Retail Week Conferences and Retail Solutions have joined forces to present the retail industry with a unique platform providing extensive learning and networking opportunities.

Retailers are more time-pressed than ever so we’ve designed a full educational programme that allows you to tailor your visit to Retail Solutions and benefit from structured learning in addition to all that the exhibition has to offer.

Confronted by an uncertain economic climate, it has never been more important to review your business strategy and improve operational efficiencies.

Bringing you the strategic solutions you need to protect your business – and your competitive advantage – Retail Week is hosting six conferences alongside Europe’s premier retail technology exhibition. Concentrating on key issues central to retail and offering choice and flexibility so you can set your own agenda, you are invited to join the UK’s leading retailers at our highly focused full-day business forums:

Tuesday, June 24

  • Supply Chain: Maximising productivity within your organisation’s supply chain

  • Business Intelligence: Using information to form business innovation and strategy

Wednesday, June 25

  • Retail Technology: Placing technology at the heart of your retail strategy

  • Merchandising Planning: Maximising potential profits in line with effective and precise stock management

Thursday, June 26

  • Multichannel Retail: Modernising multichannel retail in line with customer expectations

  • Loss Prevention: Harnessing loss-prevention procedures to protect profits in a tougher economic environment

In tough times, what is the most effective way of driving efficiency through the supply chain? How should retailers be using technology and information to innovate their business strategy? How can you reduce retail crime and shrinkage to protect your bottom line? How can you provide a truly multichannel offering to your customer while delivering accuracy through effective merchandise planning?

Featuring retail giants including Tesco, John Lewis, Argos, Marks & Spencer, HMV and Woolworths that have conquered previous economic turbulence, Retail Week’s conferences will tackle the issues you face head-on, enabling you to take away the tools you need to survive and thrive. (See page 21 for the full line-up of speakers.)

More choice, more value

  • Bespoke conference programmes tailored to your job function and formulated from dialogue with 150 retailers

  • Gain insight from more than 50 speakers from leading retailers

  • Interact in lively panel discussions and network with peers in one of the largest gatherings of retailers in Europe

  • Future-proof your organisation: gain insight from Europe’s leading futurologists

Workshop programme

Retail Week has announced a programme of half-day workshops running throughout Retail Solutions. Tackling the issues crucial to the retail industry, the workshops will be facilitated by industry gurus, providing retailers with a practical and interactive session. Focusing on the most relevant topics identified by retailers today, Retail Week’s half-day workshops cover:

  • Payment Card Industry (PCI/DSS)

  • Integration Platforms for Multichannel Retailing

  • Greening the Supply Chain

  • Technology in the Economic Downturn

  • Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

Register today at www.retailsolutions2008.com/conferences, or call 0845 056 5899 for more details

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