New Vision Summit Set for January

Columbus, Ohio -- Horticulture industry consultants John Stanley and Sid Raisch are joining forces for the two-day New Vision Summit, focused on giving independent garden centers advice and ideas to help them respond to future changes in the retail industry and provide direction.

Stanley and Raisch said in a news release about the event that IGCs must adapt and adjust to the changing times now, “because the average sale per customer of a typical American garden center is lower than many countries with developed garden center industries,” according to the release.

OFA will host the event, set for Jan. 30 and Jan. 31, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. The retreat is limited to the “35 leading thinkers and non-competing garden centers from Canada to the United States.”

“This is not a series of lectures by two consultants,” Stanley said. “Instead, the aim is for each of the presenters to bring forward [his or her] ideas and then allow the group to debate those ideas to come up with new strategies for their business and the industry.”

For more information about the event, visit www.YourNextLevel.org/NVF.