GEC NEWS WIRESets new record with 6000-plus pre-scheduled one-on-one delegate meetings
DISTREE EMEA has announced that more than 6000 pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings have been set up for the four-day channel event, which begins at the Fairmont Hotel in Monaco. Thousands more meetings will be scheduled at the event, with more than 1000 delegates making full use of the on-site DISTREE Matching Squad to facilitate extra one-on-ones.
Farouk Hemraj, CEO and Co-Founder at DISTREE Events, said, “DISTREE EMEA is all about making profitable channel connections, uniting vendors with senior executives from distributors, retailers and e-tailers in one place at one time, accelerating business development for all delegates.”
This year’s event gathers 350 senior distribution executives from 290 different companies, plus 130 senior buyers from 110 of Europe’s top technology and CE retailers and e-tailers. The delegate base includes distributors from 65 countries in EMEA and retailers from 32 countries. During the next few days they will hold thousands of pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with 400-plus vendor executives, representing more than 150 separate brands.
DISTREE EMEA 2014 is supported by Platinum Sponsor Modecom, Gold Sponsors HGST, Lenovo and Manhattan-Intellinet, plus Silver Sponsors Delta Electronics-Innergie, Energy Sistem and Strontium. This year’s Event Partners include GfK and Visit Monaco, with Lenovo and Lexmark serving as Technical Partners.
DISTREE EMEA’s packed conference programme includes a Wearable Technologies (WT) & Connected Devices Channel Summit hosted by RED-DOLPHIN, featuring exclusive content from Beecham Research and GfK. This year’s agenda also features the inaugural Retail-to Business (R2B) Summit hosted by CONTEXT, with an opening address from Regis Schultz, CEO at retailer Darty.
DISTREE EMEA 2014 is taking place in Monaco from February 11-14th, attracting senior buyers and executives from the leading e-tailers, retailers and distributors across Europe, Middle East & Africa. More than 150 brands are registered to participate, using the event as a platform to manage, build or launch channels in EMEA.
