OREANDA-NEWS. 3PL-operator UVK provided its partner's support for the Retail Industry Forum 2013 conference – a major event in the Ukrainian retail chain sector, which has proven a most effective platform uniting top-managers, owners and key division specialists from retailers of all formats (FMCG, fashion, DIY, electronics etc.), operating in Ukraine and abroad. The conference takes place at the Opear hotel in Kiev on April 24th

The major goal of the forum is to seek for optimizing business solutions increasing the retailers' profit margins and to discuss the market trends and obstacles arising in the context of the retail management and development in the present-day realities

While preparing the 9th International Retail Industry Forum 2013 Meeting Point company has considered all wishes and feedbacks from repeated participants of the earlier events and is consecutively creating a unique format to be the most effective in assuring the primary needs a modern and actively developing retail chain may have

Among the issues have been discussed at the forum were:

• Investment attractiveness of Ukraine's retail sector

• Economic factors influencing development and management of the retail

• Is a devaluation of the national currency a jeopardy for the Ukrainian retail?

• Retail top-managers' valuations: what is the competition in the Ukrainian retail sector now and which competitive advantages are currently employed to retain a leadership?

• Expansion strategies: what are the challenges and obstacles? What kind of trading areas do the retailers lack now?

• Consumers' expectations from a modern trade? What are the retail chains doing to meet such expectations?

• Pricing battles in the retail sector: is there an advantage in price dumping in favor of attracting more consumers in the circumstances of the decreasing buying capabilities?

• Analysis of the most successful positioning strategies: who earns the most and how?

• Retail top-managers' judgements: which marketing instruments are worth being invested in, and which are not

• Online trade: risks and opportunities for the traditional retail

• A theft in retail: how big the problem is in Ukraine, and how the leading chains cope with that

• Key challenges in recruitment and management of HR in outlets, and how they impact a retailer's profit margin