An Executive Dinner by GEN - The Global Executive Network is an excellent opportunity for exchanging ideas with experts and your peers and discussing the latest and most important trends for a specific industry-related or management-focused topic. Executive Dinners are usually attended by between 20 and 35 executive guests and participation is always free of charge. 

Learn at the "Retail" Executive Dinner how leading companies deal with the current market challenges and engage in high-level networking.

With increasing competitive pressure on the US retail market the need to develop efficient & sustainable strategies and markets is more important than ever. To compete successfully in this demanding market, leveraging proven innovative solutions has become more essential than ever in the retail industry.

Topics to be discussed at the "Retail" Executive Dinner:

• Competitive Market
  Highly competitive market due to the ongoing economic recession, tightened lending standards and high levels of unemployment.

• Agility
  Responding to changes in market dynamics and competitor behavior is difficult due to lengthy time to market for new products and difficult to adjust capacity / processes for special situations and evolving requirements.

• Differentiation
  With record-breaking declines in sales, inventories, consumer confidence, and stock prices retailers need ways of differentiating to gain a significant competitive advantage by providing a quality customer experience, better segmentation of customers and the ability to offer value to new highly conscious consumers.

• Integration
  Process & information flow-optimization often require rethinking existing tools and communication-platforms.

This Executive Dinner is of particular interest to:

• CEO / CIO / CTO / CMO / COO
• Managing Directors
• Directors / VPs / Heads of Corporate Development, Corporate Strategy, Strategic Planning, Strategy Development, Marketing, Sales, Logistics, Operations, IT, Controlling

Impressions of previous "Retail" Executive Dinners:

GUESTS

In March 2010, 24 guests from companies such as PepsiCo, Philip Morris International, Colgate-Palmolive, Avon, Estee Lauder, Polo Ralph Lauren, Barnes & Noble, Footlocker, Wegmans, Coach, Tiffany, Saks, Sony, Ann Taylor, Aeropostale Inc. (New York); Guess Inc., 99 Cents Only Stores, Merle Norman Cosmetics, Stamps Com Inc, Martin Cadillace Company, Toyota Central and Scion Central, Fj Foodservice, Windsor Fashions, Megatoys Inc.,(Indianapolis) and others exchanged experiences and best practices, expanded their personal networks and engaged in shop talk.

DINNER SPEAKERS

At this Executive Dinner, you will listen to an "Retail" 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 our 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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