Europe
European Federation of Retail Perfumers (FEPD) is the umbrella organisation of the national European federations and organisations in the perfumery retail trade.
As well as the national federations, members include those international retail trade groups within the perfumery industry which are active in at least four European countries.
The Federation
When it was founded in 1960 the FEPD was one of the first federations in the retail trade in Europe. It sees itself as the voice of the European perfumery retail trade and represents the interests of its members at a European level.
Owing to the increased internationalisation of manufacturers, distributors and retail trade companies and the increasing importance of European institutions and European law many problems of the retail trade can no longer be discussed and solved on a purely national scale.
Countries represented in the FEPD: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
FEPD Work Area
Further FEPD areas are:
- To defend the selective distribution system
- To prevent and work against any discrimination in national markets
- To promote good relations with the head offices of the international brands
- To consolidate and intensify the contacts to the European Commission and European institutions
- To create a European qualification framework for the perfumery retail trade
Another of its main tasks is to facilitate the exchange of information between the national member organisations
