The Garden Centre Association ’s ( GCA ) annual league in January will start with a Retail Safari in London led by a Retail Futurist whose clients have included Marks & Spencer ( November 2024).The Safari represents the launch effect for the 2025 Conference , which necessitate plaza at De Vere Wokefield Estate , Reading , from January 26 until 29 .
GCA Chairman - Elect , Ben Harrison , from Haskins Garden Centres , who helped organize the day , say : " We ’re quetch off our 2025 consequence on Sunday , January 26 , with a Retail Safari in the capital led by retail expert , Matthew Brown . Matthew is the father and theater director of a retail trend agency call Echochamber and has drop the past 25 years travelling the world seek out example of great retail , emerging movement and advanced ideas . He runs retail safaris in the world ’s best shopping cities to inform and inspire and is a veritable keynote speaker system at retail conferences worldwide . Matthew will help oneself our member who attend , navigate the buzzing dominion of London to give them a clear picture of what the best retail looks like . "
GCA Chairman - elect Ben Harrison
Ben continued : " He has run Retail Safaris around the world for more than 20 years and they ’re a great mode to get your team together for a physical trip-up to see and be instigate by all the initiation that ’s happening on the ground . After a trends demonstration in cardinal London , he will take us on a fascinating tour of various retail venues . We will then receive back at Battersea Power Station for drink and nibble . "
Matthew Brown from Echochamber who is running the London Retail Safari launch case for the 2025 league
" We will have a coach admit delegate from the hotel in the first light , leave the hotel at 8.45 am , who will be available for those meeting in London to lodge their baggage at the starting of the day . At approximately 7.30 pm guests will be taken back to the De Vere Wokefield Estate via a 50 - seater lavishness coach , " he reason out .
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