Arriving 12 - 14th May 2025. London. World Retail Congress returns for the 2025 edition to London: a city of exceptional retail. Join the world's top retail leaders to share stories of success, growth and new thinking. As we work carefully alongside leading voices in retail to design a programme of talks, workshops, tours and meetings that answer the questions top of mind for retail executives today, ensure you are up-to-date for all announcements by registering your interest today: https://lnkd.in/dEcRA8iM What does the premier meeting place for global retail leaders look like? Take a look at all the action from earlier this year for a taste of what is to come... https://lnkd.in/dwHkBKrM ANITA MENDIRATTA SEPHORA Carrefour JD Sports Fashion Crate and Barrel Mattel, Inc. Fabletics adidas Claire's AWWG Mars Conspiracy of Love Decathlon EDENS Olio • Share More, Waste Less Vasiliki Petrou
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Faster, bolder, smarter - the new retail growth drivers
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The 2025 World Retail Congress will be taking place at the Hilton, Park Lane, London on 12th - 14th May 2025.
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- 2007
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With the end of the Olympics and summer coming to an abrupt close in the UK, we're reminiscing about the incredible 2024 World Retail Congress. Take the time to cozy up with the Chairman's Review and re-live the excitement of the Congress in Paris. Containing reflections on some of the most powerful sessions, examining what it takes to be truly high-performing in today's challenging retail environment to exclusive insight from our report partners this is an unmissable read. Download your copy today: #WRC25 #congress #insight #retail #leadership #highperformance #paris #olympics
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With research for the 2025 World Retail Congress agenda in full flow, and as the team interview retail leaders from across the world on their priorities, challenges and visions for the future, one thing becomes ever-more evident: retailing today requires more resilience, more speed and more agility than ever before... We were delighted to welcome Alexandre Bompard, Chairman and CEO of Carrefour to the World Retail Congress stage in April as he discussed how these pillars of truth sat at the heart of their strategy. Looking forward, these ever-moving sands seem set to stay... and building spaces for retail leaders to discuss how to keep pace remains central to the World Retail Congress. What are your top questions for industry leaders? #WRC25 #retail #leadership #conference #events #carrefour
At this year’s World Retail Congress in Paris, Alexandre Bompard, Chairman and CEO of Carrefour, spoke for most retailers when he said in his opening address that “our industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Dealing with crisis after crisis has become the new normal for us”. Having spent the last few weeks speaking with retailers around the world about how they see their immediate business priorities to help Niamh Stone and I build the strongest possible agenda for next year’s World Retail Congress; this sense of perpetual crisis has only grown stronger. This really is a time of unprecedented challenges and something the retail industry has never had to face before. Retailers always accepted that they couldn’t influence economic factors and just got on with the job. But over the last four years everything has now changed as we’ve had to face into a global pandemic, massive jumps in inflation, a cost-of-living crisis, supply chain disruption, global conflict, climate catastrophes and political turmoil with multiple elections around the world. All converging together just as retailing itself is facing enormous structural change. If you were a political leader of a country, you would say this comes with the job. When asked what the greatest challenge for any statesperson was, the former British Prime Minister from the late1950s, Harold MacMillan, famously replied: “events, dear boy, events”. But that’s not what business leaders have been used to. One major retailer told me that in looking back over their career, they used to believe that they could control or influence 70% of the business performance. Today, they said, this has flipped around completely. So if this is the new normal for retailers, how should retailers adapt in order to survive? What we hear consistently is that doing nothing and battening down the hatches waiting for “normal” conditions to return is not an option. They simply aren’t. What the winning retailers are focused on is the need to build resilience, to move faster than ever before, to question how to do things better right across the business, to stay even closer to your customers, to take risks, to find the new and exciting and to rethink all established approaches. As Alexandre Bompard went on to say in his World Retail Congress address: “we must be prepared to adapt at full speed because that is what retail demands……..the road ahead won’t be smooth but it is our role to navigate these changes successfully”. #wrc2025
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Have you listened to the first season of the World Retail Podcast from World Retail Congress yet? In our first interview, we were delighted to be joined by Peter Pernot-Day from SHEIN to talk fast growth, global scale and consumer-centricity. It's a brand truly bringing disruption to the industry with a new proposition and a fast-growing consumer share. Hear more about what has underpinned that success here. The full season of Disrupt or Be Disrupted is live, so catch up on more inspirational interviews here: https://lnkd.in/eS-aBUGY And stay tuned for the next season, coming soon! #WRC25 #retail #events #transformation #growth #conference #shein
