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AUTUMN WEEK OF FASHION AND STYLE
19th Specialized Exhibition of Light and Textile Industry Goods
to be held between 18 and 22 November, 2009

EXHIBITION SUBJECTS
- clothes for women, men and children
- clothes for sport, leisure and home
- underwear, corselets
- hosiery and socks
- bed-clothes, blankets, pillows, mattresses, carpets
- white goods, table-clothes, napkins, towels, curtains
- footwear for women, men and children
- knit wear
- textile
- textile and leather haberdashery
- leather and fur goods
- accessories
- soft toy
- fashionable accessories and bijouterie

EXHIBITION PROGRAM
Wholesale and retail trade, seminars, business meetings, round tables, presentations, fashion shows, master classes, cultural program with sightseeing of Kazan historical places.
Jointly with the Autumn Week of Fashion and Style Exhibition the Beauty Professional Exhibition will be held on the territory of the Kazanskaya Yarmarka Exhibition Center.

EXHIBITION TARGETS
Introduction of production of enterprises of the region, improvement of relationships between the sphere of production and sale, use of opportunities of native consumer complex, aiding to Russian manufacturers in establishment of business contacts, strengthening of interregional and international relationships.

EXHIBITION CHARACTERISTICS
The Autumn Week of Fashion and Style Exhibition project is very popular among visitors and participants. Exhibitions pass twice a year, in spring and in autumn. Organizers are Kazanskaya Yarmarka OJSC jointly with the Rostextile Concern and the Textilexpo CJSC (Moscow). Today the market of the republic needs competitive production of native manufacturers, who can consider it both from positions of realization of manufactured production and with the purpose of long-term winning. Number of participants of the Autumn Week of Fashion and Style Exhibition (19-23 November 2009) is 190 companies. Geography of not only exhibitors of exhibition is widening, but also geography of professionals of the branch, visiting Volga weeks of fashion and style. Modelers, designers, specialists of fashion industry get acquainted with new lines and trends in the branch of fashion. Suchlike events always rise interest of visitors, number of which is more than 10 000 people.

MARKET CHARACTERISTICS

World financial crisis, undoubtedly, negatively influences economy of Russia in whole, and especially textile industry. Otherwise, the fact is that Russian textile enterprises survive almost without support of the government.
In conditions of crisis those enterprises will survive, which produce competitive goods, needed in the market. There are knit and legwear, terry towels and daily home textile. For the last years Russian mass consumer has been understanding advantages of qualitative native production over chip consumer goods, imported from Southeast Asia. Leading Russian enterprises, producing qualitative knit and terry articles take stable middle price niche in the inner market, demand for goods of which is liable to variations. Tatarstan, as one of the economically developed republics of Russian federation, has a power industrial potential, and the main part of its economical wellbeing is its consumer market saturation.
Growth of consumer demand of textile production gives opportunity of development of the Russian manufacture; also it contributes to quality improvement. Basic demand in light industry goods is satisfied by means of imported production. In this connection, Tatarstan market is open for not only republican enterprises, but for import of goods from other regions of Russian Federation, the CIS countries and far-abroad countries.