Tuesday, August 14 2007

Conference Blogging

It's a busy month at Casa Winexpert. August 13th was our Western Retailer Conference, held in (sunny!) Pitt Meadows BC at the beautiful Meadow-Gardens. This annual gathering for Winexpert and it's retail partners is always a great event. Not only do I get to see old friends (some of whom I've known for 15 years now) I get to stay in touch with our network of Western retailers, find out what's on their minds and catch up on gossip and shenannigans.

This year we had a great speaker in, Kevin Graff of the Graff Retail Group. His talk on retail excellence was informative and dynamic--plenty of good information and motivation to charge up everyone to make their stores better. We also announced new wines: our Estate Series Crushendo South Australian Single-Vineyard Shiraz and one other, slightly secret varietal that everyone went cuckoo-bananas over.

Of course, while I was busy all day meeting with folks and answering questions and making plans, it's not really all work and no play--my annual golf game is tomorrow, with a couple of my chums from Winnipeg, and our ever-intrepid resident leprechaun.

Next, it's off to beautiful Mississauga for our Ontario/Atlantic conference on the 18th, and then onto (I can hardly wait) Quebec City for our Quebec conference. I'll report from there as time permits.

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Posted by Tim AT 11:39PM

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