RUSSIA

NATIONAL FOOTWEAR ASSOCIATION OF RUSSIA
Building 3, Myasnitskaya str. 24, Moscow, Russian Federation, 101000
Tel.: 7 95 924 7564 Fax: 7 95 928 7171
E-mail: orstep@cityline.ru
Chairman of the NFA Board of Directors is Andrei A. ILIOPULO (Tel: 7 95 377 47 90)
Director General of the NFA is Natalia I. DEMIDOVA (Tel: 7 95 924-75-64)

1996 - NATIONAL FOOTWEAR ASSOCIATION was formed as a non-commercial organization, designed to unite manufacturers and suppliers of footwear, components, accessories and raw materials.
Founding companies:
ECONIKA Corporation, ALBA Company, STEP Publishing House, ZEBRA, INTERCONTRACT.

NFA members:
30 companies in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Kaluga, Ukraine, with the total sales volume about 45 mln pairs in 1998.
1997 - National Footwear Association of Russia was incorporated as an observing member into the European Confederation of Footwear Associations (Brussels).
NFA concluded international agreements on co-operation with the National Association of Footwear Enterprises of Italy, the National Association of Footwear Enterprises of North Greece and Association of Footwear Industrialists of Turkey.
National Footwear Association is a member of the Advisory Council on Foreign Economic Relations of the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation, the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Council of Branch Association of Manufacturers and Exporters of Russian Federation.
National Footwear Association became a co-organizer of the Moscow International Footwear Exhibition MOSSHOES.

Areas of NFA activities:
1. Establishing constructive dialogue with the legislative, executive, governmental and local authority bodies, public organizations with the purpose of active participation in shaping of the state policy regarding the footwear business.
2. Rendering organizational, methodical and consulting assistance.
3. Carrying-out marketing studies in the area the structure, tendencies of the Russian footwear market, its regional peculiarities.
4. Organizing conferences, seminars, exhibitions and other events.
5. Protecting lawful rights and interests of NFA members in any echelons of power.
6. Special attention of NFA is paid to manufacturers.
7. Working with credit and finance institutions in order to develop and support manufacturers.
8. Preparing and implementing the projects associated with acquisition and introduction of up-to-date technologies.
9. Rendering assistance in marketing studies and issues of modern management.
10. Assisting participants of exhibitions, in certification of products, business travel services.
11. Interaction with the State Customs Committee of the Russian Federation on matters of forming-up economic mechanisms for preventing dumping and forged product import.

International cooperation:
NFA is developing international cooperation with the goal of attaining Russia's full membership in the international market:
1. Examining, classifying and adapting the international experience.
2. Signing agreements on cooperation with foreign associations;
- Assistance in getting visas.,
- Rendering objective information on companies, state of markets;
- Searching for new partners;
- Assistance in getting bank credits;
- Assistance in insuring contracts, credits.,
- Solving the problems of footwear certification.
3. Attracting foreign investments for development of the Russian manufacturer.
4. Protecting lawful rights and interests of NFA members abroad.
5. Participating in international exhibitions, seminars and conferences.

NATIONAL FOOTWEAR ASSOCIATION IS OPEN FOR COOPERATION WITH ALL ORGANIZATIONS CONCERNED

THE ST.PETERSBURG FOOTWEAR CHAMBER
Moskovsky pr.,143 St.-PETERSBURG
Contact: Olga Kolosova
Fax: 327-00-27
E-mail : Kolosova@vot.spb.ru
The main goal of our noncommercial association is to consolidate local shoe retailing shops. The members of the project consider as the basic tasks to develop the civilized shoe market in St.Petersburg, to create the uniform information space in system of shoe retailing trade, and to interact actively with city's authorities.
At present association is going the following directions :
- To learn and analyze of world footwear union's and association's experience, and promote of the experience among the association's members.
- To create the specialized uniform databases to optimize of the work with the shoe market information. The database will be available for all the shoe market participants.
- To distribute the ideas and principles of the developed competitive shoe market.
- To help to the members of the association and for other all interested sides parties on a wide spectrum of different problems faced to organization of trade in footwear.