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Insight NACS Future of International Convenience & Petroleum Retailing 2010

Insight Research will be hosting its annual international convenience store and petroleum retail industry event in association with NACS, the international association for convenience and petroleum retail, in London from September 20th to 24th this autumn.

This event is in its 12th year and was attended by retailers and supplier delegates from 20 countries in 2009. "Future of Convenience" brings the European industry together and offers convenience retailers and suppliers from around the world a unique look into best practices in the advanced European market.

This exclusive, highly interactive program combines presentations, case studies, panel discussions and visits to retail and petroleum formats as well as numerous networking opportunities which include our International Convenience Retailer of the Year award dinner at the Grand Connaught Rooms, 61-65 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5DA and a drinks reception on the London Eye. The event also provides opportunities for in-depth introductions to leading European convenience and petroleum retail operations through Insight's new peer review process.

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Dates at a glance

• Monday 20th September: study tours in either the UK or Ireland begin. UK group visit new energy efficient James Graven Budgen’s forecourt, SPAR BP forecourts and Tesco’s new "Zero Carbon" superstore. Dublin group visit new Topaz and new Applegreen forecourt formats, Superquinn and ADM Londis. Sponsored by Western Union.
• Tuesday 21st September: UK group visit latest Waitrose C-store, Tesco Express, Budgens and Co-operative Group sites. Dublin visits include Musgrave Centra and Applegreen’s first motorway service station/truck stop. International Convenience Retailer of the Year Award dinner at the Grand Connaught Rooms, 61-65 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5DA that evening.
• Wednesday 22nd September: Convenience conference/exhibition at British Library in London sponsored by Torex, chaired by Deborah Robinson. Includes: SPAR, Waitrose, Kantar, Applegreen, Mills Group. London Eye drinks reception that evening.
• Thursday 23rd September: Forecourt petroleum, equipment, technology conference/exhibition sponsored by Epta, chaired by Jon Arnold. Sheetz, Topaz, KSS, Woolworth’s SA, Rutter’s, CBX, Epta, Petrobras, him! Eurostar to Paris that evening.
• Friday 24th September: Study tours to latest French c-stores including Total’s new Bonjour "Boutique" format, Daily Monop and many other innovative Parisian stores.

FICR Programme - Speaker schedule 22nd September (PDF document)
FICR Programme - Speaker schedule 23rd September (PDF document)
FICR 4 page overview (PDF document)
FICR registration form (PDF document)

Stores we will be visiting on our study tour days

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