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
