Innovation Program at Imperial Distributors

CART is hosting our second Innovation Program, presented by Retail Tomorrow, at Imperial Distributors this Winter, 2020. Imperial is a leading provider of health, beauty, and wellness products, along with seasonal and general merchandise, and is seeking innovative capabilities to help them be best-in-class today while discovering new solutions to help the company transform for tomorrow!

The next event will be in Winter, 2020.

Day 1: Welcome & Imperial Tour
Day 2: Innovation Program

The Innovation Program at Imperial Distributors is where you'll be able to bring the future of warehouse technology into focus all in one room.

About Our Partners

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Retail Tomorrow is a GMDC initiative with a community of retailers, wholesalers, brands, service providers, and innovators who uncover opportunities in a dynamic retail environment and co-create actionable solutions to meet the changing consumer's needs. They provide thought leadership to help grow brands and technologies in the marketplace by focusing on improving the overall customer experience.

 By Application Only

Innovation programs are by application only. We review your application and if it meets certain criteria, we further vet it with the host leadership team. If they’re interested, great! You’re invited. If the host isn’t specifically interested in your solution, we’ll let you know to move on to the next one. Imperial hosts Innovation Programs semi-annually.

Ahead of Time

You will be notified of your acceptance within about two weeks of submitting your application. Once we have the green light, we share all the logistics information, more detailed program information, and a list of the attendees to the program.

We’ll set you up with everything you need for success.

Presentation Performance: Positioning & Delivery Conversation

We appreciate that you put a great deal of time and effort into crafting your company’s message. We get it. We know that. But crafting, memorizing, and delivering at an Innovation Program is drastically different from giving any other company pitch you’ve ever given, so get ready & let’s have some fun!

As you start working on your presentation, we’ll give you the feedback from the host about your application and why you were accepted. We also will develop you as a speaker to make sure you’re able to deliver the mosts powerful presentation possible.

How do we do it?

As part of your acceptance into the program we develop you in Presentation Mastery. A program we designed specifically to deliver an effective presentation on-site and get the desired results. Not only do we give you the ins & outs of what the presentation looks like, we’ll give you insight from Imperial into exactly what they’re looking for and exactly what they want to hear from you. This is about a win-win-win partnership!

Presentation Format

An Innovation Program is a showcase for you to present your company in about 15 minutes. There are 10 minutes to present and 5 minutes for Q&A. It sounds short, but don’t worry. Every solution that has joined us does it with plenty of time. This is like the trailer to a movie — if we can’t support the executives understanding what you do and how you do it in 10 minutes, a deeper dive won’t help. Of course, program materials support the executives to have your contact information and application details during the presentation as well.

Why under 15 minutes?

This short talk model works, since it only demands the audience's attention for a short period of time, decreasing the chance of minds wandering or daydreaming about lunch. In fact, some of our greatest Innovation Program talks have been as short as 5 minutes long!

After the Program

There’s Q&A after every presentation so you have a chance to hear live some of the feedback. There are also feedback forms that executives will fill out for every presentation there including: was your presentation clear, what other questions they have, if they’re interested in follow up or even moving right to a pilot. And we get you a summary of all that information within days of the event. You also will receive all the contact information of the attendees to follow up as appropriate.

Hear What’s Being Said

BE PART OF BRINGING THE FUTURE TO IMPERIAL

Apply to join Imperial Distributors' executives as they dive into what the future of commerce looks like. The CART Innovation Program Presented by Retail Tomorrow, is a full day on-site experience with educational speakers, key decision makers and presenting companies all coming together to make a difference for Imperial.

Imperial Distributors understands how fast the industry is transforming and is moving to get out in front of the change through an Innovation Program event.

THE HISTORY

About Imperial Distributors

 

Imperial Distributors is a leader in distribution and merchandising of supermarket non-foods products encompassing health, beauty & wellness, general merchandise, and seasonal merchandise. The company is headquartered in Worcester, MA where both it’s corporate office and distribution center is located. The company services 4,200 retail stores across 27 states throughout the Northeast, South Atlantic, and Midwest regions.

By Application Only

Apply to attend their semi-annual on-site Innovation Program at Imperial Distributors. This forum helps key decision makers and decision influencers to move pilots, implementations and decisions forward faster. After being accepted you'll go through an extensive positioning & delivery process — we'll work with you on everything from your presentation deck to specific requests to make sure you're set up for the greatest success at the event.

Next event will be held Winter, 20202. Apply to learn more about the Innovation Program and see if you’re a fit.