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Visionary speakers from Tesco, Boots, Co-operative, B & Q, QVC, Lloyds Pharmacy, Pets at Home, Mothercare and IKEA address Retail Bulletin Summit 2009

The UK economy is proving extremely challenging for retailers as utility, grocery and petrol prices rising together with the credit crunch and the threat of redundancies, retailers are finding it increasingly difficult to ensure consumers keep spending.

Those retailers with yesterday's strategies are rapidly losing market share whilst others are going out of business completely.

Those with highly tailored, forward thinking retail strategies, however, are viewing the current economy as an opportunity to increase sales and market share, strengthen and protect their businesses and engage their customers to maximise loyalty.

But how can you prosper and an exceptionally challenging environment? How can you offer a customer experience that really drives loyalty and stands out from the crowd? How can you use a variety of channels to maximise your sales and which growth opportunities offer your business the best opportunities to enhance your business?

Further to a period of in depth research with senior retail executives, The Retail Bulletin Summit 2009, sponsored by Kurt Salmon Associates, will allow a wide variety of retail executives to benchmark their initiatives and share ideas to enable increased market share and customer loyalty through recession proof retail strategies.

This interactive 2 day summit has been designed to allow retail executives to network and discuss best practices. The speaker program introduces a fresh line up of exciting speakers far removed from the usual retailers that regularly appear on the conference circuit. This event won't just look at the issues facing retail - it will look at how to address them during interactive discussion and panel debates with presentations from speakers working at the coalface of their organisations.

Speakers already confirmed for the summit include:

· Sir Brian Pitman, Former Chairman, Lloyds TSB Group and currently a director of Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic Airways and The Carphone Warehouse Group Plc as well as Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley and Governor of Ashridge Management College

· Richard Smith, Managing Director, Lloyds Pharmacy

· Colin Temple, Managing Director, Schuh

· Clive Hutchings, Chief Executive, Allied Carpets

· Judith Levy, CEO, High and Mighty Group

· Gillian Berkmen, Commercial Director, Mothercare plc

· Meg Lustman, Chief Strategy Officer, Mosaic Fashions

· Dr Patrick Allen, Executive Director of Marketing, Co-operative Group

· Ruth Girardet, Corporate Responsibility Director, Tesco

· Nicky Hill Director of HR, Boots UK

· Jonathon Brown, Director of Multi Channel, B & Q

· Jan Buckingham, Director of Global Values, Body Shop

· Claire Balmforth, Group HR Director, Carpetright PLC

· Catriona Marshall, Commercial Director, Pets at Home

· Andy Moat, Director of Organisation Development, B & Q

· Brian Farrelly, Director of Broadcasting, QVC

· Richard Lowe, Corporate Director, Retail and Wholesale Sector, Barclays Commercial Bank

· Francesca Ecsery, General Manager UK, Cheapflights

· Dr Paul Pritchard , Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Royal and SunAlliance

· Adri Kraa, Head of Shop Online!, IKEA

· Sonia Sharples, Head of Human Resources, Poundland Ltd

· Xavier Vallee, Head of Direct Marketing EMEA, Avis Europe plc

· Julie Mathers, Head of CSR, Baugur Group

· David Oliver, Head of Marketing Programmes, Hertz Europe

· Gillian Lipton, Corporate Responsibility Manager, Monsoon Accessorize

· Ged Keogh-Peters , Head of UK Strategy Team, Kurt Salmon Associates

· Helen Mountney, UK Managing Partner, Kurt Salmon Associates

For more information on this must attend retail conference please link to http://www.retailbulletinconferences.com/retail_summit.php

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