Interactive Seminar 1: The Practical Guide To Establishing & Managing Your Automotive Operation In Russia
Seminar rationale:
As more and more automotive producers move to Russia it is essential that you make your strategic decision to establish operations in Russia based on facts, figures, experience and serious growth forecasts. Join this practical, information & experience driven seminar to learn about key challenges and opportunities you will have to face when establishing operations in Russia. Practical advice combined with lots of experience, success and failure stories is exactly what you need before you embark on your Russian operations venture.
What will you learn?
Gathering information about the practical side of establishing operations in Russia could be difficult, time-consuming and expensive. This seminar is designed specifically for automotive professionals who have been given the uneasy task of setting up and growing their company’s business in Russia. Get the information you need and learn from many years of experience in Russia. In just one day you will get information and learn essential truths about:
- Dealing with initial company registration and paperwork in Russia
- Choosing legal and banking services
- Getting bank accounts and establishing legal entities in Russia
- Handling accounts, charter capital, minimum bank deposits
- Wading through ministries, officials and other authorities
- Keeping on top of tax returns, taking advantage of tax incentives and dealing with tax inspections
- Dos and Don’ts in initial company set up in Russia
- Property – to buy or to rent? How much to pay? Greenfield vs brownfield?
- Catch 22 in Russia – where might you get stuck and how to deal with different problems
- Buying equipment for your facility – practical advice and experience
- HR – how to find good workers and make them loyal to your company
- Logistics, logistics, logistics – how to have good service and not pay a fortune
- Finding local reliable suppliers to reduce cost and improve quality – supplier localisation
- Getting new business – western OEMs and Russian OEMs.
- Importing and exporting produce to and from Russia – key issues and how to overcome them
Structure Of The Day
8:30 – Coffee and registration
8:45 – introduction and overview of the day
9:00 – Company registration, legal, banking, property and tax
10:00 – Morning Coffee and Questions
10:20 – HR, Employment and staff training
11:00 – Coffee Break & Questions
11:15 – Logistics, supplier sourcing and localisation
12:15 – Growing your business in Russia. Selling to Russian and to western OEMs.
13:15 – Lunch & Questions
About Your Seminar Leader:
Roeland Van Gestel, General Manager, Lear Russia - is one of the pioneers among global T1 suppliers with production facilities in Russia. He has been in charge of production and done business on all levels with both Russian and western OEMs in the country since 1998. Most of Lear’s business in Russia is with the local OEMs. Roeland is currently working on his company’s strategy for future growth and work with the local Russian OEMs. He is an absolutely ideal source of information, contacts, tips, practical advice and encouragement for anyone who is new or relatively new to Russia and its automotive sector.
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