It is here! Our first episode of the World Retail Podcast is now live. Join Ian McGarrigle, Chair of World Retail Congress and Matt Clark, Partner and Managing Director at AlixPartners, for the first instalment of our series, ‘Disrupt or be Disrupted’, focusing on why the old business models are no longer fit for purpose. Our first guest is Peter Pernot-Day, Head of Strategy & Communications for the US and UK at SHEIN, finding out what underpins the retailer’s incredible success and rapid growth. Subscribe and listen to the full episode here: https://spoti.fi/3wXCnBn #WRC2024 #WorldRetailPodcast
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World Retail Congress has a new home! Last month, it was announced that following a successful Management Buy-Out, the Congress is now owned by World Retail Congress Ltd., led by Ian McGarrigle, Hanna Jackson and Imogen Jones. The next edition of the World Retail Congress will be taking place in London, 12th - 14th May 2025. The summer has been busy as the team interview retailers, partners and experts across the world to feed into an agenda that speaks to the urgent needs of industry leaders today. As the industry continues to face change at an extraordinary pace, the need to lean into learning from and connecting with peers remains paramount. We are delighted and honoured to host those important conversations. Stay tuned for more detail coming soon! Follow our page and never miss an update! https://lnkd.in/g2ypey-X Niamh Stone Milan Maksimovic Natalie Wilkins #WRC25 #events #retail #leadership #conference #london
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The Lead Summit is back and bigger than ever. Are you attending? We have a select number of free passes for brand and retail friends and 25% off for non-brand, non-retail friends as well! Brand and retail can register here free (please add our name in the 'how did you hear about us' field): https://bit.ly/3wFc1V6 And for non-brand, non-retail you can use this link for 25% off: https://bit.ly/3QMJ5Bp The sharpest minds in the industry will gather in workshops, assemblies, meetings and sessions by day and then the Sunset Yacht Party, dozens of dinners and multiple parties by night. The Lead Summit lives at the intersection of brand, innovation and technology. Over 180 speakers, 45 roundtable discussions, 8 workshops and the brightest minds in the industry will produce your innovation roadmap. Register today to be there in New York from the 10th-11th July: https://bit.ly/3wFc1V6 #TheLeadSummit
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Episode 6 of the World Retail Podcast is out now! In this latest episode from our series, 'Disrupt or be Disrupted', Matt Clark, Partner and Managing Director, AlixPartners and Ian McGarrigle, Chairman of World Retail Congress, talk to James Reinhart the Co-Founder and CEO of ThredUp, the online resale platform for apparel, about how his drive is to disrupt fashion and force the industry to embrace the circular economy. Listen now on your normal podcast platform: https://bit.ly/3TCBuqG #WorldRetailPodcast
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How should retail leaders embrace the AI revolution? At this year’s World Retail Congress, my colleague Veena Marr hosted a panel with digital leaders from Keystone AI, Google Cloud and DECATHLON FRANCE to consider how this technology can benefit customers and retailers.
Although retail leaders have long used #AI in their supply chains and in store, Generative AI is ushering a new and exciting era for customers and retailers alike. It was a pleasure to discuss these important issues at this year’s World Retail Congress with Devesh Mishra, ERIC CHEMOUNY and Nozha Boujemaa. Find out why it will take a village to really maximise the technology’s impact: #WRC Sally Elliott Susan Hart Adeline Ducray Dr. Christof Hirsch Ann Elmquist Gyorgy Konda Matt Mercer Charlie Stack Fabio Moioli Christian Till Roga Aidan O'Brien https://lnkd.in/ewq-F63N
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Episode 6 of the World Retail Podcast is out now! In this latest episode from our series, 'Disrupt or be Disrupted', Matt Clark, Partner and Managing Director, AlixPartners and Ian McGarrigle, Chairman of World Retail Congress, talk to James Reinhart the Co-Founder and CEO of ThredUp, the online resale platform for apparel, about how his drive is to disrupt fashion and force the industry to embrace the circular economy. Listen now on your normal podcast platform: https://bit.ly/3TCBuqG #WorldRetailPodcast
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The World Retail Congress 2024 Chairman's Review is now available to download! This report gives you access to the very best of this year's event. Capture all of the ideas, themes, soundbites and insights that came alive on stage, delivered by a truly world-class line-up of speakers. Get your hands on this essential guide and learn about the top discussion topics, suggested lessons to apply to your business and the bespoke research that made the Congress so impactful to all those that were in attendance. Download your free copy today: https://bit.ly/3R47TVn #WRC2024 #ChairmansReview2024
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