Today I am excited to announce the next presentation for the 2020 edition of Velocity Global: the My Private Brand VIRTUAL conference taking place August 4-5, 2020, and on-demand to all registrants 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the next 365 days. Dan Fairbanks, GMM, Corporate Foods, and Global Private Label, PriceSmart and Maria, Dubuc, President, MBD will present:
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A look inside California based PriceSmart, Inc., its unique Hispanic customer, private brand growth, and marketing. This retailer is the largest operator of membership warehouse clubs in Central America and the Caribbean. The retailer operates 45 warehouse clubs in 12 countries and one U.S. territory: seven each in Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama; five in Dominican Republic; four in Trinidad and Guatemala three in Honduras; two each in El Salvador and Nicaragua; and one each in Aruba, Barbados, Jamaica, and the United States Virgin Islands.
Dan Fairbanks is the GMM, Corporate Foods, and Global Private Label California based Central America and Caribbean membership warehouse club PriceSmart. Dan is responsible for developing and executing the retailers’ global Private Label strategy, driving innovation, and leading product development across all 13 countries which PriceSmart operates.
Dan led Tesco owned Fresh & Easy’s largest commercial business unit, Dairy/Deli and Refrigerated Foods where he oversaw all aspects of buying & merchandising, including strategic planning, category management, supplier relations, and Private Label development.
Before joining Fresh & Easy, Dan served as the VP of Retail Client Solutions for IRI, where he delivered business and consumer insights to retail partners.
He spent more than a decade at Pleasanton California based grocer Safeway where he progressed from Food Clerk in Redmond, Washington to Category Director of Non-Perishables at the corporate headquarters in Pleasanton, CA.
Dan holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from San Diego State University.
Maria Dubuc: Marketing By Design, PresidentBig Red Rooster, Vice President
A 25-year pioneer in creative management, Maria’s key talent is to combine a career’s worth of branding experience into something personal and unique for each and every client. In the Private Label space, she has coordinated both new and rebrand programs for a diverse set of retailers including Wild Oats, Smart & Final, Sprouts, The Home Depot, WinCo Foods, PriceSmart and most recently 7-11 and Natural Grocers.
With SKU counts from 1,000 to in excess of 10,000 annually, Maria focuses on the scalability of design and the execution of SKUs driven by the efficiency of commonality and consistency. Under Maria’s guidance, her team developed Workflow by Design, a proprietary workflow management program that allows large enterprises to initiate, track, and approve projects.
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[/et_pb_cta][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.6″ custom_padding=”20px|20px|20px|20px|false|false” link_option_url=”https://velocity.pathable.co/” link_option_url_new_window=”on” border_radii=”on|2px|2px|2px|2px” border_width_all=”2px” border_color_all=”#c1bfbf” global_module=”71154″ saved_tabs=”all”]Velocity Global: the My Private Brand VIRTUAL Conference is a 2-day curated virtual event focused exclusively on retailer-owned brands. Our goal is to bring together the brightest minds in private brand from around the world to give talks that provoke conversations that matter. Our exciting virtual platform will present unmatched opportunities for networking and business development.
August 4-5, 2020, on-demand to all registrants 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the next 365 days.
TICKETS: Standard $495 USD, Early Bird $395 USD, Retailer $95 USD
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