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