A live event on the “Repatriation of the Canadian Consumer” will be held next week, and it includes a serious lineup of senior retail buyers and experts. Hosted by the Canadian Home Products Trade Association, the symposium is being sponsored by Global Furniture.
One panel, called “Canadian Retailers and the Buy Canadian Movement,” will feature five Canadian retail professionals representing hardware and LBM, housewares, and office products, and include representatives from Canadian Tire and TIMBER MART.
Hardlines’ own Michael McLarney will moderate a multi-faceted and insightful discussion on how retailers’ businesses are affected by a consumer-driven Buy Canadian movement. Panelists will give first-person accounts on how customers are buying from retailers of different sizes across different category verticals. Retail data experts will provide an in-depth analysis on the growing rise of “patriotic purchasing.”
The CHPTA symposium promises to be both enlightening and insightful. It’s being held May 6 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. EST at the headquarters of Global Furniture, 1350 Flint Road, Toronto. (Click here now to register!)
