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Natalia Lezhepekova, manager of the tasting room, “Fanagoria”, Temryuk district, Krasnodar Territory region, Russia

Our company participates in the Exhibition “Drinks Industry / Russian Wine Fair” annually, as this exhibition is very important to the wine industry. The first two days the exhibition is open only for professionals. And, as practice shows, on the third day comes the end user to get acquainted with our wines. Certainly, there were new contacts, but to estimate how much they are useful to us it will be possible only after the exhibition. Among the positive moments I would like to mention a very wide geography of visitors. Our stand was attended by the representatives from the U.S., Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russian regions. I think that the show was a success.

Vladimir Puckish, director of the PR and corporative communication department, “Fanagoria”, Temryuk district, Krasnodar Territory region, Russia

Thank you for organizing the Drinks Industry exhibition, and for arranging the visit of R. Joseph to our enterprise.
We wish you further success in the difficult task of promoting the culture of consumption of qualitative domestic wines.

Ihave a very good impression of the exhibition. I have seen here highly qualified specialists who are not often met at the exhibitions. The tasting went very well, including our wines. We participated for the first time, but our products will soon be presented on the Russian market and by the New Year I hope we will be able to bring our production to Moscow. There will be ten names of wines and one name of vodka. We received interesting proposals from the representatives of Moscow and St. Petersburg regions. But since we already have the distributor in Russia, we suggested that they deal with this distributor directly.

It is not for the first time that we participate in the exhibition. And this year it was quite successful for us. We had a series of important negotiations with the new partners concerning the supply of our products both to the government structures and chain stores. Chief Financial Officer of our company, Elena Denisova, was very pleased to get in touch with the international critics, who were present at the show. It was a very productive and useful exchange of opinions. And as usual we have paid a lot of attention to the end customers who visited our stand. We believe this work to be very important as we present our products in the Moscow region.

We signed a considerable number of contracts directly at the exhibition. During three days our booth was visited by the representatives from Samara, Magnitogorsk, Kazakhstan and Belarus. Our beer was highly appreciated. But we were confident about it in advance, because it is natural and its high quality is already well-known. Muscovites tried the beer with interest also, though it is not presented on the Moscow market, as it is very hard to enter this market. With respect to the exhibition organization – we all enjoyed it.

We presented new products at the exhibition and were interested to hear what visitors and experts have to say about them. People tasted our products and understood that they were really of high quality. There was a commercial interest from experts from Rostov, Vorkuta and other regions of Russia .

We took part in the exhibition mostly to maintain our image. We appreciate that it becomes a true wine forum with the participation of the international experts, which was, in my opinion, the most interesting and useful feature of this exhibition. Master class, which was held by Robert Joseph, Darrell Joseph and Eleonora Scholes, was of particular interest to the specialists. We also communicated with them on our stand, where they tasted our wines and gave us valuable recommendations. Here, at the exhibition, we met with our partners from Moscow, whom we invited to our stand to hold the negotiations. We also had meetings with the representatives of the regions. The Russian companies who have been assessing us for a long time are at last planning to begin a long-term cooperation. Also we had an opportunity to meet our colleagues from other wine regions, which happen not very often.

At the exhibition we for the first time presented a brand of Kotnar from Romania, which will enter the Russian market in February-March of the next year. During the exhibition we planned to find, first of all, the importers, those who are engaged in the certification and state registration. We had useful contacts mainly with the representatives from Moscow and Moscow region. These are precisely the regions which we are interested in first and foremost. About the exhibition: it was all that we expected and we fulfilled all our plans. The exhibition organization was also very good. We didn't take part in tastings, but judging by our neighbours – all was at high leve .

Organization of the exhibition was really excellent, the visitors responded very well to our products. We have had many contacts, which we consider promising. First of all, it is Murmansk, Ukraine, other regions of Russia. We are especially thankful to Asti Group, because at each stage, and we saw it, everything was organized very professionally .

We have been the only company here who represented food processing equipment from Italy. Those who had bottles on their stands were all among our potential customers. And this included almost all the exhibitors. We had a lot of negotiations with them, and the Myskhako company even bought one of the exhibition samples of the equipment. We had also very useful negotiations with the representatives from Montenegro, Croatia and the various regions of Russia .

A The exhibition was interesting; there were a lot of visitors and a lot of interesting events. We all liked it very much. We came in contact with a lot of people who visited our stand. There were those who were interested in a real business and those who were simply trying our drinks. We had useful contacts with the representatives from Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Primarily we are interested in the Russian market, because our products as yet are not presented there. This is our first exhibition in Russia and we are planning next year to begin shipping our wines to Russia. Interest from the visitors was very high. I am very grateful for this beautiful exhibition, organized by the Asti Group company. I wish them good luck and every success in business. May this exhibition always remain such a spectacular event !