The 10th China Breakfast Industry Development Forum
Presentation: Good Morning! A Snapshot of Consumer Breakfast Behavior Trends
Location: Joyoung Creative Industrial Park, Hangzhou, China
Date: Sunday, April 22, 2018
Speaker: Danny Wang, Director, China Foodservice, The NPD Group
Overview: China Cuisine Association (CCA) is one of the largest foodservice professional groups in the market. There are dozens of events, forums, and seminars organized by CCA every year. We're coming up on the 10th Breakfast Industry Development Forum this year at Hangzhou, with top foodservice operators, manufacturers, and suppliers joining. Based on CCA’s statistics, around 300 participants will attend this event, with keynote speakers receiving a significant amount of media exposure. Danny Wang from NPD's China Foodservice team will present insights on consumer breakfast behavior trends across APAC countries.
Breakfast Seminar: Australia’s Top-Growing Products for 2018 and Favourite Snacks
Location: Hilton Sydney | Sydney, Australia
Date: Thursday, May 3 2018 | 7:30am AET
Overview: Explore trends and opportunities with NPD’s Australia foodservice industry experts, Leo Tan and Sanjev Kangatharan. Get our latest insights on this year’s top food and beverage trends and Australia’s favorite snacks.
FDRA’s Footwear Executive Summit 2018
Presentation: Rules for Revolutionaries: Lessons from the Sneaker Market
Location: Washington, DC
Date: Thursday, May 3 | 3:45pm EST
Speakers: Matt Powell, Vice President, Senior Industry Advisor – Sports, The NPD Group
Overview: A one-day summit for executives, directors, and managers. This year will feature keynotes and industry panels on how changing consumer demand is causing retail shifts, as well as politics and trade keynotes.
BookExpo 2018
Presentation: What’s Hot: Trends in Book Licensing
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 | 4:00pm – 4:50pm ET
Location: Jacob Javits Center, Location: 1E10 | New York, NY
Speaker: Allison Risbridger – Books Analyst, NPD Books | NPD Entertainment
Overview: Sales of licensed books comprised 12 percent of the overall market, and 28 percent of the children’s market in 2017, making it one of the hottest areas of the publishing to watch. Join NPD’s Allison Risbridger as she gives us a first look at the findings from NPD’s brand-new BookScan
License Reporting Service, which tracks the sales of more than 4,000 licenses across BookScan’s 16M unit sales per week. From the hottest licenses to the strongest categories, trends by market, publisher, license type and more, this will be an essential presentation for anyone looking to understand the basics of licensed publishing in today’s content-rich environment.
BookExpo 2018
Presentation: BookScan Data for Indie Retailers: Using BookScan Resources to Improve Your Business
Date:
Thursday, May 31, 2018 | 4:45pm – 5:35pm ET
Location: Jacob Javits Center, Location: 1E10 | New York, NY
Speaker: David Walter – Executive Director, Client Development, NPD Books | NPD Entertainment
Overview: Indie booksellers have proven themselves remarkably resilient in today’s quickly evolving retail environment and one of the key skills for staying that way is using all available resources to get a competitive edge. If you are a BookScan reporting store, did you know you are entitled to weekly bestseller lists for titles sold in your market across all retailers including Amazon? Did you know that bestsellers for the top 100 markets vary wildly from the national bestseller list? You could be missing out on critical information to increase your sell-through right now. Come to this workshop with and we’ll teach you how to get and use these lists to build your business. This practical workshop is designed for indie retailers who already report to BookScan, as well as prospective retailers in the trade book and comic/graphic novel spaces who want to understand the practical benefits that BookScan reporting can provide. Presented in conjunction with the American Booksellers Association (ABA).
BookExpo 2018
Presentation: The State of the Publishing Industry Today
Date:
Thursday, May 31, 2018 | 1:00pm – 1:50pm ET
Location: Jacob Javits Center, Location: 1E16 | New York, NY,
Speaker: Jonathan Stolper – President, NPD Books | NPD Entertainment
Overview: Join Jonathan Stolper, the President of NPD Books, as he breaks down the latest outlook for the U.S. book market. Drawing on data from NPD’s BookScan, PubTrack, and Books & Consumer platforms, this presentation will deliver essential insights into the latest trends from book publishing’s most authoritative source of industry information, including:
- A recap of key industry performance in 2017/2018
- The significant trends in content and platform
- The outlook for digital versus print in the next few years
- The opportunities (and risks) for publishers and retailers in 2018 and beyond
BookExpo 2018
Presentation: The Future of Retail: the Outlook for Books in a Difficult Landscape
Date:
Thursday, May 31, 2018 | 2:00pm – 2:50pm ET
Location: Jacob Javits Center, Location: 1E16 | New York, NY
Speaker: Kristen McLean – Executive Director, Business Development, NPD Books | NPD Entertainment
Overview: You have probably seen the headlines—the Retail Apocalypse is upon us, consumers are abandoning bricks-and-mortar shopping, and the future of discretionary spending is bleak. But what is the truth behind these difficult headlines, and are there any opportunities hiding under all of this doom and gloom? Come join NPD’s Kristen McLean, one of the industry’s favorite thought leaders, as she leverages The NPD Group’s work in more than twenty industries to give attendees a data-driven view of what’s really going on in retail, including changes in consumer spending habits, the types of retail that are working and not working, and what all of this has to say about the future of bookselling in the US.