Speakers

David has been the Retail & Development Director of SPAR International since 2016, responsible for new business and the effective expansion and implementation of the SPAR Brand and its multi-format stores worldwide. David has spent over 40 years working in the Food Retail industry. Having joined SPAR in 2009, he was initially responsible for international development in India and the Middle East and sharing retail operations best practices of SPAR. In this role, he developed new SPAR retailing disciplines for the global SPAR network and successfully launched the SPAR brand in the countries of India, Sri Lanka, Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Since 2015, he facilitated, led, coordinated and supported the growth of SPAR into such markets as Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kosovo, Malta, Greece, the Ukraine and more recent market entry into Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Latvia. This complex, multi-disciplined, diverse work gives an alternative perspective on global food retail, adaptability and innovation. SPAR, with its philosophy of ‘Better Together’ unites independent food retailers and wholesalers worldwide, today SPAR has a presence of 13,984 stores with global sales of 47.1 bn Euros in 49 countries worldwide.