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2002 - 2003 Season
11th Annual Golf Tournament Rescheduled Date from May 2003 September 17, 2003
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Ernst & Young LLP, KPMG LLP and Deloitte & Touche LLP
Tournament Winners: Top Three Finishing Teams - 1st Place - Paul Lobue, SAS Institute; Keith Morrow, 7-Eleven Corp.; Mark Zahorik, Rapp Collins; & Denis Wojcik, SAS Institute 2nd Place - Scott Miracle, Jim Bradow, Kevin White & Doug Manko - all with Ernst & Young LLP 3rd Place - Jason Viers, Dan Hornback, Matt Evans, & Adam Vageley - all with Footstar
Closest to the Pin - Paul Estep with JCPenney Corp.
Longest Drive - Layne Campman with Parson Consulting
April 9, 2003 Dinner Meeting
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L M E Y E R S Retail
Forward, Inc. Vice
President, Business Development
Mr. Meyers' topic - Fresh off the press - Retailing 2010
2010 is only seven short years away, but the retail world in 2010 will be substantially different than today. Consumer targets, categories, channels of distribution, and companies will all undertake transformation. What does the future hold in store for regional malls, Internet marketing, globalization, and trading partner behavior? How will changes in the economy, consumer estate markets, marketing practices, and competitor dynamics affect your company's future?
Al
is Vice President, Business Development for Retail
Forward, Inc. He is responsible for the sale of Retail
Forward's Intelligence Programs, including the North
American Intelligence Program, the Global Intelligence
Program and the E-Retail Intelligence Program. He is also
responsible for consulting sales in the Midwest Region of
the U.S. Al also serves as a member of Retail Forward's
Management Committee. Prior
to joining Retail Forward, Al served as Director of Senn-Delaney/Arthur
Andersen's retail strategy practice. He also has 18 years
of consulting experience with the Management Horizons
Division of Price Waterhouse where he assisted retailers
and consumer goods suppliers with strategic planning and
marketing strategy. Al's
retail consulting experience includes developing
strategies and implementation plans for improving market
positioning, customer focus, competitive appeals and
merchandising economics. Al's experience with consumer
products companies includes marketing, brand strategies,
developing retail distribution strategies, selling new
channels, introducing new products and advising clients
on the success requirements for effective implementation
of retail marketing programs. Select
retail and consumer products clients include Bombay
Company, Brinker International's Eatzi's Home Meal
Replacement Concept, Builder's Square, CompUSA, Country
General Stores Division of ConAgra, DeBeers, General
Mills, Goody's Family Clothing, Grupo Alfa/Mexico,
Hallmark Cards, Hancock Fabrics, Hanes, Kirkland's
Stores, Kodak, Meijer, Newell, Payless Cashways,
Pennsylvania House, Petro Shopping Centers, Philips
Consumer Electronics, Pepsi-Cola, Ralston Purina, R.J.
Reynolds, Sara Lee Direct Outlet Stores, Shell Oil Co.,
Standard Brands Paint, Venture Stores, and West Bend. Al
is a frequent speaker at national industry trade shows
and conferences on retail issues and is a regular
contributor on retailing issues for publications
including The Wall Street Journal, The Dallas Morning
News, Furniture Today, The Fort Worth Star Telegram, The
Dallas Business Journal, and Advertising Age. Al authored
the Management Horizons' reports, Retailing to the
Affluent, Acquisitions and Homegoods Preview.
March 12, 2003 Dinner Meeting
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O N A L D G R I F F I N Fleming
Companies, Inc. Executive
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Delivering Value through IT - Powerpoint presentation
Ronald Griffin joined Fleming in January 2002 as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Ron is responsible for the implementation of Fleming’s F1 project that will replace the various systems and processes across the company with common software packages and processes. These improvements are aimed at giving everyone improved tools to do their job more efficiently and providing our customers a world-class supply chain. Prior to joining Fleming, Ron was the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for The Home Depot where he has held a number of key IT positions for the past 10 years, during the company’s rapid growth. A 20-year IT veteran, Griffin's career has been primarily focused on leveraging technology for greater supply chain efficiencies in the retail sector.
