Magazines and Business Media 2008

Retail

Aimed at anyone with a vested interest in newsstand sales, this session will look at how the industry is balancing the increasing pressures of the retail supply chain while working hard to drive sales. 


09.00 Welcome from Helen Alexander CBE, CEO The Economist Group and PPA Chairman, and Jonathan Shephard, PPA Chief executive
09.15 Media providers and the 2012 Games
Lord Coe
09.45 The creative future
Alan Yentob, BBC creative director, interviewed by Torin Douglas
10.10 Magazine Week

 10.15-10.45 Coffee break 

10.45 Retail seminar begins
  Hot or cold: what is the retail forecast?
Adam Leyland, editor of The Grocer magazine will provide delegates with critical insights into the current retail climate. The session will cover the key trends in the retail environment and the implications for magazine sales includes a Q+A.
11.35

Efficiency, improving what’s already being done
Better collaboration means a more effective and efficient supply chain. This session will focus on how the industry has been working to drive greater efficiencies in the past 12 months and the crossindustry initiatives in the pipeline.

12.10 Working towards a common goal.... selling more magazines!
PPA’s Retail Marketing Group’s (RMG) objective is to boost magazine sales across the retail spectrum. Speakers from the RMG will update delegates on some innovative new ways they are pioneering to excite retailers about the magazine category and drive sales.

12.45-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Rejoin main conference or specialist session

16.00-16.30 Tea

14.00

View from the top – including
Peter Phippen – BBC Magazines
Nicholas Coleridge – The Condé Nast Publications
James Tye – Dennis
Stevie Spring – Future plc
Sylvia Auton – IPC Media
Andrew Hirsch – John Brown
Clive Foskett – Signature Publishing

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