What are the sectors of consumer goods most in demand in Russia?
The short answer is everything. Russian market for home appliances, consumer electronics, household good, garments, foot wear, cars and car accessories, food stuffs shows the stable growth during the last years. The Soviet Union, with a few exceptions, was never strong at producing consumer goods. The decline in manufacturing output in Russia has hit the consumer goods sector even harder than the others. There were many reasons for this: financial difficulties, cost and quality problems, inefficient internal distribution. The result, however, was that till recently, the vast majority of manufactured consumer goods was imported. This situation will undoubtedly improve, but for the moment, the foreign exporter’s problems have more to do with finding the right price/quality mix, distribution, credit and delivery terms, etc.
