2009 Annual Meeting
          
Conference Overview

More than 2,200 of today's most influential retail executives from drug, food, and mass merchandising and their supplier partners will return to The Breakers in Palm Beach to share insights, forge relationships, and explore future opportunities. 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
The Annual Meeting offers an exciting format that provides numerous opportunities to meet and exchange ideas with key trading partners and enables NACDS members to strengthen relationships, discuss strategic issues, and identify enhanced business prospects.

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.