27.05.2016

On 27 May 2016, the conference hall of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Krasnodar region hosted a business breakfast with foreign investors working in the Krasnodar region. 

The participants discussed attracting foreign capital to the region and the influence of foreign investors on this process. The event was organised by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Krasnodar region and the AEB Southern Regional Committee. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Krasnodar regional administration, the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Krasnodar, heads of the AEB Southern Regional Committee, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Krasnodar region, and representatives of foreign companies operating in the Krasnodar region, almost all of whom are members of the AEB Southern Regional Committee.

The moderators of the event were Oleg Zharko, Chairman of the AEB Southern Regional Committee, Regional Corporate Affairs Director, Danone Russia, and Yuri Tkachenko, Chairman of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Krasnodar region, General Director of Krasnodar World Trade Centre. The investors included Ralph Bendisch, CLAAS, Igor Brener, Cargill, Alisa Andreeva, Philip Morris Kuban, Dmitry Polyakov, UniCredit Bank, and they praised the investment attractiveness of the region and the efficiency of the regional authorities. Business representatives proposed to attract investment to the region using the experience of investors already working there, and to intensify the work of the Consultative Council on Foreign Investments under the Governor of the Krasnodar region.

Vasily Shvets, Head of the Investments and Development Department, and Ivan Peronko, Advisor to the Governor of the Krasnodar region, supported the development of the work of the Consultative Council on Foreign Investments and the formation of working groups within the Consultative Council on Legal Affairs, HR, Localisation and Promotion of the image of the region.
The Consultative Council, according to the representatives of the Krasnodar regional administration, would be an integral part of the regional investment development programme, which also includes the construction of industrial parks and development of a system of cooperation between business and the scientific community. On behalf of the investors, Oleg Zharko supported the expansion of the work of the Consultative Council and expressed the opinion shared by the participants of the event about the need to hold such strategic meetings with business in the future.

L–R: Sergey Manko, MFA in Krasnodar; Oleg Zharko, Chairman of the AEB Southern Regional Committee, Danone Russia; Yuri Tkachenko, Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Ivan Peronko, Administration of the Krasnodar region.