Consumer industry of the Russian Federation is the primary multi-product and innovatively attractive sector of economy ensuring maintenance of the country’s status as an independent and sovereign industrial nation, enhancement of its defensive capacity, economic, social and intellectual security. Development of the domestic consumer industry provides for promotion of the population’s activity, health recovery and support for people, improvement of the environment and solution of the problems related to social and economic development of regions and Russia as a whole.
Consumer industry is included into the set of industries producing commodities. The industry produces more that 40% of non-food goods from this group.