Kilo has recently joined two initiatives close to where we stand as a company – one strengthening Lithuania’s investment environment, the other protecting the freedom that makes building here possible in the first place.
Investors’ Forum
Kilo has become a member of Investors’ Forum, an association bringing together international investors and Lithuanian-owned companies around a shared goal: making Lithuania a better place to invest, build, and grow.
Žygimantas Surintas, CEO and Board Member at Kilo, says: “Lithuania is a great place to build global businesses – we have a kind of survival gene, ambitious and fast. But a strong business environment doesn’t build itself; it takes business and government working together. That’s why joining Investors’ Forum matters to us: not just to talk about change, but to help create it.”
Vytautas Šilinskas, Executive Director at Investors’ Forum, welcomed Kilo to the association: “One of the distinctive strengths of Investors’ Forum in Lithuania is that our community brings together both international investors and Lithuanian-owned companies. We are delighted to welcome Kilo and look forward to working together toward making Lithuania the best country to invest in.”
Total Defense
To be a great place to work, invest, and live, Lithuania also needs to be safe. That’s why Kilo supports Visuotinė Gynyba (Total Defense).
Kilo has signed the Total Defense Charter alongside more than 60 other organizations across Lithuania and committed €200,000 to support the association’s work. The company has also joined an initiative that continues paying salary to Kilo and Kiloverse employees who volunteer for Lithuanian military service.
“We build businesses in Lithuania, invest here, and raise our children here. We want to keep doing that in a free, safe country – which means we also have a responsibility to help strengthen it. We support the association’s goals through concrete action: financial support, strengthening our own team’s preparedness, and support for employees who choose military service,” says Ž. Surintas.
Tomas Godliauskas, Head of Visuotinė Gynyba, welcomed the growing number of employers joining the initiative: “More and more employers are joining this initiative every day. It’s an important signal that businesses increasingly see their role in total defense through concrete decisions for their employees. Someone who chooses military service should feel supported not only by the state, but by their employer too – and the more organizations that join, the fewer practical barriers remain to choosing that service.”
Kilo began strengthening its own team’s preparedness a year ago, organizing first aid, self-defense, and emergency preparedness training for employees.