
This year’s meeting celebrates the 75th anniversary of NACDS and will be held April 26-30, 2008, at the Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. Attendees will return to the spectacular venue to share insights, forge relationships, and explore future opportunities.
The meeting will give attendees the chance to come together with more than 2,200 of today's most influential retail executives from drug, food, and mass merchandising and their supplier partners. Long regarded as our industry's most prestigious meeting, the Annual Meeting will give you and your company a unique opportunity to gain new insights into today's changing marketplace and set your course for the future.
Exciting Format
Our 2008 meeting will offer an exciting format that enables NACDS members to strengthen relationships, discuss strategic issues, and identify enhanced business prospects.
The meeting will provide numerous opportunities to meet and exchange ideas with key trading partners. Appointments, traditionally made in advance of your arrival, set the stage for profitable business initiatives implemented in part through future opportunities at NACDS events such as the Marketplace Conference in June and the Pharmacy & Technology Conference in August.
Key Participants
Participants at the Annual Meetings include Retail Chairmen, CEOs, Presidents, and Senior Vice Presidents of Marketing, Merchandising, Operations, and Pharmacy and their executive-level counterparts and decision makers from supplier companies.
Business Appointment Policies
The Annual Meeting is strategically focused and adheres to a non-commercial format. No displays or exhibits are permitted. NACDS prohibits the scheduling of business or social functions during official conference events. Please contact the NACDS Member Programs and Services Department if you have any questions concerning these policies.
Who Should Attend?
Retail members participating in this meeting will include Chairmen, CEOs, Presidents and Senior Vice Presidents of Marketing, Merchandising, Operations, and Pharmacy. Participating from supplier member companies will be executive-level counterparts and decision- makers.