Stagnito's Top Gun Executive Food & Beverage Forum - 10/11/06 - 10/13/06

Stagnito’s Top Gun Executive Food & Beverage Forum is an annual  leadership forum for the food and beverage industries sponsored by Stagnito Communications, the leader in food & beverage packaged good trade publications. 

This year’s leadership forum faculty included representatives from a broad range of industry categories from dairy, confections, brewers, pasta manufacturers, online retailers, brick & mortar retailers, and strategic consultants. 

A broad range of important topics were covered from managing positive change and business intelligence to keep you ahead of the curve, to recovery & restructuring, and leveraging success in new markets. 

• Giant Eagle, the PA-based regional grocery and convenience store chain, is launching an exciting division called Giant Eagle Market District, a new, upscale, Euro-style store concept.  This is not just another upscale makeover of a tired brand.  Giant Eagle has combined an exhaustive on-location examination of cutting-edge European food stores with extensive research and consumer study in the US to craft a totally new retail concept for Giant Eagle. 

• Leaders from Coke, Campbell Soup and Anheuser-Busch shared their secrets of product launch success.

• Steve Michaelson, President of Fresh Direct gave us his perspective on A Fresh Approach to online profits through the success story of Fresh Direct the nation’s leading online fresh-food manufacturing and online delivery service.