The Retail Summit is the largest business conference in Central Europe. It lasts for three days and attracts over a thousand attendees each year. Whether you sell online or in brick-and-mortar stores, whether you are a manufacturer or a retailer, this is an event you cannot miss. Preparations for the 2025 edition are in full swing! Ken Hughes, customer experience expert, will be the keynote speaker.
Take a look at the key milestones of 30 years of the Retail Summit.
The value of personal contact is significantly growing in the digital age! You will verify here whether your company is heading in the right direction. Retail Summit acts as an accelerator of positive changes.
It is a pleasure to create a unique Retail Summit atmosphere, where the key B2C market players gain new energy, build and consolidate relationships, take inspiration, or simply improve their mood.
We have prepared 30 years of Retail Summit that is still growing – by quantity and quality. Last years event was always attended by more than thousand retailers and their suppliers. We are one of the three largest retail meetings in Europe.
Delivering a regular supply of informative and inspirational presentations by leading domestic and foreign entrepreneurs, managers and experts.
Facilitating sharing opinions and experiences among all players in the business market – domestic and international retailers and manufacturers, both online and offline traders.
Creating the ideal conditions for a variety of official and informal meetings aimed at extension of the existing cooperation or making new deals
Is this conference intended more for small or large companies? This question was already addressed in 1994 when the first annual event was being prepared. The still valid answer is that Retail Summit is for everyone who has the ambition to succeed, to improve themselves, their company, and the market environment. The size or form of company ownership doesn't matter, nor whether it operates in the "brick-and-mortar" or digital world.
The preparation of the Retail Summit is in hands of 2 entities: the Czech Confederation of Commerce and Tourism and the company Blue Events, which provides its secretariat and is responsible for financing and organisation of the event.
A most welcome part of the Retail Summit is the accompanying program in particular, a Gala evening, with the Mastercard Retailer of the Year Awards.
It changed the name twice, the logo three times and the venue five times. Retail Summit was involved in the expansion of the free market and the beginning of modern retail in the 1990s by opening eyes and new opportunities. Take a look at how the number of Retail Summit participants has evolved.
1 433 Attendees
Prague Congress Centre
World-renowned strategist
1 271 Attendees
Prague Congress Centre
expert for innovation, nexxworks
1 094 Attendees
Prague Congress Centre
professor, Oxford Internet Institute
1 020 Attendees
3 times the date of Summit is postponed, finally it takes place in September
Prague Congress Centre
founder, Rohlik Group
1 125 Attendees
The first Slovak New Retail Summit. An online special „Retail Summit Action“ airs in May
Clarion Congress Hotel Praha
president, Ecommerce Europe
1 100 Attendees
Clarion Congress Hotel Praha
CEO, Amazon Germany
1 065 Attendees
Clarion Congress Hotel Praha
Chairman, Hornbach
1 118 Attendees
Clarion Congress Hotel Praha
retail expert, Eagle Eye
1 027 Attendees
Clarion Congress Hotel Praha
Head of Business Development Europe, Amazon
1 085 Attendees
Clarion Congress Hotel Praha
Consultant, 2bAHEAD
1 032 Attendees
Clarion Congress Hotel Praha
Chairman of the Board, Kofola ČeskoSlovensko
936 Attendees
Clarion Congress Hotel Praha
president, EuroCommerce, later UK Business Secretary
818 Attendees
Změna místa konání
Clarion Congress Hotel Praha
CEO, Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute
845 Attendees
Top Hotel Praha
Partner, Globus Holding
861 Attendees
Top Hotel Praha
Founder, dm-drogeriemarkt
833 Attendees
Top Hotel Praha
CEO, Tesco CEE
743 Attendees
Top Hotel Praha
CEO, REWE Group
788 Attendees
Top Hotel Praha
Member of the management of the Schwarz Group
745 Attendees
Change of name to Retail Summit
Top Hotel Praha
European Commissioner for Trade
937 Attendees
Change of the venue
Sazka (nowadays O2) Arena, Praha
753 Attendees
10th year and new name Czech Retail Summit
Hotel Voroněž, Brno
770 Attendees
Hotel Voroněž, Brno
719 Attendees
Hotel Voroněž, Brno
752 Attendees
Hotel Voroněž, Brno
580 Attendees
Change of the venue
Hotel Voroněž, Brno
560 Attendees
Hotel Atrium Praha (today Hotel Hilton, Praha)
720 Attendees
Hotel Atrium Praha (today Hotel Hilton, Praha)
570 Attendees
Hotel Atrium Praha (today Hotel Hilton, Praha)
468 Attendees
Hotel Atrium Praha (today Hotel Hilton, Praha)
424 Attendees
The first Conference on trade development in CR (current Retail Summit)
Hotel Atrium Praha (today Hotel Hilton, Praha)
entrepreneur