Russian Retail Forum

Adam Smith Conferences would like to thank all our speakers, delegates and business partners for their participation in the 9th Annual RUSSIAN RETAIL FORUM 2010 – which took place from 23rd – 25th March 2010 in Moscow, and was extremely well received by all attendees.

In spite of today’s more difficult economic climate, well over 250+ attendees took part in the Forum and the meeting’s atmosphere was lively, upbeat and productive. As always, the event provided a high-level platform for detailed industry updates, as well as outlining strategic development plans for the future. The comprehensive 3-day agenda offered a balanced range of plenary sessions, interactive discussions, panel debates and round tables - not forgetting the extensive networking opportunities provided throughout the event programme.

Your presentations, questions and opinions, as well as your active participation in the debates and discussions made the Forum a great success!

Attendees consider this event to be the annual meeting-place for the industry – a chance to gather with their peers to debate the latest developments, share experiences, and learn about innovations and best practice for the sector from a 50+ strong expert speaker faculty.

This year the speaker faculty was headed up by some of the most influential retail industry figures, both Russian and international, including:

• Lev Khasis, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management Board, X5 Retail Group N.V.
• Ludovic Holinier, Management Control Director, Member of the General Directorate, AUCHAN Russia
• Nikolay Vlasenko, Member of the Board, Group of Companies Viсtoria
• Vincent Guffroy, General Director, LEROY MERLIN Russia
• Stephen Schueler, General Manager, Procter & Gamble
• Bernard Lukey, General Director, Ozon.ru Russia
• Sergey Fomenkov, CEO, New Impuls-50, Internet-Hypermarket UTKONOS
• Alexey Pavlov, Executive Director, SPAR Russia
• Andrey Gusev, General Director, Rigla
• Arkadiy Pekarevskiy, Vice President, SELA
• Mikko Pasanen, Country Director for Russia, Rautakesko
• Aniko Kostyal, Expansion Director, Northern Central & Eastern Europe, MANGO
• Sergey Kolesnik, General Director, System RegionMart
• Sergey Leonov, General Director, United Trade System Centrosoyuz
• Fedor Rybasov, Vice-President, Corporate Relations, Dixy
• Sergey Kushakov, CFO, Mosmart
• Igor  Maryash, General Director, Home Centre
• Ruben Arutyunyan, General Director, Henderson Russia
• Maxim Volgarev, Executive Director, SPAR Russia
 and many more…

As always, the event’s participants provided the greatest value to the Forum, and here are just a few of their opinions: 
“An ideal annual platform for sharing retail practice and increase networking opportunities”,
Ian Strickland, Managing Director, OBI Russia

“Very professional conference, the best today on retail issues in Russia”,
Slawomir Krzyzinski, General Director, Bella East

“An invaluable contribution to resolving the shared problems which the retail market faces today”,
Sergey Khan, Commercial Director, DIAMART

“Distinguished participants, professional organisation, real influence on business”,
Maxim Volgarev, Executive Director, SPAR Russia

“Professional dialogue in a down-to-earth format at the highest level”,
Andrey Grishkin, Regional Sales Support Head Department, Factoring Management, Alfa Bank   

“Good presentation of different opinions in the retail industry”,
Dmitry Tabachnik, Key Account Manager, IBM Eastern Europe / Asia Ltd.  

“One of the best conferences on the Russian retail market today, uniting top decision-makers of the highest echelon”,
Stanislav Krupnik, Senior Consultant, Representative, Strategic/JDA

The 10th Anniversary annual RUSSIAN RETAIL FORUM is scheduled to take place in March/April 2011, and we will keep you updated with more detailed plans for next year’s anniversary event.

For more information on the RUSSIAN RETAIL FORUM 2011, and how you may get involved, please contact Inna Kuzmina on +44 20 7490 6599, or at innak@adamsmithconferences.com
To learn about business partnership and exhibition opportunities, and to find out how you can promote your services to the most influential industry executives in the retail sector, please contact Frank Dewitz by tel: + 44 20 7017 7433 or by email: frank@adamsmithconferences.com

RUSSIAN RETAIL FORUM AWARDS

In March 2010, for the first time ever, Adam Smith Conferences, in partnership with information portal Retailer.Ru and «Retailer magazine» (Russia’s most popular and respected business publication and web portal for retail professionals), presented the “Russian Retail Forum Awards” – an event that honoured the leaders of the Russian retail sector based on their performance or progress over the last 12 months, and that also provided inspiration, guidance and bright ideas to all those working in Russia’s retail sector today.

WINNERS FOR THE AWARDS IN 2010 INCLUDED:
• Retailer of the Year
X5 Retail Group N.V.
• Regional Retailer of the Year
Holiday Classic
• Employer of the Year
AUCHAN Russia
• Supplier of the Year
DANONE Russia
• Retail Manager of the Year
Sergey Galitskiy, General Director, Magnit
• Advertising Campaign of the Year
X5 Retail Group N.V.
• Corporate Social Responsibility Award
X5 Retail Group N.V.

All nominations were judged in each category by a Jury, made up of top experts from the Russian retail community:

• Ilya Belonovsky, Executive Director, Retail Companies Association
• Daniil Somov, Managing Partner, Retailer
• Andrey Sterlin, General Director, Business Analytica
• Stephen Schueler, General Manager, Procter & Gamble
• Kristina Busko, Correspondent, Kommersant