ECR Europe Forum & Marketplace

Plenary 1: The Future of Growth - The shopper centre stage

Opening by ECR Europe Co-chairs

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman and CEO, Nestlé Group, and Anders Moberg, President and CEO, Ahold, on serving the shopper through innovation.

The future value chain - Our industry in 2016

José Luis Duran, Chairman of the Management Board, Carrefour, and A.G. Lafley, CEO, P&G, on where our industry will be a decade from now. Introduced by Peter Jordan, Director International B2B Strategy, Kraft Foods.

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Panel discussion

Forum moderator, Alex Thomson, Presenter and Chief Correspondent for ITN's/Channel 4 News, interviewed session speakers on "The Future of Growth".

Plenary 2: Leaders of Growth - Innovating for the consumer

What innovation for sustainable growth

Meeting the challenges of the changing world means innovating through a combination of creativity and a vision of the future. Putting people and the future at the centre of our business vision is the only way forward.

Guido Barilla, Chairman, Barilla

Seizing the Invisible Opportunity

New business models open up when we work with consumers to solve their needs rather than just selling them products, and when we can respond by making and shipping every product every week: an introduction to the issues debated in greater depth at the May 10 mini-plenary on Breaking through to synchronised production.

Dan Jones, Chairman, Lean Enterprise Academy

A partnership for growth

In the 2007 fast-moving context, enterprises and retailers cannot stop to think, but must continue to test innovative projects. Market leaders need to take rapid action based on a strategic vision of the future. Coop Italia and L'Oréal have developed a completely new agreement based on full partnership from supply chain to store to produce "Excellence" based on the ECR framework.

Giorgina Gallo, CEO, L'Oréal Saipo, and Vincenzo Tassinari, Chairman, Coop Italy

Making the most of GDSN

Combined implementation of a solid data quality programme together with data synchronisation can make you a leader of growth. It has delivered higher-than-expected business benefits and efficiencies in the sales and merchandising processes for both retailers and suppliers: an introduction to the issues debated in greater depth at the May 10 mini-plenary on Data quality and data synchronisation equals business value.

Sally Herbert, President, GS1 GDSN

Plenary 3: The Growth Challenge - The shopper of tomorrow

The Inflection Point: Critical Pathways in Food Retailing

The Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council Europe unveiled its latest report, exploring the critical moments in retailing that signal permanent and enduring change. The study consolidated exclusive interviews with twenty-seven retail CEOs and senior executives from Europe and North America.

Research led by McMillan|Doolittle, with WPP/The Store, MVI, and Henley Centre HeadlightVision.

Presented by Neil Stern, Senior Partner, McMillan|Doolittle and Nikos Veropoulos, CEO, Group Veropoulos.

The challenges ahead

Top executives and a leading academic thrashed out their views on the challenges in collaboration for the next decade.

Speakers included

Philip Clarke, International and IT Director, Tesco;

Robert Leechman, Chief Customer & Commercial Officer, The Coca-Cola Company;

Tom Peterson, General Manager Consumer Products Industry, IBM;

Roberto Crapelli, Head of Mediterranean Region, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants;

Ludo van der Heyden, Professor, Insead;

John Zealley, managing director-Products Management Consulting & Integrated Markets, Accenture.

Closing words

ECR Europe Co-chairs, Anders Moberg and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, shared their thoughts on the highlights of the 2007 forum.

Forum Co-chairs, Ramon Celada and Vincenzo Tassinari, invited the audience to join us again in 2008.

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