De la Rey Consulting Ltd.

DE LA REY EXECUTIVES TOOK PART IN MINISTRY-LEVEL RUSSIA-AZERBAIJAN FORUM
De La Rey Consulting Ltd. general director Yury Shurygin and deputy director Evgenia Shchipkova participated in Russia-Azerbaijan Industrial Cooperation Forum held in Baku on April 04, 2019. The Forum speaker list included such high-rank officials as Russian Minister of Industry and Economy D. Manturov, Azertbaijan’s Minister of Economy S. Mustafayev, Board Chairman of Azerbaijan-Russia Business Council S. Gurbanov, AZPROMO Acting President Y. Abdullayev and others.
Since Azerbaijan remains one of the top target markets among De La Rey’s project destinations, our company carries out numerous projects on fostering the business ties between entrepreneurs of Azerbaijan and other countries. Foreign companies have great opportunities for cooperation with Azerbaijan partners in such spheres as oil and gas industry, chemical industry, agricultural machinery and IT.
At the moment, Russia is the major supplier of goods to Azerbaijan’s market and the top importer of Azerbaijan’s non-oil products. In 2018 the bilateral trade turnover of our countries increased almost by 20% compared to the last year. Such an impressive bilateral trade growth was caused by the continuing diversification of supplied goods.

DE LA REY AT EURASIAN WEEK IN ARMENIA
From 22 to 24 October, 2018 De La Rey Consulting Ltd. participated in the major international EAEU forum “Eurasian Week” in Yerevan, Armenia. This forum was organized by the Eurasian Economic Commission with the support of the EAEU member countries’ governments. More than 2,500 people from 25 countries visited forum’s events, including round tables, expert discussions, exhibitions and procurement sessions.
The forum’s program started with the plenary meeting themed “The Real Sector of the EAEU Economy: Enhancing the Potential in the Course of Integration”. Among the plenary meeting speakers there were the first deputy Chairman of the Russian Government, Minister of Finance A. Siluanov, Prime-Minister of Armenia N. Pashinyan, Co-Chairman of the EEC Board T. Sarkisyan. The event was focused on effective cooperation between the business and the state for sustainable economic growth, expanding business contacts between EAEU enterprises, involving non-EAEU trade partners to fruitful cooperation.
De La Rey general director Yuri Shurygin became a moderator of the expert session named “Small and Medium-Sized Exporters as Drivers of the EAEU Development”. The discussion was centered on improving the export support policy. During the session the representatives of Russian regional export support centers shared their best practices and new approaches used in their activity.

DE LA REY PROVIDED A NATIONWIDE B2B TOUR IN KAZAKHSTAN FOR A SPANISH COMPANY
From 18 to 22 June, 2018 representatives of a Spanish company producing mattress manufacture equipment visited Kazakhstan. A one-week B2B tour was organized by De La Rey Consulting Ltd. on request of Catalonia Agency for Business Competitiveness, Spain.
The project consisted of several stages, namely submitting potential partner database with detailed information about partner’s activities and contact details, communicating with more than 40 potential partners in Kazakhstan, negotiating the possibility to hold a meeting, submitting potential partner list with their feedbacks, preparing a meeting schedule, providing transport, interpreting and photo services during the visit of Spanish delegation.
As a result of these efforts, the B2B tour covered five cities in Kazakhstan (Almaty, Petropavlovsk, Chimkent, Uralsk, Kostanay), where the Spanish company had 10 business talks with local manufacturing companies.