JANUARY 2010:  “The New Retail”

Speaker: Marni Shapiro, Managing Partner, The Retail Tracker

DECEMBER 2009: "Fashion Fights Back: Conditions in the Garment District & the Future of NYC as a Fashion Capital"

Speaker: Robert Savage, President, Nanette Lepore

Speakers: Erica Wolf and Heather Pech, CEO, Nanette Lepore

NOVEMBER 2009: "Social Media: Can Facebook, Twitter & Blogs Help Grow a Business?"

Speaker Tim Parry, Senior Writer & Social Media Strategist, Multichannel Merchant

OCTOBER 2009: "Christmas '09: The Retail Forecast"

RMS Board President Lloyd Lippman, Career Management International with speakers Kate McShane, Citigroup; Steven Wieting, Citigroup; Kimberly Greenberger, Citigroup

Speaker: Robert Negron, Sr., N Group NYC LLC

Speaker: David Wolfe, Doneger Creative Services

Panel on "Trends in Off-Price Retail: Carrie Geldner, Tanger Factory Outlet; Paul Hurley, ideeli.com; Jerry Politzer, Loehmann's

SEPTEMBER 2009: "The Current State of Factoring"

Stuart Brister, President & CEO, Wells Fargo Trade Capital

JUNE 2009: "Passion Brands"

Kate Newlin, author of “Passion Brands: Why Some Brands are ‘Just Gotta Have, Drive All Night For, and Tell All Your Friends About’ "

MAY 2009: "Credit Trends in Retailing & Apparel Manufacturing"

Jerry Hirschberg, Standard & Poor’s

Diane Shand, Standard & Poor’s

Jayne Ross, Standard & Poor’s

Jackie Oberoi, Standard & Poors

APRIL 2009: “Luxury Marketers: Changing Strategies to Survive”

Speaker: Greg Furman, Chairman, The Luxury Marketing Council

April Bonus Session: Update on retail sales trends by Angela Jameson, Manager, Research Programs & Projects, International Council of Shopping Centers

MARCH 2009: "Retail Real Estate Trends: 2009 and Beyond"

(l. to r.) Marshall Felenstein, President, Felenstein Was & Associates; Richard O’Connell, Executive VP, Legal & Real Estate, Talbots, Inc.; John E. DeWolf III, Executive VP, Real Estate and Strategic Initiatives, New York & Company, Inc.; Nicholas G. King, Chief Operating Officer & Executive VP, Prime Retail; Henry Goldfarb, Vice Chairman, Retail Group, Grubb & Ellis

FEBRUARY 2009: "The Troubled World of Retailing"

Speakers: Arthur Steinberg, Partner, King & Spalding Robert Raskin, Managing Director, SB Capital Group, LLC

JANUARY 2009 MEETING: "Chaos and Opportunity"

January speaker Paco Underhill, founder & CEO, Envirosell

Paco Underhill signing copies of his new book

DECEMBER 2008 MEETING: "The Migration from Catalog to Web"

December speaker Stephanie Sobel, Redcats Group USA