OUR HISTORY
Company from Medellín Colombia, founded by the engineer: Carlos Saldaña, in
1994 (28 years old). The company started in a small premises of 35 m² with two workers, two
little winding dental floss machines, a secretary and Carlos
Saldaña
as a salesman and manager, at the same time and with a dream yet came true:
“To be a leading oral hygiene company”.
With a competitive price and quality, our products gradually were well
positioned, and
allowed us to move to a 130 m² store, forming a team of five
sales reps, with their respective Sales Manager. In 2003, the company moved to
a 650 m² warehouse and a sales team made up of seventeen sales reps, five
merchandisers
and a sales manager. Sales of dental floss, toothbrushes and
mouthwash continued to grow.
We kept working with a lot of effort and dedication, reinvesting the company'
profits. By the year 2008 we already had about
28 sales reps, 20 merchandisers,
a sales manager and marketing director.
To be more competitive, we started the construction of our own facilities, with
our own Medical Device laboratories, where Dental Flosses, Toothbrushes,
and
Orthodontic products are manufactured, with European state-of-the-art
machinery and robotic arms
The largest retailer chain in Colombia, Grupo Éxito, chose Sky S.A., among all
the suppliers in the country, as the
most reliable manufacturer, to provide its
white label dental floss, mouthwash and toothbrush lines and Kits. In addition to
this more than eleven additional large chains chose Laboratorios Sky to provide
their own white
label brands. We have been doing this for nearly four years.
DolarCity ranked us as the top provider with our Oral-Plus brand, under which we
sell about 70% of the entire category in its stores, ahead of Colgate, oral B
and other brands combined.
Due to our good job the chain has selected us to supply their products to multiple countries like Perú, Guatemala and Salvador.
Laboratorios Sky is the Colombian company with the highest percentage
of
growth (40% per year) and this is also due to the fact we keep our social media
presence and advertising very active.
Carlos Alberto Saldaña
Sky-teeth® –General
Manager and Founder
Laboratory SKY S.A.S