This year's IGIA Convention is offering a NEW! Harold Lloyd Supermarket SMARTS 201 course.
Supermarket SMARTS 201 features four, two-hour, mini seminars. Participants may choose to attend two of the following four options:
1. In Search of Freshness
2. Holy Donuts, Batman! Two Dozen Ways to Raise Sales That Don’t Cost a Lot of Dough
3. How Magnetic is Your Store? The Craveability Factor
4. It’s 6 p.m. Who’s Minding Your Store?
Each session will be two hours in length with time for group discussion. All participants will end the day with at least five fabulous ideas to build their sales and grow their businesses. Guaranteed!
Add on Supermarket SMARTS 201! by June 15, 2012, $79
Those of you who have already registered for or plan to register for the entire conference may add Harold Lloyd’s Supermarket SMARTS 201 to your conference experience for $79 if you sign up by June 15, 2012. After that date, the cost will be $99.
NEW! Convention EXPRESS Option, $199
Also new this year is an abbreviated conference experience. This option is for those who absolutely cannot attend the entire convention. IGIA is offering a NEW Convention EXPRESS, one-day-only option, which includes the morning session with Harold Lloyd, Supermarket SMARTS 201, and Tuesday evening dinner and activities for $199.
Contact IGIA’s Peggy Sellner, 515.270.2628 or psellner@iowagrocers.com for more information or to register for the Convention EXPRESS.
New E-Scanner: Big Splash or Swimming in Circles?
As I dive into my fourth week working for the Iowa Grocery Industry Association, I pause to consider whether I’m swimming in the right direction. In my first couple of weeks, I’ve attempted small improvements to the electronic publication, E-Scanner. It now sports a new look and organization that I hope will save you time in finding the information the matters most to you. Each week, we scour a myriad of news sources to bring you the stories of greatest relevance to the grocery industry.
New E-Scanner categories are designed to help you spend less time wading through what doesn’t interest you and find what you’re looking for, faster.
In addition to a new font, layout and color blocks that should make the news stories easier to read, the E-Scanner is now being released weekly so the news you receive is more timely.
Please consider taking a minute to check out the new
E-Scanner, let me know what you think of the changes and share any ideas you have for continued improvement. Send your news to include. Tell me what other types of information you’d like to see. Leave your ideas here on the blog, call Ann Seuferer, 515.270.2628 or email anns@iowagrocers.com.
Good or bad, your comments will ensure I’m swimming in the right direction so that I can serve you better.
Tell me what you think: Is the new E-Scanner a Big Splash or Swimming in Circles?
From left to right: Ed Whitver, Michelle Hurd, Brenda Neville and David Duncan.
ISAE President Ed Whitver (L) with the Iowa Medical Society and ISAE Past President David Duncan presented Michelle Hurd and Brenda Neville with Association Executives of the Year awards at the association's annual conference.
IGIA’s Own, Michelle Hurd, Named Staff Professional of the Year!
Michelle Hurd, IGIA’s Vice President of Membership and Marketing was recently named the Association Staff Professional of the Year by the Iowa Society of Association Executives.
Michelle was presented with the award at annual luncheon meeting at the newly remodeled Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center at Veteran’s Memorial for her 14-year track record in working with associations in Des Moines and for her outstanding work representing the 300 members of IGIA.
The award is presented annually to association leaders in Iowa who have demonstrated outstanding leadership within their organizations and have been involved in a leadership role within the community.
The Iowa Society of Association Executives is a statewide association comprised of nearly 300 individuals employed in the association profession in Iowa.
Extend Michelle your congratulations, here!
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