We are a public accountants and consultants firm located in Geneva and Lugano, with several customers in Russia and Ukraine.  Our services consist mainly in accounting, audit, legal and tax expertise, as well as company valuations and due diligence.  Our strong banking experience allows us to be a reference in the family office concept. We have also developed training concepts for the financial and banking industry, like training in financial instruments, commercial banking and operational risk management.

CMM is an organisation specialising in marketing education, marketing research and the implementation of marketing plans. It publishes the quarterly journal called "Marketing" in the Russian language and with a targeted private circulation in excess of five thousand. It carries pragmatic articles about marketing and business issues in Russia and the West. CMM also runs, within the State Academy for Management, a specialised graduate marketing course for business executives.

Cotecna Inspection SA is an international group of companies specialised in trade supervision services.  Main activities: quality and quantity control, laboratory services, FOG (Full Outturn Guarantee) services, collateral management, warehouse monitoring, factory audits.  Commodities:  grains, pulses, oilseeds and feedstuff, vegetable oil, sugar, fruits and vegetables, timber, consumer goods, prime steel products, steel and non-ferrous scrap, fertilizers,  chemical products, machinery.
Cotecna has an extensive worldwide network.  We can perform any inspection services requested by Russian or foreign clients in Russia as well as in the other countries of the former Soviet Union.

Contact: Mr. David TAJI-FAROUKI, Managing Director

Having been created in 1988, the company now focuses principally on the marketing of Tirol, which is a super sealant, and has also opened an office in Amman, Jordan, to this effect.  Tirol is the only product in the market that repairs aggressions such as bullets to the flanks of a tire instantaneously with no loss of air.  Our main clients are private and public sector entities involved in any form of security.

The House of Gübelin. Switzerland's finest jeweller and watchmaker, is interested in establishing business relations with the Russian community in Geneva as well as with Russian visitors and businessmen. Our gemological laboratory is unanimously considered as a world leader. The watch assortment includes eleven prestigious brands, i.e. Gübelin, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Ebel, Omega, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Longines, Tag Heuer, Tissot, Gucci and Christian Dior.

Contact: Mr. Sylvain NAGGAR, Administrateur

IFP Group, established since 1990,  has offices in Pully (Switzerland).  The main activities are:

• Eurobonds and emerging markets as a counterpart.
• Servicing the American market through an agreement with one of the top five American stock broker.
• Asset management.
• As an interbank broker, deposits, derivatives and capital markets.

Contact: Mr. Oscar HAUSAMMANN, President and Managing Director

Trading in oil, fertilizer, steel, aluminium and other commodities.

Tel. 022-735 49 11
Fax 786 56 49
E-mail novaatlantis@bluewin.ch

NOVA ATLANTIS was founded in 1976; main countries of activity are Europe, South America, West Africa, India, Eastern countries, Russia.
Commercial activities:  financing or short-term commercial operations, medium-term financing for export and import of machinery and equipment; letters of credit; prefinancing of exports; forfeiting.
Personalised portfolio management, with funds deposited with first class Swiss banks and investment  according to each client strategy.
Fiduciary activities:  creation of Swiss or offshore companies and related advice; management of such companies for the account of our clients; infrastructure for such companies, domiciliation, directors, all services needed; assistance and management of the companies' activities, for example: opening of bank accounts, administrative work, invoicing, etc.

PRACTIC Training & Consulting Centre offers a programme of executive training focused on, but not limited to, the needs of Russian businessmen. It has a worldwide network of partners for the organisation of seminars. In addition, it offers a consultancy service to Russians wishing to set up operations in the West and vice versa.

Contact: Mr. Travis RANDOLPH, Senior Manager, Assurance & Business Advisory Services

A major international audit and consultancy offices, with an extensive presence in Russia and the C.I.S. Services include due diligence, project and investment analysis, and partner search, as well as a wide range of management consultancy services ranging from information technology to company structures.

Prima Comexindo is the international trading arm of the Tirtamas Group, an Indonesian business conglomerate with investments and own production facilities in some of the fastest growing sectors of the Indonesian economy, including power generation, coal mining and coal transportation, agricultural plantations, petrochemicals, production of cement and other building materials, property development and financial services.

Founded in 1986, Prima Comexindo has established a network of subsidiary companies and representative offices in over 15 countries, employing more than 200 people of different nationalities and diverse backgrounds. The Comexindo Group has a current turnover of trading, maritime, manufactured and agricultural goods. It is especially recognised as a pioneer in developing trade in new markets using innovative, specialised and structured trade finance agreements.

CBG is a private bank of private ownership.  It has been working with Russian clients for over 10 years in different fields.  The two major activities in Russia are investment projects but also private banking and private asset management.

Contact: Mr. Rudolf LEHOTZKY, Associate Director

SICPA SA produces and markets security printing inks for banknotes, passports, checks and other valuable documents, world-wide.

Contact: Mr. Roy DAMARY, Managing Director

This marketing consultancy company focuses its efforts on seeking partners for Russian enterprises. It has two main focuses:

• Russian high technology which can be further developed and applied together with Western partners

• Enterprises in Russia manufacturing products with signifiant local demand, e.g. food products and building materials, and where Western investment can give great returns because of domestic market opportunities.

Technomic Consultants also offers training seminars in Russian in banking and financial matters, and linked to the search for investment partners.

ZINOVKIN Sergey (Mr.), Counsellor, Russian Mission to the United Nations Organisation, Geneva

KUSTER Robert (Mr.), Délégué à la Promotion Economique, Département de l'Economie Publique, Geneva