13TH RUSSIAN FASHION RETAIL FORUM IMAGES REVIEW 02/2014 The bi-annual Know-How Transfer Academy in Fashion Retail Management February 25-27, 2014; Krasnaya Presnya Expocenter, Moscow RFRF EXECUTIVE CONFERENCE: „What to do against stagflation?“ February 25, 2014; Co-organizer Fashion Consulting Group (FCG) Reinhard E. Doepfer Chairman European Fashion and Textile Export Council: Anna Lebsak-Kleimaus CEO, Fashion Consulting Group Natalia Chinyonova FCG Business Development Executive for Lady & Gentleman City Igor Gordon Commercial Director of Sunday Up Market „Russian clothing retailers ordered far too much merchandise for the season A/W 2013/4, exceeding consumer demand by 25% or more: The market needs to be cleared from stock first before entering a new balanced growth phase.“ „To challenge stagflation, Russian multi-brand fashion retailers need to get out of the mainstream offer and define their individual nichemarket strategy to comply with the dramatic changes of consumer preferences” „To improve competitiveness, my customer uses ERP-Programs: cost reduction by process optimization, expansion of the brand portfolio, intensification of store management, geographical expansion and customer loyalty schemes.” „Sunday Up Market is synonymous to the niche-market philosophy: from pop-up stores via regular offline stores to our new sum shop online venture, we created a true multi-channel retail opportunity for over 150 designers.” 2 RFRF EXECUTIVE CONFERENCE: an extremely attentive professional audience February 25, 2014; Co-organizer Fashion Consulting Group (FCG) 3 RFRF 4TH RUSSIAN LINGERIE MARKET FORUM on February 26, 2014 Co-organized by LINGERIE Magazine / OOO NIADA and sponsored by MUEHLMEIER BODYSHAPING GMBH Three speakers at the 4th Russian Lingerie Market Forum (from left): Tamas Boedoecs, Muehlmeier Bodyshaping; Olga Kudryavtseva and Reinhard E. Doepfer Reinhard E. Doepfer, Chairman of the European Fashion and Export Council (EFTEC), presenting the Lingerie Market Report Russia in Spring 2014 Olga Kudryavtseva reporting on her 10 years of experience in building the Russian Lingerie market as Agent, Import Distributor and Retailer Russian Lingerie Market Forum paid tribute to CPM BODY & BEACH and attracted 52 professional visitors from industry and trade 4 RFRF CORE SEMINAR: best practice in fashion retail management economics February 26, 2014; Co-organizer PROfashion Andrey Burmatikov and Peter Kazorin in dialogue on best practice in brand portfolio planning and calculation of budgets, selling prices and margins Alexey Danchenko lecturing on best practice for a multi-brand fashion retailer to expand through the launch of an online-shop Datei Profashion Bild zal.jpg Julia Veshnjakova and Mr. Agatov in dialogue on advanced brand building systematics and visual merchandizing optimization The RFRF seminar session powered by PROfashion Publishing House: a “full house” event and a very concentrated audience 5 RFRF SPECIAL SEMINAR: optimization of shop interior design and furnishings February 27, 2014; Co-organizer sdbn.biz Andrey Utochkin, Managing Director of Shop Design Business Network reporting from last EUROSHOP trade fair, Duesseldorf, February 16-20, 2014 Setting a focus on the emotionalization of the shop interior design, latest innovations of display technology and illumination Introducing the fascinating visual merchandizing concepts of BREUNINGER fashion department store, recently opened in Duesseldorf Andrey Utochkin attracted a large number of professional visitors originating from Kaliningrad, Vladivostok and Almaty, Kazakhstan 6 RFRF FINAL SEMINAR: strategic goals in multi-brand fashion retail February 27, 2014; Co-organized by Fashion Consulting Group (FCG) Anna Balandina lecturing on strategic visual merchandizing and shop window decoration Galina Kravchenko explaining strategic assortment management Andrey Gorb, brand developer of British KAREN MILLEN/OSASIS on franchising opportunities 7 RFRF CONTACT INFORMATION Messe Duesseldorf Moscow Anastasia Paniotova, Head of PR and Marketing Tel.: +7 495 955 9199 #502 e-mail: PaniotovaA@messedi.ru ITMM GmbH Stuttgart, Germany Reinhard E. Doepfer, Managing Partner Tel.: +49 711 933 2994 44 Fashion Consulting Group Moscow Olga Steinberg PR Director Tel.: +7 495 629 7425 PROfashion Publishing House Moscow Yuri Gushchin Business Devleopment Director Tel.: +7 495 626 3020 e-mail: doepfer@itmm-gmbh.de e-mail: olga.steinberg@fashionconsulting.ru e-mail: expo@profashion.ru Shop Design Business Network Moscow Andrey Utochkin, Managing Director Lingerie Magazine, Moscow Renata Akchurina, PR Manager Tel.: +7 916 790 2644 European Fashion & Textile Export Council Reinhard E. Doepfer, Chairman Tel.: +49 711 933 2994 44 Muehlmeier Bodyshaping GmbH Tamas Boedoecs, Head of Sales and Business Development Tel.: +49 9635 9219 27 e-mail: Sdbn.biz@yandex.ru e-mail: marketing@lingerie-magazine.ru e-mail: r.doepfer@eftec-europe.eu e-mail: bodocs@muehlmeier.eu SEE YOU AT THE NEXT RFRF FROM SEPTEMBER 3-4, 2014 AT CPM (SEPTEMBER 3-6, 2014) 8