TPF - ECR Extra June 2014

The major Australasian FMCG retailers have highlighted Loss Prevention as a critical focus area for 2014/15 within their businesses. Loss prevention absolutely has the attention of ‘C Suite’ executives within the retailers and must in turn be high on the agenda for those companies partnering in business with retailers. Efficient Consumer Response Australasia (ECRA) is supporting collaborative discussion through delivering thought leadership seminars entitled “Sell More, Lose Less: Staying Ahead of the Game”.

The Seminar, being replicated in Melbourne on 5 August and Sydney on 7 August, will bring retailers and suppliers together to explore and advance the critical issue of minimising loss through shrinkage and protecting product and profit value in an era of new technologies throughout the shared (retailer and supplier) value chain, and in doing so provide a catalyst to new and more broad reaching collaborative engagement between trading partners.

ECRA is delighted that globally recognised Retail Loss Prevention expert Professor Adrian Beck, Head of the Department of Criminology, University of Leicester (UK) will again be engaged as chief facilitator and presenter for the 2014 seminars. Adrian will draw on current and recent global loss prevention projects he has been overseeing when providing insight to delegates.

This is a rare opportunity for an Australasian audience to hear first had from an expert of Adrian’s calibre and experience on topics including:

The Future of Loss Prevention: Prospects, Problems and Practicalities
Anticipating the Impact of Mobile Technologies on Retail Losses
Benchmarking your business on Loss Management

In addition, executives from Woolworths and Coles will articulate their businesses key focus points and directions for 2014 and beyond in the area of Loss Prevention through their value chains and how they intend to collaborate with their supplier base, and Myer’s General Manager, Wendy Marshall, will take delegates on Myer’s Loss Prevention journey, providing delegates with valuable insight as to the process one of Australia’s foremost retailers has taken to managing the issue of optimising sales whilst minimising loss.

Register quickly - low costs and limited numbers!

ECRA Events are run by ‘industry for industry’ and as such registration costs have been kept very low at $195 per person or $175 per person for groups of 5 of more. Numbers will be limited at each event and a first in first served basis will apply to registrations.

For Program, Registration and Speaker details, please click here.

ECRA thanks the following sponsors for their generosity in supporting these seminars: