Moscow, Aug 13: Commodities for high-end and middle segments of the market, including Indian jewellery and other luxury items, would be displayed during a trade exhibition India will organise here in February to give a boost to its exports to Russia.
Over 400 reputed Indian companies and export houses are expected to participate in the Expo, arrangements for which were discussed by a delegation of India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) during its just concluded visit to Moscow.
The Expo would focus on non-traditional goods and commodities for high-end and middle segments of the market, with a 'modest' representation of traditional items like tea, coffee and Indian spices, ITPO executive director Ranjan Chatterjee said.
Expensive Indian jewellery items and other luxury goods would be one of the main thrusts of the Indian export promotion efforts, he said.
Chatterjee said he was amazed at the immense changes in Moscow, which has become an 'island of wealth', since his last visit in 1975.

"Moscow is just like Paris, New York or London," he said after spending days at stretch in the post-communist Russia's exclusive malls with showrooms and boutiques of world known companies marketing most expensive items of luxury the money can buy.

"It would be a blunder to sit on the fence and let the Russian market slip away, where once upon a time India had dominated", Chatterjee said.

Bureau Report