sales network manager and the member of the board of the subsidiary, concept shops are also opened in Dreilini.[2]

Charity

Pata is a “shelter friend” of the Ulubele animal shelter.[3] The company also collaborated with Latvian Ornithology Society and various Latvian athletes in a birds’ nest instalment project in 2013.[7]

References

1. "PATA, Sabiedrība ar ierobežotu atbildību" (in Latvian). LURSOFT.
2. "PATA kokmateriāli Valmierā atklāj jauna koncepta veikalu" (in Latvian). db.
3. "SIA PATA kokmateriāli" (in Latvian). Ulubele.
4. "Kokmateriālu tirgotājs 'Pata AB' pērn apgrozījis 124,29 miljonus eiro" (in Latvian). DELFI.
5. "Reliable partner in the forest management". Latvia China Business Council.
6. "PATA AB Ltd". ecobuild.
7. "Pirmā ligzdošanas sezona PATA-AB putnu būrīšos" (in Latvian). putnidaba.