This year’s Retra Conference will take place at the Double Tree by Hilton, Coventry on October 17.
The theme is ‘A Sustainable Industry’, and the event will feature a range of industry heavyweights in the line-up, along with guest experts and the ever-popular retail panel.
The conference focuses on the things that matter to electrical retailers – the sustainability of both our industry and our sector.
The host for the day will be the popular journalist and broadcaster, Declan Curry (pictured).
Not only will he run the conference, but he will also provide his personal insight into the economic outlook for the UK.
The keynote speaker will be Steve Fowler, editor-in-chief of Auto Express.
He has been writing about cars for over 30 years, is used as a resident ‘car guru’ on BBC Radio Five Live and BBC Radio Four’s You and Yours, and been a motoring pundit on BBC TV, ITV and Sky News, and on national and local radio.
Mr Fowler will look at the whole switch to electric vehicles and what this means for retailers’ delivery and installation teams.
When is the right time to go green with your fleet of vehicles? Mr Fowler will hopefully provide the answers.
Some other guest speakers already confirmed are: Nick Simon, GfK’s client insight director, consumer electronics; Paul Hide, CEO of AMDEA; Andrew Goodacre, CEO of BIRA (British Independent Retailers Association), and Robert Williamson, national business development manager at Symphony.
There will also be speakers from both Repic and Material Focus, looking at the recycling challenge.
Paul Laville, founder and owner of T21, will also be outlining Retra’s new approach to training and its website.
In addition, there will be the formal launch of the new Retra Risk Assist management website.
This will be presented by Rosalind Klass, managing director of Health & Safety Click.
Retra Risk Assist is a very comprehensive toolkit and will be available free to all members.
If you need templates for HR, risk assessments and a whole resource centre it’s all there – and it’s free.
The conference will close with a panel of retailers answering members’ questions and is always a popular feature of the day.
On the evening of October 16, there will be a welcome dinner, which is free to anyone attending the conference.
Many of Retra’s associate members will be at both the dinner and the conference.
The dinner is a great opportunity to mingle over a meal and a few drinks, in a relaxed atmosphere.
There will also be an opportunity to meet three new associate members, Creda, AP Taylor and Vispera.
There are 125 free places available for the conference – one per membership – and the welcome dinner.
Extra places can be booked for a small charge.
If you would like to attend the Retra Conference, please email: pat.sheldrake@retra.co.uk
Look out for more information on the conference in the forthcoming autumn issue of Retra’s Alert magazine.
The theme is ‘A Sustainable Industry’, and the event will feature a range of industry heavyweights in the line-up, along with guest experts and the ever-popular retail panel.
The conference focuses on the things that matter to electrical retailers – the sustainability of both our industry and our sector.
The host for the day will be the popular journalist and broadcaster, Declan Curry (pictured).
Not only will he run the conference, but he will also provide his personal insight into the economic outlook for the UK.
The keynote speaker will be Steve Fowler, editor-in-chief of Auto Express.
He has been writing about cars for over 30 years, is used as a resident ‘car guru’ on BBC Radio Five Live and BBC Radio Four’s You and Yours, and been a motoring pundit on BBC TV, ITV and Sky News, and on national and local radio.
Mr Fowler will look at the whole switch to electric vehicles and what this means for retailers’ delivery and installation teams.
When is the right time to go green with your fleet of vehicles? Mr Fowler will hopefully provide the answers.
Some other guest speakers already confirmed are: Nick Simon, GfK’s client insight director, consumer electronics; Paul Hide, CEO of AMDEA; Andrew Goodacre, CEO of BIRA (British Independent Retailers Association), and Robert Williamson, national business development manager at Symphony.
There will also be speakers from both Repic and Material Focus, looking at the recycling challenge.
Paul Laville, founder and owner of T21, will also be outlining Retra’s new approach to training and its website.
In addition, there will be the formal launch of the new Retra Risk Assist management website.
This will be presented by Rosalind Klass, managing director of Health & Safety Click.
Retra Risk Assist is a very comprehensive toolkit and will be available free to all members.
If you need templates for HR, risk assessments and a whole resource centre it’s all there – and it’s free.
The conference will close with a panel of retailers answering members’ questions and is always a popular feature of the day.
On the evening of October 16, there will be a welcome dinner, which is free to anyone attending the conference.
Many of Retra’s associate members will be at both the dinner and the conference.
The dinner is a great opportunity to mingle over a meal and a few drinks, in a relaxed atmosphere.
There will also be an opportunity to meet three new associate members, Creda, AP Taylor and Vispera.
There are 125 free places available for the conference – one per membership – and the welcome dinner.
Extra places can be booked for a small charge.
If you would like to attend the Retra Conference, please email: pat.sheldrake@retra.co.uk
Look out for more information on the conference in the forthcoming autumn issue of Retra’s Alert magazine.
