Totally 2017 Seminar
Programme Announced
From
Insight DIY's Steve Collinge, talking on digital retailing futures, to the
Hawley Collection Trust of Sheffield's Kellham Island Museum, the 2017 speaker
programme for Totally DIY & Tools covers wide-ranging subjects, offering
down-to-earth methods, inspiration and aspiration to DIY, homeware and hardware
retailers.
The
practical topics, ranging from Building Sales Growth through your People to
'how to' presentations on giving your business a good foothold in the digital
marketplace, will help to expand retailers' options for increasing local sales.
The full line-up is as follows:
Tuesday
14th February:
Revolution
& Evolution: Brave New Futures for Home Improvement Retailing,
by Steve Collinge, Managing Director of Insight Retail Group
Positive
Disruption: Connecting Digital Sales with Local Retailers,
by Nick Brackenbury, Co-Founder & CEO of NearSt
Branding
in the Digital Age: Creating& Maintaining a Visible Presence,
by Kate Newton, Managing Director of Brookes & Co
Making
the Most of Ironmongery, by Douglas
Masterson, Technical Manager of the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers
What's
new at Dulux:Product & Training Update,
by Vickie Mather, Dulux Academy Manager.
Wednesday
15th February
Building
Sales Growth through your People, by Anna
Britnor Guest, Director & Senior Learning Consultant, Phoenix Training
& Development
Controlling
Margin: the Benefits of Tighter Controls,
by Mark McArdle, Group Sales Director, Intact Software
The
Hawley Collection: Giving the Past a Future,
by Dr Simon Barley, Trustee, Ken Hawley Collection Trust, Kelham Island Museum,
Sheffield.
"We're
focussed on bringing our retailing visitors solid, business-building talks but
with an eye to the fast pace of change in local and national retailing as we
enter the digital age," says exhibition director Bill Butler of organisers
Brintex Events. "Independent retailers need all the help they can get from
our Totally Free seminars."
Totally
DIY & Tools takes place at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, from 14-15 February
2017. Registration is open on the Totally show website at. The show is
dedicated trade-only and again features the BHETA new product Innovation Zone.