Over 50 representatives from Glazer’s, Southern Wine & Spirits, Standard Beverage, The Charmer-Sunbelt Group, Diageo, Constellation Brands, Brown-Foreman, the Wine Institute, NABCA, the National Beer Wholesalers Association, DISCUS, Gallo, and other alcohol beverage industry organizations came together at the annual ABI EC “Conference within a Conference” at U Connect.
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Ann Dozier,
Coca-Cola |
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ABI EC produced sessions included presentations from the Global Commerce Initiative’s Direct Store Delivery Work Group, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an alcohol industry group piloting data synchronization, and information concerning the increased use of consumer promotions in the alcohol beverage category. This year’s Conference also featured the popular ABI EC sponsored lunch, which promotes networking opportunities among alcohol industry attendees and retailers from the grocery, drug, mass and government channels. Among the 70 lunch attendees were AAFES, DECA, Duane-Reade, Food Lion, Giant Eagle, Harris-Teeter, SUPERVALU, United Grocers, Walgreens, and Wegmans. |
| Almost 1,300 supply chain professionals attended the 2006 GS1 US U Connect Conference® in Nashville, Tennessee. The 2007 Conference is scheduled for June 5th to 7th in Orlando, Florida and the ABI EC Council plans to offer another group of informative and interesting sessions to educate the industry on standards and how they can help facilitate the use of e-commerce to improve our industry’s supply chain. |
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Greg Zwanziger,
SUPERVALU
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