feed://www.cim.co.uk/MyCim/rss.aspx?feed=events_M_17 http://www.cim.co.uk/events/EventCalendar.aspx Upcoming events from The Chartered Institute of Marketing en-gb http://www.cim.co.uk/events/eventdetail.aspx?objectid=36220 William Kendall is an environmentalist, entrepreneur and Suffolk organic farmer. He is an expert in turning around companies and more importantly, turning them into international names. His strength is coming into a business, enabling the founder to exit, building the business to scale and then selling it on. He ran The New Covent Garden Soup Company for most of its first ten years before buying the then Green And Black's organic chocolate business which was eventually sold to Cadbury. Apart from advising Adnams, William is also a Director of Notcutts, the Suffolk based garden centre chain. He inves... 28 Sep 2010 http://www.cim.co.uk/events/eventdetail.aspx?objectid=36177 Mark Buckingham is the Corporate Affairs Lead for Monsanto in the UK and Ireland. Monsanto are one of the best known agricultural and life science companies in the world, and of course to many are synonymous with GM crops. They do much more than this of course. Mark will talk to us about how he sees the GM situation developing both in the UK and internationally. He will, however, discuss what is the wider role of a company such as Monsanto in the development of a more sustainable agri food supply chain that everyone - government, NGOs, retailers/foodservice companies and consumers are all demanding - bu... 04 Nov 2010 http://www.cim.co.uk/events/eventdetail.aspx?objectid=36180 Ed Garner, Communications Director at Kantar WorldPanel, will speak to us about the current state of the UK food and drink market.Kantar WorldPanel (previously TNS) is the leading consumer research agency in the UK and used extensively by major food and drink companies as well as the top retailers to develop insight about what is happening to the UK market place.Ed Garner will give a thorough overview of what has happened in the last 12 months with some insight as to what might happen in the future. All delivered in his own particular style.He will cover what has happened in the retail sector between key... 25 Nov 2010