February 12, 2003 Dinner Meeting
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A V I D J. E D M O N S O N RadioShack
Corporation President
and Chief Operating Officer
With more than $4.8 billion in annual sales and 7,200 locations, RadioShack is one of the nation's largest retailers of consumer electronics. Edmondson is responsible for developing strategies for RadioShack that exploit its most leverageable assets - namely, its pervasive distribution, unique product line, and most important, its friendly, knowledgeable associates. While the company continues to differentiate itself in the marketplace and expand its leadership position, Edmondson is executing RadioShack's vision to be the most admired growth company in America by leading a team of people charged with making RadioShack the best place to shop in America. Edmondson, who joined RadioShack in 1994 as Vice President of Marketing, was promoted to his current position in December 2000. Prior to his promotion, Edmondson served as Senior Vice President of RadioShack Corporation and Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer of the RadioShack Retail Division. Edmondson was responsible for crafting the strategy that brought RadioShack's Circle R creative group back in-house and has since developed into a world-class advertising and marketing agency. He has also been responsible for negotiating and implementing several strategic marketing partnerships and alliances, including those with Sprint, Compaq, RCA, Microsoft and Verizon Wireless. Prior to joining RadioShack, Edmondson served for 12 years in a variety of sales and marketing roles for ADVO, Inc., the largest database and direct-marketing company in the nation. While there, he was a key executive responsible for developing comprehensive marketing programs for some of the nation's top retail brands. In 1996, Edmondson was recognized by Advertising Age as one of the Top 100 marketers in the United States. He is a board member of the internationally recognized Van Cliburn Foundation and the Women's Center in Fort Worth.
January 22, 2003 Dinner Meeting
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R. E D F O X Southern
Methodist University W.R.
Howell Director of the J.C. Penney Center for Retail
Assistant Professor of Marketing The Myth of Retail Customer Loyalty - Powerpoint Presentation
For many years the accepted wisdom has been that most shoppers are more or less loyal to their favorite stores. loyal stores. However, the expansion of retail selling space, together with the increasing variety (and blurring) of retail selling space, together with the increasing variety 2010 is only seven short years away, but the retail world in 2010 will be substantially different than today. Consumer targets, categories, channels of distribution, and companies will all undertake transformation. What does the future hold in store for regional malls, Internet marketing, globalization, and trading partner behavior? How will changes in the economy, consumer estate markets, marketing practices, and competitor dynamics affect your company's future?
Ed is the W.R. Howell Director of the J.C. Penney Center for Retail Excellence and Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He earned both a Doctorate and Master of Arts degree in marketing at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Ed also earned Master of Management and Master of Science in marketing communications degrees from Northwestern University, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Before coming to the Cox School, he was the Research Director of the Center for Retail Management and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg School of Management. Ed’s research and consulting work focus on retailing, consumer shopping behavior, category management, and marketing decision-making. Ed is also a second year member of the Retail Executives Association.
November 11, 2002 Dinner Meeting
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L L E N Q U E S T R O M J.C.
PENNEY
COMPANY, INC. Chairman
& Chief Executive Officer
J.C.Penney Turnaround: A Work in Progress For many years the accepted wisdom has been that most shoppers are more or less loyal to their favorite stores. loyal stores. However, the expansion of retail selling space, together with the increasing variety (and blurring) of retail selling space, together with the increasing variety 2010 is only seven short years away, but the retail world in 2010 will be substantially different than today. Consumer targets, categories, channels of distribution, and companies will all undertake transformation. What does the future hold in store for regional malls, Internet marketing, globalization, and trading partner behavior? How will changes in the economy, consumer estate markets, marketing practices, and competitor dynamics affect your company's future?
Ed is the W.R. Howell Director of the J.C. Penney Center for Retail Excellence and Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He earned both a Doctorate and Master of Arts degree in marketing at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Ed also earned Master of Management and Master
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