The CEE retail market has matured and is coming through the phase of catharsis that only the most successful companies can survive. Likewise in past years it would be very purposeful to meet and discuss the current state and prospects of retail industry and to search for the right information and inspiration.

The 13th year of the traditional conference - Retail Summit 2007 will take place on February 6-7, 2007 in the congress centre of TOP Hotel Prague. The conference venue will enable excellent conditions for mutual communication of a large number of delegates (similarly to this year’s event we count with about 800 participants) and allow their accommodation outright in the hotel.

Retail Summit 2007 will keep the well-proven program structure and reassume the best practices of the up-to-now most flourishing Summit 2006.  Therefore we can announce the repetition of the very successful “Power Play” (open discussion workshop of retailers and suppliers), of the festive event connected with Golden Ducate awards, discussion workshop “Retail and Government” or performance of the analysis of state and prospects of retail industry in CEE presented together by experts of GfK and INCOMA.

We have prepared also numerous novelties answering to the recent market development, such as:

• Even more attention will be focused on customer and demand trends (eg. presentation of the global life style research by GfK Roper Reports Worldwide or appearance of the Swedish marketer Stefan Engeseth)
• Quality in retail industry will be highly emphasised, as the quality matters have been often suffering under the price pressure (the discussion workshop including retailers, suppliers and control authorities “Retail & Quality” will be targeted namely on these topics)  
• Not only Czech, but also other new EU countries market situation will be affected (most of all in the panel discussion CEE Retail Forum welcoming many guest speakers from CEE countries)
• The program will present the balanced representation of both large and smaller retailers (representatives of independent sector might be inspired e.g. by discussion workshops related to small and medium businesses or to retail development in regions)

Latest information is available at www.retail21.cz/summit. In case of further questions please contact Barbora Krásná (krasna@incoma.cz).