FIRA (Federation of International Retail Associations) promotes networking, collaboration, and information exchange among retail trade association executives around the world to enhance the success of the global retail industry through the development of more informed and effective retail trade associations. FIRAE is open to all national retail associations and elects a chairman from among the member associations to preside for a two-year term. NRF serves as the secretariat for FIRAE, which meets twice a year, once in January at NRF's Annual Convention and again in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the year in a member host country.