Retailers Association of India (rai) in association with NASSCOM is organizing it's 6th Annual Retail Technology Conclave (ReTechCon 2010) on 13-14 May 2010 at ITC Royal Gardenia, Bangalore.

ReTechCon has emerged as the most widely respected and well attended forum in the Indian retail industry. Organised annually since 2005, the conference has become a platform for the retailers and technology solution providers to share their experience and concerns, as well as learn from International Retailers and solution providers.

ReTechCon 2010 will feature only the best, most innovative companies showcasing real solutions to today's most pressing IT issues in Retail. This year's theme, "Leveraging Technology - IT & Retail, Partners in Progress", will have thought leaders demonstrate how IT can help retailers to leverage business efficiency using technology.

Over 200 delegates have registered on line from 80 retail companies from across the country. Seats fast filling up – hurry & enrol your delegates. ReTechCon 2010 has 20 Technology Knowledge Partners supporting the event.

Retailers Association of India (rai) brings to you its most popular two-day seminar on Excellence in Store Operations (ESOps) to be held on the 19-20 May 2010 at Welingkar Institute of Management, Matunga, Mumbai. This Programme focuses on the means of achieving great retail performance by enhancing store productivity and profitability.

ESOps is a learning platform for Store Managers, Retail Professionals and Store Owners who desire to imbibe and adopt proven best practices.

The delegates will get an opportunity to understand and gain knowledge through presentations given by some of the leading thinkers and finest speakers from the retail industry.

The seminar offers a unique blend of high-end customized training solutions. Our learning solutions can help ensure Store Managers, Retail Professionals and Store Owners to adopt new strategies and tactics quickly and effectively so that corporate goals are achieved.

Key Sessions:

Retail film shows will also form part of this educative seminar

Participants will have a rewarding experience along with the opportunity to interact with the faculty.

Registration Fee for Seminar: Rs. 4000/*- only

Special Fee for rai Members: Rs. 3000/*- only

Full Time Students: Rs. 2000/*- only
*plus applicable service tax

Cheque or DD to be drawn in favour of "Retailers Association Of India" payable at Mumbai.

For further details contact
Lawrence Fernandes, Director - Retail Learning on 09029089915
email at lawrence@rai.net.in

Click here to download the registration form

The RAI - IGDS Executive Seminar provides a participant with the tools and skills for building a winning market strategy and effectively monitoring the same. The programme is especially important to all modern retailers since it teaches participants various techniques to monitor performance of three key resources in retail viz, space, people and merchandise. Merchandising heads, Operations Heads, Heads of Marketing, Finance, IT, HRM and MIS managers may attend this Executive Seminar.

The participation to this Executive Seminar would be restricted to 40 participants. Of this 25 seats are already by IGDS members from across the world. The balance 15 seats have been reserved for RAI members which would be available on a first-cum-first served basis.

You may please send in your nominations by filling up the registration form and mailing the same to the RAI address mentioned in the Brochure or to Jrene.Jost@igds.org

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For further details contact:
Lawrence Fernandes, Director - Retail Learning, Mobile: +91 9029089915, Email: lawrence@rai.net.in

Retailers Association of India (RAI) in association with Deloitte, conducted the 'Best Practices Survey' developed specially for RAI member firms. The service offering wasdeveloped keeping in mind the current and future needs of the retail industry. It will help RAI member firms to have access to the stereotypical and best practices prevalent in this comparatively nascent industry. The innovative yet simple survey reports will provide critical inputs to make crucial decisions in the areas of Culture, Organization Design, Performance Management System, Variable Pay & Talent Management.

The survey will be repeated periodically to update the data and review the impact of the interventions undertaken.

For further details contact:
Lawrence Fernandes, Director - Retail Learning, Mobile: +91 9029089915, Email: lawrence@rai.net.in

Retailers Association of India & Indira Gandhi National Open University offer three years BBA in Retailing - An opportunity to help the right people grow!

RAI-IGNOU`s 'BBA in Retailing' is a unique programme with University-Industry collaboration. The Programme has been developed by key retail industry experts and academicians. The duration of the structured course is three years and it includes on the job training (internship) in the first year. This is the opportunity to those who are already employed with 10+2 qualifications in your retail organization to enhance their qualification along with upgrading their skills.

The course will start from first week of July 2010 & we invite you to participate in this programme by enrolling your employees as sponsored candidates. The sponsored candidate will continue to work on the retail floors as directed by you and in the areas as assigned by your organization. During this period he/she will be writing his/her workbook and reporting to the supervisor as assigned by you.

Please find below the link to a concept note on the programme and a weblink to download the prospectus and application form. You may please send in your requirements latest by 15th May 2010.

We are sure that you will not miss this unique opportunity to engage associates and help them learn too!

For further details contact:
Lawrence Fernandes, Director - Retail Learning, Mobile: +91 9029089915, Email: lawrence@rai.net.in
D. Joice Smiling, Regional Director - Southern Region, Mobile: +91 9360382852, Email: smiling@rai.net.in

Retailers Association of India (rai) had entered into an exclusive joint venture with Timesjobs.com, one of the leading job portals in India. As part of this alliance, RAI & TimesJobs.com have launched http://rai.timesjobs.com, the recruitment portal specifically for the retail industry. The objective of this portal is to make sure both employers and jobseekers from the retail sector can fulfill their recruitment needs in the most cost and time efficient way.

RAI's involvement in this portal has ensured that rai.timesjobs.com is a recruitment solution built by and for the Retail Industry while leveraging TimesJobs.com's e-recruitment expertise.

More than 40 leading retailers have signed up since the inception and those wishing to sign-in, kindly do so at the earliest at the special rates. Please contact Lawrence Fernandes on 09029089915, lawrence@rai.net.in