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The
Quote:
"Your most
unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." Bill
Gates, Business at the Speed of
Thought.
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June's Party!
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Retail Insiders Party at Oracle's CrossTalk event
June 15, 2009
9:00-11:00
Reunion Resort, Orlando
June's poshest party is being held at a fabulous resport
in Orlando, alongside the CrossTalk event. You won't want to miss the
swanky atmosphere and senior level networking. Sign up at
Oraclecrosstalk.com.
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When NRF's Big Show moves to DC in
2011, who'll plan your events?
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Cathy Hotka & Associates is ready to leverage
knowledge of the best venues in Washington -- and 158 years of DC family
history -- to help you create the most compelling Big Show
events. The best venues won't last long, so you'll want to think
about your needs now. We'll offer as much assistance as much as
you need from site selection and negotiation to managing your event
with experienced Party planners.
Call 202-549-3954 or email here -- and welcome to Washington!
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RILA and NRF Merge; Mullin Retires
Kennedy will likely take over, bring larger retailers with
her
 The
Retail Industry Leaders Association and the National Retail Federation
have agreed to merge, resulting in a single integrated association representing
retail. Tracy Mullin, who has been president of NRF since the 90s, will
retire.
Changing
of the guard
RILA president
Sandy Kennedy, who was previously a senior vice president
at NRF, will likely take over as RILA's president. Kennedy would
bring with her strong relationships with the CEOs of big-box
retailers, like Wal-Mart and Target, that have avoided NRF.
NRF has long
suffered from its estrangement from Wal-Mart, resulting in a focus
on issues affecting smaller, Main Street retailers. The new,
integrated RILA/NRF merged entity would be free to address a wider
base of issues with a considerably broader and more powerful
membership.
Kennedy, at right,
specializes in creating consensus around topics of common interest with
very senior executives. She enjoys the confidence of retail's top CEOs,
who see her as willing to tackle the issues that retail has largely
avoided. It is her close working relationships with the CEOs of the
largest retail companies that will bring the two organizations
together. Kennedy became president of RILA, formerly
the International Mass Retail Association, and in only a few years
hired the right staff to bring it to national prominence. RILA's
conferences, including the Logistics and Loss Prevention Conferences,
lead the industry in their segments.
The
future
Retail's trade
associations have traditionally been small and underfunded,
and focused more on generating trade show revenue than changing minds
on Capitol Hill. This is in notable contrast to the associations
of more powerful industries like petroleum and
pharmaceuticals. It remains to be seen if the new association's members
will want to have a more robust voice on Capitol Hill and in state
houses around the US, but new management at a combined new RILA/NRF
entity will give them a stronger opportunity to shape their
own future.
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Snippets
 Steve
Bozzo, CIO
of 1-800-FLOWERS,
gives a killer interview in the latest issue of RIS News.
Bill
Miller, former account representative for SAP, is now at Escalate.
Deborah
Lipscomb, former CIO at
Friedman's Jewelers, is now a partner at C Care Solutions.
C Care specializes in helping organizations effectively and
efficiently manage their customer relationships across all customer
touchpoints.
Baron Concors,
CIO at Pizza
Hut, is a dad. Baby Beckett Von Concors weighed in
at a healthy 7 lbs 5 oz,, and 20 inches long. He's a cutie,
too.
Rob
Whittington, former CIO of Wendy's, is now CIO of
Workflow One.
Todd
R. Weiss, a former technology writer for international IT news
source Computerworld.com
for more than eight years and an award-winning journalist for several
daily newspapers, is available for freelance assignments, white papers,
technical writing, news releases, as well as public relations and
community relations projects. Weiss is also assisting start-up Lexy.com
with its new "mobile publishing" Web 2.0 platform that uses
cellphones to send on-the-spot reports to subscribers. Weiss is working
with Lexy to create new ways for retailers
to use the technology to bring in customers and increase sales. To find
out more about this incredible new technology that can help drive your
floor traffic, contact
Weiss at 717-560-1983 or at trwhouse@comcast.net.
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Wendy's/Arby's
is hiring a Manager, Oracle ERP Solutions
. They're looking for someone to manage the Oracle Ebusiness
application support team supporting both the Wendy's and Arby's brands.
Drive efficiencies in processes, interact with the business to identify
inefficient processes and areas where Oracle technology can improve
those processes. See the spec online on LinkedIn under JOBS.
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