Progress Retail to Join the Independent Retailer Conference at ASD Market Week

Denver, CO (July 25, 2018) – The Independent Retailer Conference is excited to welcome Progress Retail to their upcoming conference that will take place at ASD Market Week July 29 – August 1, 2018 in Las Vegas. Progress Retail’s mission is to enable every member of a retail organization to connect deeply with themselves, their career, company, and customers. This emphasis on the human being on the shop floor and their corresponding life skills translates to better service and customer connections.

Joining Progress Retail at the the Independent Retailer Conference will be eBay, Seller Active, Springboard Retail, Workful, Refund Retriever, Social Edge, RETAILMavens, Star Micronics and Colder Ice Media. Held twice a year on-site at ASD Market Week, the Independent Retailer Conference welcomes industry experts such as Progress Retail to deliver educational experiences to ASD’s over 40,000+ attendees. Bringing the world’s widest variety of merchandise together in one efficient consumer-goods trade show, ASD Market Week offers quality choices at every price point for a variety of retail sectors. Attendees benefit from discovering new suppliers, new product categories and new ways to profit thanks to the combined efforts of the Independent Retailer Conference and ASD Market Week.

We’re thrilled to be partnering with the Independent Retailer Conference this year, and are looking forward to meeting with passionate retailers and delegates over the course of the few days,” shares Ray Riley of Progress Retail. Expanding on this is Terry Hawkins of Progress Retail who states, “there is nothing more inspiring than surrounding yourself with passionate, like-minded people, and the Independent Retailer Conference offers a brilliant platform for that!” 

To discover the full line up of educational sessions to be held at the Independent Retailer Conference at ASD Market Week, click here.

About Independent Retailer Conference

The Independent Retailer Conference is the nation’s only retail conference dedicated entirely to the unique lifestyle and responsibilities of independent store owners. Founded by industry veterans Nicole Leinbach Reyhle of Retail Minded & Kerry Bannigan of Nolcha, the Independent Retailer Conference offers independent retailers the chance to engage, learn, and connect with industry leaders while also getting inspired from retail experts, service providers and like-minded retailers from across the nation.

About Progress Retail

Progress Retail has pioneered human-centered, live in-person retail sales education for over twenty-five years. Global organizations such as Luxottica, Nordstrom, Volcom, and Crabtree & Evelyn have experienced the depth and profound impact of Progress Retail’s front-line retail selling system, C.A.R.E. Customers Are Really Everything®. Progress Retail’s mission is to enable every member of a retail organization to connect deeply with themselves, their career, company, and customers. This emphasis on the human being on the shop floor and their corresponding life skills translates to better service and customer connections. In early 2017, Progress Retail restructured and pivoted business models by launching its proprietary learning management system loaded with high-quality retail training and brand content. This solution has further developed into a full-fledged retail e-learning platform that fundamentally makes retail sales and operations easier, closing the chasm between a retail support center and the retail front-line. After all, in today’s physical retail, there’s no more room to hide.

About ASD Market Week

ASD Market Week is a part of Emerald Expositions and based in Los Angeles, CA. ASD Market Week brings together 40,000+ attendees and 2,800 sellers in the wholesale merchandise industry. The events take place bi‐annually in March and August in Las Vegas and are the 15th and 17th largest expos in the U.S., respectively, covering over 700,000 sq/ft of exhibit space. ASD also produces regional events in New York City and Miami in the fall, which caters to the general merchandise retailers in the tri‐state New York and Florida and Caribbean area.

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