What’s Next?
Are you looking for innovative ways to ensure the current and future success of your business? Are you looking for answers to those challenging questions of how to grow your company’s bottom line?
If you are (and you should be), then you should make plans now to attend the 2017 Big Grower Executive Summit*.
If you didn’t already know, the Big Grower Executive Summit will take place Oct. 1-3, in Wakefield, Massachusetts (near Boston).
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Big Grower Executive Summit. Our theme for 2017 is “What’s Next?” Over the course of two and a half days, BGES 2017 will provide you with a roadmap for your company’s future growth.
During the Executive Summit, you will have the opportunity to interact with your peers in candid discussions on topics affecting your businesses and our industry. You will gain new insights from respected experts in many different areas of business. And most importantly, return home with new ideas, new perspectives and solutions to today’s business challenges.
The 2017 program is packed with speakers who will help guide you and your company as you plan for the future.
Some of the topics that we will be addressing include: reaching today’s consumers; what’s happening in Washington; working with your bank; changes on the labor front; exploring new markets; the ins and out of insurance; and the state of the economy and its future impact on the green industry.
During the Summit, we also will be visiting the state-of-the-art production facilities of Pleasant View Gardens and lēf Farms in nearby Loudon, New Hampshire.
So, if you want to find out what’s next, then New England is the place to be in October.
To learn more about the program or to register to attend, please go to www.biggrower.com/executivesummit.
*Attendance is limited, and only growers with 250,000 square feet of growing space or more are eligible to attend.
Lowe’s Fulfillment Center Set to Open Next Year
Construction of Lowe’s massive direct fulfillment center in Cooperstown, Tennessee, is on schedule and the facility is expected to open in 2018. When it is completed, the center will cover approximately 1.1 million square feet — the equivalent of 22 football fields under one roof. The center will ship parcel packages directly to Lowe’s customers and stores nationwide and will be one of the home improvement retailer’s most technologically driven and sophisticated operations. Initially the company plans to hire 400 employees for the center.
Costco Chairman, Co-Founder Dies
Jeff Brotman, co-founder and chairman of the board, of Costco died on Aug. 1. He was 74. Brotman was a Seattle-based attorney, who along with his business partner James Sinegal, founded the warehouse club retailer in 1983. Based in Issaquah, Washington, Costco currently operates 736 warehouses around the globe, including 511 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 97 in Canada and 37 in Mexico.
Walmart Creates Roadmap to Help Renew U.S. Manufacturing
Last week, Walmart convened a diverse group of individuals and organizations representing government, business and non-governmental organizations to present a Policy Roadmap to Renew U.S. Manufacturing. The meeting included a bipartisan conversation about the current challenges and opportunities in the U.S. manufacturing sector. The roadmap proposes 10 policy actions to address major barriers to U.S. manufacturing growth, help recapture an estimated $300 billion in production of consumer goods and create an estimated 1.5 million U.S. jobs.
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