On Tuesday
April,19 2014 I was one of over 500 participants in the second annual Regional
Retail Forum in Campinas,
organized by ACIC Associação Comercial e Industrial de Campinas
and CDL Campinas the Camara de Dirigentes Lojistas de Campinas.
Adriana
Flosi,
President of ACIC and CDL opened the ceremony, welcomed the participants, guest
speakers and authorities including the Mayor of Campinas
Jonas Donizette and Brazilian
Congress Member Guilherme Campos.
The guest
speakers covered a wide variety of topics relating to retail industry,
entrepreneurs and business owners with focus on challenges and opportunities for
growth in the retail sector of Brazil.
In the
morning session Mauricio
Morgado, professor FGV and Gustavo Carrer of SEBRAE, SP
showed tendencies and exaples from their visits to the United States and
participation in the NRF Retail Show in New York.
Claudio Bobrow, founder of Puket offered a very colorful and
invigorating presentation on the growth of his company.
Luiza
Helena Trajano
of Magazine Luiza talked of the
great potential for growth in the consumer market in Brazil, the need for unity
among members of the retail sector mentioning the gains made through the IDV Instituto
para Desenvolvimento do Varejo.
At the
lunch break I had the pleasure of sharing a table with two of the afternoon speakers,
Dorival Dourado CEO of Boa Vista Servicos and Dr.
Marcelo Schulman, President of Vita Derm Cosmetics
Other
presentations in the afternoon session regarding challenges in family business
and opportunities for growth were conducted by Mauricio Morlan, Santander
Global Banking, Romeu Zema,
Grupo Zema, Roberto
Longo, Grupo Sonda and Isabel Medeiros Grupo Trigo /
Spoleto.
Easy to see the Forum was both a great learning and networking experience.
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| Adriana Flosi , Presidint CIC Campinas,Welcome Ceremony |
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| The Mayor of Campinas Jonas Donizette |
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| Luiza Helena Trajano |
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| Adriana Flosi |
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| ACIC Campinas Staff |
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| Marcelo Schulman, Vita Derm |
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| Networking ACIC Campinas Retail Forum |
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| Networking at the ACIC Campinas Retail Forum |
