The project was created by the Russian Association of Fashion Industry Participants RAFI and provides a unique opportunity for the domestic market to directly contact fashion brands, retail chains and factories.
BEE-TOGETHER.ru has been held since June 2016, each season increasing the number of participants and visitors, as well as expanding the range of offers. The previous platform exhibition brought together over 80 enterprises of the garment and textile industry from a dozen countries, which held 940 meetings with 339 representatives of Russian and European fashion industry companies.
Representatives of 218 retailers and fashion brands from Russia and European countries held negotiations with factories. Among them are local players - Familia, O'STIN, Lady & Gentleman CITY, INCITY, Snow Queen, Bosco, Wildberries, KupiVIP, Faberlic, Parisian, Children's Clothes Gallery, Magic of Childhood, Kangaroo, Fantasy », Melon Fashion Group, AlenAkhmadullina, NatashDrigant, 12storeez, Tom Farr, Royal Spirit, Finn Flare, Naumi, BTC Group, PAROLE by VictoriAndreyanova, Sorry, I am not, Alice Fashion Rus, as well as international - Decathlon, Tom Tailor, Stockmann, Inditex Group and others.
Factories from Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan have already confirmed their participation in the 8th exhibition-platform BEE-TOGETHER.ru, offering tailoring of a wide range of light industry products - from outerwear, women's, men's, children's (including school uniforms) and sportswear, and also knitwear - to hats, home textiles, underwear, hosiery, workwear, bags and accessories, both in large and small batches. It is expected that the new season will bring together several dozen factories from the regions of Russia and neighboring countries.
Over the four years of the platform exhibition, a pool of permanent exhibitors has formed, many of whom represent the Russian light industry. An important result of the project's work was the high interest on the part of government bodies and professional associations of various countries and Russian regions. Thus, the participation of their factories in previous seasons was supported by the Istanbul Association of Garment Exporters IHKIB (Turkey), the UNIDO project (Armenia), the Yaroslavl Region Export Center, the Astrakhan Region Export Support Coordination Center, the Entrepreneurship Support Fund in the Stavropol Territory, the Leader Business Practice Center (Nizhny Novgorod Region), Center for Coordination of Support for Export-Oriented SMEs of the Tambov Region, Center for Cluster Development of the Penza Region,ANO "Agency for the Development of Entrepreneurship and Investments of the Vologda Region" and others.
An important section of the platform exhibition is also the salon of fabrics and components; in the coming season, manufacturers and distributors of enterprises from Russia, Turkey, India, Italy and a number of other countries will take part in it.
REVIEWS OF PARTICIPANTS
Dmitry Skornyakov, Neth Group (Russia): “This is not the first time we participate in BEE-TOGETHER.ru, and have already received two regular customers. If we talk about the development of the company, the capacity has greatly increased: we had 20 seamstresses, now there are 150 of them, and from one production site we have grown to five in three cities."
Yuri Ridchenko, Trikotazhklub (Russia): “During our participation in BEE-TOGETHER.ru, we have doubled our production - in terms of production volume, equipment fleet and personnel. Thanks to the clients found here, they began to produce much less for their own brand, because there is a constant confident demand, - clients come for the second and third time, recommend us to colleagues."
VISITOR REVIEWS
Ekaterina Popova, Love Republic (Russia): “This is a very important event for establishing business contacts. Our company is a large retailer that places the bulk of orders in Asia, now we are opening a new field of activity. And in order to find a supplier, you need to visit just such platforms."
Diana Arno, DianArno brand (Estonia): “We have a designer brand of women's clothing that is sold in Tallinn, New York, London, Dubai, Riga. Today we are interested in production in Russia, because this year we entered the Russian market, and it is more profitable for us to produce here, on the spot."