Retail Week Conference

Retail Week Conference is an annual trade conference in London for business people in the retail industry. The event is hosted by the magazine Retail Week, which is owned by emap - a B2B publishing company. Each year, business leaders in retail are invited to speak at the conference about issues affecting modern retailers. Themes have included consumer trends that are defining the future of business, e commerce and multichannel logistics, and the shape of the economy. The first Retail Week Conference was held in 1991.
Speakers
Past speakers have included:
*Archie Norman
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*Andy Clarke
*Carl McPhail
*Ian MacLaurin
*Anita Roddick
*Charles Dunstone
*Stuart Rose
*Philip Green
*Geoffrey Mulcahy
*Stuart Hampson
*Nigel Robertson
*Justin King
*Allan Leighton
*Robert Templeman
*Tim Waterstone
*Martha Lane Fox
*Terence Conran
*Terry Leahy
*Burton Tansky
*Brad Anderson
*Jack Straw
*John Gummer
*Bob Willet
*Terry Green
*Mark Bolland, Chief Executive, Marks and Spencer
*Richard Brasher, UK CEO, Tesco
*Ian Cheshire, Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group
*Mark Newton-Jones, Chief Executive, Shop Direct Group
*Chris North, Managing Director, Amazon UK
*Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Group UK
*Nicole Vanderbilt, Chief Executive, mydeco.com
Advisory board
The 2012 advisory board comprised: ==
*Simon Fox,CEO, HMV Group
*Ben Gordon,CEO, Mothercare
*Alex Gourlay,Chief Executive Health & Beauty, Alliance Boots
*Will Kernan,Group Managing Director, New Look
*Tanya Lawler,Director of Digital, Sainsbury’s
*Ben Lewis,CEO, River Island
*Richard Pennycook,Group Finance Director, Morrisons
*Rob Templeman,Chairman, British Retail Consortium
*Robin Terrell,Executive Director, House of Fraser International
*Angus Thirlwell,Co-founder & Chief Executive, Hotel Chocolat
Associated events
*World Architecture Festival
*Drapers Fashion Summit
*World Retail Congress
 
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