OREANDA-NEWS. April 21, 2010. Investigation on awareness of retail leasing companies, their trustworthiness and choice displayed that consumer loans providers are not popular and trustworthy among users of this service in Lithuania, reported the press-centre of Ukio bankas.

The results of investigation show that Lithuanians trust and choose not consumer loans providers but retail leasing service companies. Such results are revealed by the survey of Lithuanian residents performed by Spinter tyrimai under order of Ukio bankas lizingas.

The investigation showed that three Lithuanian retail leasing service providers – Ukio banko lizingas, Snoro lizingas and Siauliu banko lizingas are best know in Lithuania.

Trust index on the basis of the investigation results also tends to be on retail leasing companies side.

Following the investigation results, 68 percent of the survey participants trust Snoro lizingas, 62 percent – Ukio banko lizingas and 51 percent – Siauliu banko lizingas. While trust index of the consumers in Kreditas 123 is 17 percent and trust index in other consumer loans providing companies is even lower.

“The results of investigation showed that Lithuanians use leasing services after precise evaluation of the conditions proposed by the service provider. Reliability of the company is also important to the users. On the basis of the results of the investigation people find these advantages in retail leasing companies, thus the number of loyal clients is constantly growing. Lithuanians carefully estimate consumer loans providing companies and prefer retail leasing companies, “ – said Mindaugas Valancius, General Director of Ukio banko lizingas.

According to the data of investigation, respondents, who have used leasing services for the first time, second time choose retail leasing companies but not consumer loan providers. The majority of respondents while buying by leasing, choose Ukio banko lizingas, Snoro lizingas, Siauliu banko lizingas, etc. and only few respondents named such service providers as Kreditas 123, Lateko lizingas, etc.

Performing the survey on awareness of retail leasing companies, their trustworthiness and choice, the company Spinter tyrimai, public opinion and market investigation company, has questioned 1,002 residents of Lithuania in the period from 16th to 23rd of March 2010.

Service of Ukio bankas lizingas was used by more than 545 thousand clients and the service is provided in more than 3 thousand sales points in all Lithuania.