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6th Annual Walmart and Sam's Club Sustainable Packaging Exposition

Date: April 12 - 13
Time: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: John Q. Hammons Covention Center in Rogers, AR
 

Description: The Walmart and Sam's Club Packaging Sustainable Value Network will be hosting the 6th Annual Sustainable Packaging Exposition, highlighting innovation, cost savings and continued improvement in packaging over the past five years.

Background: The Sustainable Packaging Exposition will connect buyers, product suppliers, and packaging suppliers, to continue Walmart Stores Inc.'s progress towards more sustainable packaging. Learn about how you can participate in this progress and find more sustainable packaging options for products in your category.

 Registration: All attendees will need to register through www.walmart.walmartmeetings.com.


Sustainable Brands Conference 2011

June 7-10, 2011
Monterey, CA

Save the date for Sustainable Brands Conference 2011.  Tomorrow's brand leaders come to our conferences to grapple with the dynamic economic, environmental and societal context in which their brands sit today. Learning to rethink what they do, how they do it and how they communicate is paramount. Join us at Sustainable Brands '11 to learn how tomorrow's brand leaders are creating tomorrow, today!

Why Attend?
The Sustainable Brands Conference is the preeminent international conference for executives throughout your organization who are looking to understand the unfolding market drivers and leading-edge strategies, tactics and tools for building business and brand value by innovating for sustainability.

http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/events/sb11


In-Store Show

29 - 30 June 2011,
Grand Hall, Olympia, London, UK

The UK's largest retail marketing event, supported by Marketing Week and founding partner POPAI.

Retail marketers and brand managers will experience thousands of new, inspirational and cost effective solutions to improve in store performance. This is your chance to find out the latest trends and industry thinking in all areas of in-store marketing including; sustainable, traditional and digital, through to the truly creative! 

The In-Store Show is part of Marketing Week Live, the destination for the modern marketer, bringing together the best online marketing, market research and data marketing.

Green Retail - just announced

Announcing the brand new line up for Green Retail - learn from the experts in sustainable retail products and initiatives.

http://www.instoreshow.co.uk/ 


The Asia Pacific Retail Conference

Kuala Lumpur
September 14-15, 2011

 Sustainability Issues in the Supply Chain

"Innovation in Retailing and the Implication for Management, Environmental, Economic and Social Policies and Strategies for Competitiveness" 

About the conference 

In the post crisis period, wide ranging changes are necessary not only to improve sustainability but to anticipate market forces volatility in the medium to long term. Within the context of a number of regional and international environmental, economic and trade agreements, retail businesses and those that are linked to them, either backward or forward, needs to be ready for changes in the competitive environment both from within their own economy and from external sources. This conference brings together industry, policy makers and regulators, and researchers from academia or consultancy firms to focus on issues of sustainability and strategies for raising competitiveness in distributive services industries and those closely connected to them.

http://aprc2011.com/


RILA Environmental Sustainability Conference 2011

Wednesday October 12, 2011 at 08:00AM EDT 
Friday October 14, 2011 at 05:00PM EDT
Orlando, Florida 

The Environmental Sustainability & Compliance Conference (ESCC) brings together executives involved in establishing environmental programs and integrating green practices into their companies. The conference's program will address the key operational aspects of environmental sustainability and compliance for the retail industry, including sessions on energy, waste management, water conservation, store operations, real estate development, supply chain issues, and opportunities for improving corporate social responsibility.

Make sure you plan to attend the only sustainability conference designed and presented by retailers, for retailers.

http://www.rila.org/events/conferences/environmentalsustainabilitycompliance/Pages/default.aspx


 

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