Get Smart…and Save $20*
Join Your Colleagues at Natural Products Expo East:
The Premier Educational Event Designed Exclusively
for You, the Independent Retailer!
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
As a major part of our primary goal of supporting independent retailers, NPA East is again partnering with New Hope Natural Media to co-produce the Natural Products Expo East 2008. Building on last year’s successful program, the NPA East Convention Committee collaborated with its counterparts at New Hope Natural Media to create what we believe is an excellent education program that focuses exclusively on those issues most relevant to independent retailers.
NPA East Members Save $20 On Independent Retailer Education
All NPA East members in good standing enjoy a $20 discount off the Education Day
registration fee. Included in the fee for Wednesday’s session is a networking lunch. Give
your brain a rest and connect with your peers. Be a part of this community-building
event designed to provide an opportunity to unwind, refuel, and mingle with colleagues
and industry experts.
Educational Event Topics
- Implementing the best practices of the One-Minute Manager
- Extracting real value from your website
- Implementing “back of the house” best organic practices
- Developing profitable supply chain relationships with your brokers and distributors
- Adding value to your business by recruiting and retaining top-notch candidates
- Examining the social and political implications of producing in China
- Expanding your store or opening a new location
- Successfully integrating frozen foods, dairy, and grab-and-go into your product mix
- Successfully integrating bulk, packaged grocery, non-foods, and general merchandise into your product mix
- Successfully integrating supplements and health and beauty into your product mix
- Understanding country of origin labeling
- Growing your business by focusing on the future opportunities and keeping your eye on the present
- Learning how to manage and raise cash to grow your business
- Creating an in-store demo program
- Creating effective checkout impulse-merchandising, decompression zones, facings, lighting, perishables positioning, product flow, sales-per-square-foot, visual zones, and other merchandising keys
- Cresting a vision of greatness with ZingTrain
GO GREEN AND SAVE GREEN |
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Maybe there is still such a thing as a free lunch!
(At least there is at Expo East)
Natural Products Expo East
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
October 16th, 17th, and 18th, 2008
Take a break from the action at Expo East and join us for lunch and a networking session free to all retailers attending the show. Sponsored by New Hope Natural Media and NPA East, lunch will be held in the Retail Resource Center, located right on the convention floor. What could be more convenient? Enjoy a healthy lunch, network with your fellow retailers, and then get right back to the show. Among the subjects being considered—dealing with the competition, shoplifting, cost-effective advertising, product pricing, bringing community into the store, implementing new technology, or anything else you and your peers might like to discuss.
The networking sessions will be moderated by three NPA East Board members: Denise de la Montaigne, owner, Better Thymes Natural Foods, Front Royal,Virginia; Sue F. Bennett, owner, For Goodness Sake Natural Foods, Leesburg,Virginia; and Jay Jacobowitz, president, Retail Insights, Brattleboro,Vermont.
Location:
Expo East Retail Resource Center
Times:
Thursday, October 16, lunch, 11:30am-1pm
Friday, October 17, lunch, 11:30am-1pm
Saturday, October 18, refreshments, 10:30am-12pm
For more information on the Expo East conference, check out their website at www.expoeast.com
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NPA East Annual Meeting and Advocacy Session: October 16th, 2008 @ 1:00 PM Your Opportunity to Make Yourself Heard
Please plan to attend the Natural Products Association East Annual Meeting during Expo East in Boston.The meeting will take place at 1:00 PM on Thursday, October 16th in Room 252B on the 2nd level following the NPA East lunch presentation in the Retail Resource Center. Take advantage of this important advocacy event to talk directly to your NPA East Board of Directors and hear from them on what your association is doing for you throughout the year. It’s been an exciting and productive time, so please be sure to attend. This is your opportunity to have meaningful input in your association. Don’t miss it!
Learn about proposed state and federal rules to regulate natural products, including the latest victories and threat-management strategies from our federal lobbyists (Jack Martin and Edward Long). Find out from our Natural Products Association leadership (President Debra Short and CEO David Seckman) how you can have your voice heard. Help preserve access to natural products for your business and for your customers.
We are excited about our partnership with Natural Products Expo East; because New Hope Natural Media clearly recognizes that advocacy— NPA East’s local, state, and federal efforts to preserve access to natural products—is critical to the health of our industry.
Please visit our Website, www.npaeast.org, and click on any of the links to "Expo East" to register and for additional information.
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We Keep Your Doors Open. Our Mission: to preserve access to, and facilitate markets for natural products. For more information and to join NPA East, please contact the executive director. |
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