Information for fruit and vegetables business in CIS
Dear participants of IFE Fresh Produce exhibition and "Fruit and Vegetable business of Russia" conference
We would like to remind you about Meet the Retailer and Meet the Wholesaler Forums to be held within the show. These events will allow you to hold negotiations with potential buyers of fruits and vegetables.
For participations in these forums we invite purchasing managers from importerting, wholesale and retail companies to meet local and international producers of fruits and vegetables. The meetings will take place at special zone at the exhibition, where the representatives of retailers and importers will have their own area with indication of the company name. The meetings between producers and buyers are organized in the order of live queue. Owing to this fact we ask you to follow the instructions of moderator of this area. The time-limit for each meeting is 15 minutes. Please see detailed information below:
Meet the Retailer - November, 6th, from 3p.m. till 6p.m.
Confirmed participants (as per 23 October 2008)
RADEZH - 88 modern supermarkets in Volgograd, Volzhsky, Volgogradsky, Rostovsky region, Saratov - Category manager (regions), Head of branch (Moscow)
BILLA - 37 supermarkets in Moscow and Tula - Category manager, Head of purchasing department
LENTA - 31 supermarkets in 14 cities of Russia - Category manager
TANDER - 56 supermarkets, 8 distribution centres, more than 2405 stores in more than 760 cities of the Russian Federation - Category manager
ALMI - 19 stores in Russia and Belorussia - Category manager
AVOSKA - 30 stores in Moscow - The head of purchasing department, the leading specialist of purchasing department
AZBUKA VKUSA - 24 supermarkets in Moscow and Moscow region - Category manager
VIKTORIA Group - 15 supermarkets 'Viktoria', 30 stores 'Deshevo', 154 stores 'Kvartal', supermarket 'Cash', 4 distribution centres in Russia - Purchasing Director, Head of category management department, Moscow
AIKAI - 80 stores and distribution centre in Privolzhskiy region - Deputy Commercial Director
12 MONTHS - 25 shops. Moscow and Moscow region, Kaluzhsky region - Purchasing Director
X5 RETAIL - 762 stores 'Pyatorochka', 190 supermarkets 'Perekrestok' and 39 hypermarkets. 710 franchise stores at the territory of Russia and Kazakhstan - Federal Director "Fruit-Vegetable"
Trade-purchasing systemb T3S - 567 stores, 24 trade chains in Russia
O'KEY - 13 hypermarkets, 10 supermarkets in Moscow, 1 distribution centre in Saint-Petersburg, 1 hypermarket in Murmansk, 2 hypermarkets in Krasnodar, 2 hypermarkets in Rostov-na-Donu, 1 hypermarket in Tolyatti, 1 hypermarket in Krasnoyarsk - The head of purchasing fruits and vegetables of north-west region, Category manager
Supermarket 'VIVAT' - 67 supermarkets, Perm and other cities of Permskiy region - Category manager
Wholesale Centre - November, 7, from 11 a.m. till 2 p.m.
The following companies are invited:
Friend Fruits Group
FRUIT BROTHERS
JFC Fresh LLC
Seven Seas
Sunway Group Ltd.
Artes
Axmed Fruit Company
Vershki and Koreshkii, OOO
GLOBUS Fruit Trade
Green Town
Greenfields Service
Kuban-Agro, OOO
La Maree
Mosfruit
Nevskaya
Partner-Import
Poland and Co
PGC
Rusfruit
Sorys
Tropic Group
Forward OOO
Fresh-Express
Fryktovaya pochta
We advise you to prepare for meetings beforehand, having formed information concerning products, seasonality, range, prices, logistics as well as examples.
The organizers are expecting to have final list of the buyers who wish to participate in the Meet the Retailer and Meet the Wholesaler Forums by the 1st of November. Please check www.ifefreshproduce.com or call us at (495) 666 2240 for updated information.