Gildenberg to Address NARMS Retail Leaders

Retail industry leaders gathering at the NARMS International Spring Conference & 14th Annual Meeting next April will hear a retail industry trend perspective shared by Bryan Gildenberg, Chief Knowledge Officer of Management Ventures, Inc., a retail research and consulting firm supplying breakthrough retail insight, analysis and thought leadership. Gildenberg last spoke to the NARMS leaders in 2006.

Gildenberg will keynote the opening general session of the NARMS Conference on Sunday afternoon, April 5. As MVI’s Chief Knowledge Officer since 2004, Gildenberg oversees MVI’s Analysis and Insight efforts and is often cited as a global expert in retail insight by leading business publications and electronic media worldwide.

The annual NARMS spring conference is a gathering point for hundreds of retailers, manufacturers, retail support service specialists and associate member service personnel.
NARMS is also widely known for its professional retail job recruitment web-hosting via the JobBank database and other on-line tools, including The Recruiter, Career Connection and on-line training modules.

NARMS International’s 506-member companies perform over $3 billion in merchandising services, sales marketing, event marketing, demonstration and other retail services annually. The international trade association promotes and establishes industry standards and provides critical industry research and educational information about the industry with member companies servicing such classes of trade as: grocery, drug, mass, department, home & building centers, computer & office supply, electronic, value retailers, specialty and convenience retailers.

Additional information about NARMS and retail industry positions are available at www.narms.com with details to follow about the 2009 NARMS Spring Conference & Exposition at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, CO on April 4-7.

Contact:
Ken McKenzie, Vice President
National Association for Retail Marketing Services
2417 Post Road #A
Stevens Point, WI 54481
Phone: 1 888 52 NARMS
kmckenzie@narms.com

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