🎯 Retail Business Planning Webinar
Exact formulas and strategies used by highly successful retail organizations
📅 Date: December 30, 2025 ⏰ Time: 11:00 AM EST (New York) 💻 Location: Online
Recording of the session will be provided to the Registrants
🔥 Why Attend?
This is not another fluffy talk. It’s a high-impact, action-focused session revealing the exact frameworks top retailers use to:
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Design performance-driven retail structures
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Align operations and merchandising as dual growth engines
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Build financially sound plans that increase revenue and profit
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Use AI and Open-to-Buy discipline to manage inventory and unlock cash flow
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Define precise customer profiles that drive real marketing ROI
- Discover “Retail Forecasting GPT” – the most powerful Retail AI Tool that predicts the future with unprecedented accuracy.
✅ What You will Master in this 60 – Minute Masterclass:
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The Engines of Retail – Clarify the role of Operations and Merchandising in revenue and profit generation
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Category Management vs. Buying – Understand why Category Managers are accountable P&L owners, not just buyers
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Planning Your Operating Statement – Learn to build retail-specific business plans, including sales projections and COGS strategy
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Target Setting & Accountability – How to break down projections by store and team member for true performance management
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Customer Definition That Works – Demographics, psychographics, and lifestyle: how to actually use them
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Smart Inventory Planning – Using Inventory Turns, GMROI, and OTB to avoid overstocks, markdowns, and cash flow bottlenecks
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RFID, AI & Modern Tools – Tech-enabled inventory accuracy, forecasting, and customer mapping without the jargon
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Planning for Real Profit – Use over-target performance to multiply bottom-line growth
- Unlocking Hidden Potential – Expose the true potential of your locations and learn how to find and exploit the untapped growth opportunities in your business.
🔥 Meet Your Host
Retail Business Planning Webinar is led by Matt Parmaks, Executive Vice President at DMSRetail and a true retail powerhouse. Over a 30+ year career, Matt has done it all — from frontline sales to leading a retail expansion across 100+ stores, overseeing teams of up to 1,000 people, and generating more than $750 million in revenue. He’s also a published expert on retail performance, an engineer by education, and a master of breaking down complex planning into clear, actionable strategies. Get ready to learn from one of the best minds in the business.
💡 Who Should Attend?
- Retail Owners and Executive-Level Managers
- Category Managers and Buyers accountable for P&L
- VP/Director of Merchandising and Operations
🎁 Bonus:
All registrants will receive the Retail Business Planning Toolkit
Includes:
✔ Sales projection templates
✔ Store target breakdown sheets
✔ OTB calculator
✔ Inventory turn tracker
✔ Category planning guide
Register Now!
Only $97!
