Contributors

Carolyn Schnare

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Chief Content Officer, Liquid Barcodes and Founder, Acuity LLC. Carolyn has been involved with the convenience retailing industry for nearly two decades with an extensive knowledge of customer engagement and marketing, sustainability, and community outreach. Schnare worked at NACS (National Association of Convenience Stores) in a variety of roles from event production to membership and most recently as Director of Strategic Initiatives and host and producer of the popular industry podcast, Convenience Matters.
Chris Morley

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Managing Director, Kantar Worldpanel UK & IRE, USA at Kantar. I have built a reputation for turning large developed market businesses around. I also have in-market experience in Asia, Europe and North America and expertise in acquiring and integrating tech companies. One of the most rewarding aspects of my work is re-energising large end to end teams and more recently transforming mid-size acquisitions, often tech focused or start-ups I have learning an enormous amount by being based in a wide range of countries and cultures having succeeded in eight different locations including Shanghai, Sydney, Ho Chi Minh City, Chicago and London. At the heart of every successful business is great senior client relationships. I love spending time actively listening to and working with key clients and speaking at major industry events.
Christian Warning

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Sales and marketing expert. Christian is the founder and managing director of The Retail Marketeers, a Hamburg based foodvenience think tank. Christian is NACS Representative for German speaking markets. He is a very experienced former senior retailer with wide and senior connections and is also the go-to commentator and analyst on this exciting, changing and growing market. He worked for 13 years for Shell in different management functions, including heading Shell’s billion dollar non-fuels retail business in Germany in his early thirties.
Dan Munford

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As an experienced and well connected strategist on convenience, Dan is a frequent advisor at CEO and retailer main Board level. He is owner and Managing Director of the Insight group of companies, including consultancy Insight Research and the Global Convenience Store Focus publication. Dan advises the NACS International Board.
Evolve ODM

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EvolveODM are an independently owned company who specialise in providing end-to-end managed network solutions to a range of businesses, helping to reduce costs, simplify management of services, and give business owners and their teams more time to do what they do best. Founded in 2005, we’ve worked with a variety of clients across different industries around the world, building a team of highly experienced specialists to help create effective and efficient packages using any combination of our different offerings.
Fiona Briggs

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Freelance retail business journalist. Fiona is an experienced journalist and editor, writing exclusive content for GCSF. She is founder of retailtimes.co.uk. She contributes regularly to NACS Magazine and writes articles on omnichannel shopper trends for Radial. Fiona is available for commissions at fionalbriggs@gmail.com
Global Convenience Store Focus

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Written by Global Convenience Store Focus

Global Convenience Store Focus Ltd (GCSF) is a unique, online publishing and broadcast platform for a senior retail executive audience in the global food, convenience, fuels & mobility retail industry. In a time of massive disruption and equally large opportunity, our goal is to create high value strategic content.
Guest Contributor

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Global Convenience Store Focus is pleased to work with multiple guest contributors sharing their views and expertise on topics and issues effecting the convenience retail industry
Joseph Bona

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Brand and retail design expertise across all sectors. Joe is President of BONA DESIGN LAB. He brings a global perspective and extensive retail design experience across all sectors, from convenience to mass market and from drug to luxury. During his career Bona has directed a wide range of initiatives for such companies as Terpel, Topaz, PetroChina, MOL, AMPM, Wawa and Duane Reade to name a few.
Paula Thomas

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Independent loyalty consultant. With over twenty-five years marketing experience, Paula is a loyalty marketing consultant. She writes extensively about driving loyalty in the convenience retail industry as well as managing consumer loyalty propositions, strategy and loyalty programme operations across all sectors. Former Chief Content Officer at Liquid Barcodes and previous clients have included Telefonica O2 Priority, Three Mobile, Electric Ireland, Allied Irish Bank and The Entertainer Group (UAE), as well as Avios, the global points currency for some of the world’s top airlines. She is also a former judge for the Loyalty Magazine Awards and host of the "Let's Talk Loyalty" podcast.
NACS

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NACS advances the role of convenience stores as positive economic, social and philanthropic contributors to the communities they serve. The U.S. convenience store industry, with more than 153,000 stores nationwide selling fuel, food and merchandise, serves 160 million customers daily-half of the U.S. population-and has sales that are 10.8% of total U.S. retail and foodservice sales. NACS has 2,100 retailer and 1,750 supplier members from more than 50 countries.
Nicholas Scherzer

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Insight Director, Nick Scherzer joined the business over a decade ago and is a recognized expert on the European and international convenience and fuel retail markets. Nick has led Insight’s global strategic store visit program for many years, building a strong network of relationships with retailers across the globe. At last count we estimate the program has engaged with 2,500 retailers and suppliers, visiting upwards of 300 convenience and fuel retail sites in 25 cities, across 5 continents over the years.

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Written by Nikolay Vylegzhanin

PDI

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Written by PDI

Delivering software solutions to help businesses grow revenue, optimise operations and turn data into insights; PDI is proud sponsor of Global Convenience Store Focus
Titan Cloud

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Providing industry-leading solutions for environmental compliance, advanced fuel analytics, and facility management, so that clients can effectively manage risk and run efficient, profitable businesses. The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered near Nashville, Tennessee.