Connecting Northwest Arkansas is a unique information provider for the greater Wal-Mart community. In a market with a seemingly endless availability of information about the nation’s largest retailer, Connecting Northwest Arkansas concentrates on the specific issues, trends and developments that are most relevant to Wal-Mart, its 60,000 suppliers and the wide range of companies that provide goods and services to this supplier community.  Always with an eye toward enhancing the business relationship between Wal-Mart and its trading partners, Connecting Northwest Arkansas delivers timely news and analysis about and for this rapidly growing retail community.  Published six times annually, and daily online, Connecting Northwest Arkansas is an affiliate of Retailing Today, the industry’s leading broadline retail publication founded in 1962 by parent company Lebhar-Friedman.

JUNE

June 17-18: BBV Chamber of Commerce Walstreet member pairing and annual golf tournament
Contact: Tammy Thurow at (479) 273-2842

June 23-25: The Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit, London. Guest speaker: former ASDA president and CEO Andy Bond.
www.TCGFSummit.com

June 24-25: University of Florida's David F. Miller Center for Retailing Education & Research Retailing Smarter Symposium, Orlando, Fla.
Warrington.ufl.edu/mkt/retailcenter/

June 24-26: 17th annual Cancer Challenge
CancerChallenge.com

June 24-26: National Retail Federation Loss Prevention & Expo, Atlanta
NRF.com/lp10