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Get in the game
The focus of the 2013 CGA Strategic Conference is to explore the game changing movements impacting the California food industry. Learn about the customer shifts taking hold and their affect on California’s diversity of retailers.
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Plot your next move
The CGA Strategic Conference’s one-of-a-kind, pre-scheduled business meetings offer retailers and suppliers the opportunity to refine strategies for the upcoming year and build business with your most important partners.
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Meet the players
The CGA Strategic Conference is the one event that brings together California’s top grocery industry executives for productive business meetings, insightful educational sessions and nightly networking events.
Meet California’s Top Retailers
Think Two Moves Ahead…
California’s competitive grocery marketplace is experiencing evolutionary changes. These changes – some subtle, some more disruptive – are transforming the way the retailing game is played.
Robust demographic movements, emerging technologies and fragmented shopping options are rewriting the rules of the game. The core customers of the Baby Boom Generation continue to influence strategies, however the new customer, Millennials, are dictating different moves for players that want to win. Constantly conversational, loyally agile and lifestyle conscious, this new breed of grocery shopper requires game changing approaches that are personal, transparent and uniquely relevant.
Plot your next move. Join the retailers of the Golden State and discover ways to capture the new consumer with breakout strategies and collaborative partnerships that will grow your business in this new environment.
Why Attend
For attendees, the 2013 CGA Strategic Conference is one of the most productive business events you will experience. The agenda is packed with an uncompromising blend of break-through educational sessions insightful educational sessions that take dead aim at the trends impacting the grocery industry in California, outstanding networking opportunities and hundreds of pre-scheduled business meetings. Learn More
Illuminators
Many thanks to The Illuminators for their continued, generous support of the CGA Strategic Conference and for providing the outstanding conference meal functions and contributing to the entertaining social events. Learn More
California Grocers
CGA is a non-profit, statewide trade association representing over 300 retail members operating more than 6,000 food stores in California and Nevada, and approximately 150 grocery supplier companies. Learn More
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