Svetlana Knyazeva

Franchising Director, Rosinter Restaurants Holding

In September 2009 Rosinter was presenting its franchise offer for IL Patio and Planet Sushi brands at Buy Brand 2009. We must admit that the response and interest to our franchise offer that we got from potential partners and applicants happened to be beyond our expectations taken the overall economic climate in the world. This was definitely an opportunity that those who want robust but safe growth of their brands should not have missed.We have benefited not only from the new franchise contacts that we collected at the expo, but from other business opportunities that were brought to our attention by serious business people among the visitors. 

Together with this we were able to share our concerns on franchising development in Russia with our colleagues at the seminars and round tables hosted by EMTG. it important to get to know how franchising is supported in different countries by state authorities and authorised bank structures. This made it obvious that Russia could achieve a quantum leap in small and medium business development once franchising becomes a prioritised and well supported direction.

Finally, we were honoured to take part and be nominated among other well-established franchise system for one in a kind national franchising Golden Brand award and managed to compete and win among the strongest franchise operators in the Franchisor of the Year nomination. We extend our thanks and congratulations to EMTG and Buy Brand team for organising and hosting an outstanding venue in the world of franchising and we truly believe that Buy Brand expo is the most important and meaningful event for franchisors and franchisee in Russia and worldwide.

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Irina Dmitrieva

Head of Development and Franchising, Westland Company

Our company has taken part in the BUYBRAND exhibition for the fourth time and I would like to point out that this event was interesting, not similar to the previous ones.

We had a lot of doubts that potential franchisees would come to Moscow in these uneasy times.  We were indeed surprised.  The exhibition far exceeded our expectations.

In general, we are glad that we participated at the BUYBRAND.  I sincerely thank the organizers for this opportunity to be an exhibitor at this show.

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Denis Bystritsky

General Director, Retail Idea

BUYBRAND remains the only large-scale event for meeting face-to-face franchise partners.  We have received evidence of that again.  Of course, it’s too early to speak about results but we are confident about the effectiveness of participation at the show.

We hope the exhibition as well as our retail chain will grow during the upcoming year and we meet again in the bigger format!

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 Alexey Demyachenko

CEO, Interyernaya Lavka

The Company Interyernaya lavka (interior store) has participated at the BUYBRAND exhibition for the second time.  We set up many useful contacts and run several interesting meetings with potential partners.  It’s too early to speak about the results yet, nevertheless efficiency is obvious.  I would like to note wonderful organization of the exhibition and express gratitude to organizers for assistance in any matters.

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Andrew Withers

Managing Director, Southern Fried Chicken

In regards to Buy Brand exhibition 2009 we are again very pleased with numbers of visitor that attended our stand during the exhibition.

We are very happy with the range of countries attending not only throughout Russia but also from many others countries including Uzbekistan,Ukraine,Kazakhstan to name a few.

We look forward to further growth of the Southern Fried chicken Brand in Russia with the aid of Buy Brand.