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World Retail Congress 2010

Where global retailers meet

Oracle World Retail Awards shortlist announced! See the full list today and register for WRC2010 today to attend the event!

1000+ retail leaders attending
50+ countries represented
100+ industry expert speakers
40 interactive business streams, keynotes and executive roundtables
20+ hours of facilitated networking

Join Cordes, Sorrell and Segal at the only global meeting place for board-level retail executives. See the latest programme for more details.

Gordon Segal Chairman and Co-Founder, Crate and Barrel	Angela Ahrendts CEO, Burberry	Bijou Kurien President & CEO, Reliance Retail	Bernie Brooks CEO, Myer	Exclusive interview Launa Inman CEO, Target Australia
Hans Schmitt Senior Vice President Europe/Middle East, Hugo Boss	Philipp Schindler Vice President, Northern and Central Europe, Google	Lev Khasis CEO, X5	Exclusive interview Mindy Grossman CEO, HSN Inc	Dr Eckhard Cordes Chairman and CEO, Metro Group

Let Sir Martin Sorrell CEO, of WPP provide clear insight into today's fast changing world	Matt Rubel Chairman, CEO and President of Collective Brands, on how to serve today's consumer	Unsurpassed understanding on luxury brands from former LVMH executive, Concetta Lanciaux
Hear from the UK's highly respected retail turnaround expert, Simon Fox, CEO of HMV	Find out how Tony DeNunzio turned Maxeda into a star European performer	Mango's Vice President of Business development Jose Gomez on how the fashion retailer became an international giant
One of the founding fathers of American internet retailing - JC Penney's Richard Last	Tesco built the largest online food site from its .com CEO, Laura Wade-Gery	Netto International's managing director, Claus Jeul-Jensen reveals what value meant to them

Over 80 speakers confirmed so far! See the programme for more details.

Andrew Jennings, Former Managing Director, Woolworths SA
Eric Kuhne, Founder, Eric Kuhne and Associates
Sarita Nayyar, Head of Consumer industries, World Economic Forum US
Paul Alexander, CEO, Beyond Analysis
Bob Thacker, Senior Vice President- Marketing & Advertising, OfficeMax
Fidi Jabbour, Head of Retail, The Chalhoub Group
Gilbert Harrison, Chairman, Financo
James Bidwell, European Managing Director, Anthropologie
Kevin Burke, President and CEO, The American Apparel and Footwear Association
Dana Fiser, Vice President Corporate Operations, Jenny Craig - US & Canada
Lev Khasis, CEO, X5
Rob Norman, Global CEO, Group M Interaction
Sandy Kennedy, President, Retail Industry Leaders Association
Shahram Shamsaee, Senior Vice President, Majd Al Futtaim
Steve Tappin, CEO, Xinfu and Author of "Secrets of CEOs"

The only event that brings together executives from these retailers:

Nike Inc / Metro Markets / C&A / The Body Shop International / The Disney Store / Myer Pty / Falabella Retail / ILVA / Remind A/S / Azizia Panda United / Flying A / Li & Fung / Wall Street Journal Europe/ Stockmann / WGSN / GroupM Interaction / CBR Fashion Holding /Lagardere Services / ABC SAL Department Stores / Team A Ventures / Tesco.com / Parfois / Dymocks / WPP The Store / Groupe Adeo / Deutsche Telekom AG / Happychic / Tchibo / Debenhams / Polbita / Fawaz Alhokair / Fedis / Intres B.V. / Saga Falabela S.A. / Flexa / Ilyas & Mustafa Galadari / Pão de Açúcar / RCG / Boots / Limited Brands / Burberry / Kingfisher Group / Swisscom / Metro Markets / Liwa Trading Enterprises / Mango / Daymon Worldwide / Foschini / Hervis Sport / Kesko / VV-Auto / Womenswear Daily / Anttila Oy / Rautakesko / Levi Strauss / Azizia Panda / Inspire / Anthropologie.. plus many more….

WRC Overview video

What is World Retail Congress?

	An industry-devised, board-level forum that discusses issues affecting the international retail industry; covering core sector issues as well as social, economic, political and ethical concerns
	Three days of business-critical content, focussed on the global retail CEO agenda in a variety of formats designed to evoke meaningful exchange between you and your peers on and off stage
	100 leading retail industry speakers addressing your key issues
	Over 20 hours of quality networking opportunities with other retail business heads
	The landmark of a year in retail – rewarding innovation with the Oracle World Retail Awards, celebrating fresh talent with the Retail Futures Challenge and noting years of blood, sweat and tears in the name of retail for those that are nominated in the Hall of Fame

What is new for WRC2010?

After 3 successful years in Barcelona, this year WRC will take place in the city of Berlin and returns with several new features:

the highly acclaimed Retail Futures Challenge will be expanded with more retail colleges from around the world sending their brightest and best retail students to Berlin and for Congress delegates to select the winning team
executive roundtables: smaller workshop formats that will allow delegates to experience first-hand the very latest online, digital and social networking channels soon to be adopted by consumers
retail study tours as well as receptions and the Gala Dinner key networking events that will be held in the heart of the city

Who’s steering the content for this year’s Congress?

Teknosa, LuxAdvisory, Woolworths SA, Alshaya, Mango, Financo, Tesco, Shoppers Stop, Li & Fung, Macy's, Kingfisher, CCFA, Pao de Acucar, Myer, Inditex, Fawaz AlHokhair, Target Australia, Old England and Wu Mart

See the full list of Advisory Board members here.