Suchada Ithijarukul, Chief Executive Officer, Siam Makro Public Co., Ltd., revealed that the 3rd Retailer Expo has been scheduled to be held during 16-19 September 2010 between 10.00-19.00 hrs. at Exhibition Hall 1 and 2, IMPACT Center, Muang Thong Thani. The other important objectives of this expo are to make the new generation aware of importance of the traditional retailers which is the symbol of Thai culture; to develop family retailers’ business for their sustainable growth by recommending guidelines to make more income for their retailing shops and to open opportunities for business owners and product manufactures to exchange ideas on business operations as well as to jointly define directions of Thai retailers in the future. The budget to organize the event is 25 million baht. This event would attract 60,000 owners of retailers, small retailers and the interested persons. For the first two days, the target visitors are owners of retailers and small retailers. On the other hand, the last two days will target interested persons.
“The arrangement of the 3rd Retailer Expo is one of the important activities of “Makro Retailer Alliance (MRA) Project” that Makro is strongly committed and invests a lot of co-operations and ideas to create concepts on expo arrangement so that Thai retailers can be developed and gained much new knowledge on retailing management. Makro strongly hopes that various activities conducted in this expo will be full of benefits and new ideas to help the shop owners and the participants in this expo to adapt to their business and also hopes that it can create inspiration to general people who are looking for new business opportunity”, added Suchada.
Aree Wongrassamee, Director of Commercial Dry Food, Siam Makro Public Co.,Ltd., who is the chief of organizing committee for the 3rd Retailer Expo noted The exhibition area of the 3rd Retailer Expo is 8,000 square meters and the 3 main parts of the expo are as follows