An Executive Dinner by GEN - The Global Executive Network is an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas with experts and peers and discuss the latest and most important trends for a specific industry-related or management-focused topic.

Executive Dinners are usually attended by between 20 and 30 executive guests and participation is always free of charge. Learn from the "Retail Strategies" Executive Dinner how leading companies deal with the current market challenges and engage in high-level networking.

Topics to be discussed at this Dinner:

• Competitive Market
  How to effectively compete in your market through optimized financial and assortment planning and demand forecasting

• Agility
  How to manage the challenge of expanding in Germany and across the rest of Europe? How to shorten time to market for new products

• Differentiation
  How to leverage multi-channel retail processes ensuring a consistent customer experience across all channels.

• Integration & Consolidation
  How to consolidate platforms and processes whilst faced with the challenge of implementing a platform for growth

• Best Practices
  Learn best practice from leading European retailers, and engage in peer-to-peer discussions from other leaders in the industry. Learn how other retailers have streamlined their business processes to assist with margin improvement whilst facilitating revenue growth

This Executive Dinner is of particular interest to:

• CEO / CIO / CFO / COO
• Managing Directors
• Directors / VPs / Heads of
  Category Management, Buying, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Strategic Planning, Sales Operations, Logistics, Change Management

Impressions of previous "Retail Strategies" Executive Dinners:

GUESTS

In September 2010, 25 guests from companies such as Walmart, Carrefour, Media Saturn, Media Markt, Hellweg, MGB Metro Group, H&M, Adidas, Nespresso, Tchibo, Lidl and others exchanged experiences and best practices, expanded their personal networks and engaged in shop talk.

DINNER SPEAKERS

At An Executive Dinner, you will listen to a "Retail Strategies" Dinner Speech (exactly 15 minutes) by a distinguished expert presenting a concrete business case. All dinners are sponsored by the speakers. The focus of the evening is to encourage quality networking among the guests, facilitated by detailed guest introductions and GEN's unrivaled Connecting Services.

OPINIONS
What participants say about Executive Dinners:

"Outstanding contacts at the dinner and first-class information provided by a real insider."
"High level of guests, i.e. general, department, division, and project managers-a very successful ambience."
"Very good, condensed talks, completely understandable - a great deal of top-level insider news - definitely worth recommending!"

"Thank you very much for the updated list of participant summaries. The event in Zurich persuaded me: very good organization, wonderful atmosphere in the Guild Hall, with good food and excellent beverages, enough time for networking, and interesting introductions of the participants and short presentations by the sponsors. A big Thank You. I'm glad I was able to be there."
Urs D. Schmid
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