Autumn Fair offers Kindness Economy insights with Queen Of Shops retail expert
Perceptive insights are on the cards at Autumn Fair with retail expert Mary Portas taking to the Inspiring Retail Stage at Birmingham’s NEC for what’s set to be an inspirational conversation with Forbes’ Retail contributor Mark Faithfull.
Attendees can expect a memorable discussion with one of retail’s leading voices as the broadcaster, author, and businesswoman talks through her insights on how businesses must adopt kinder ways of behaving and how the secret to saving your store lies in the relationships built with customers to make shopping more brilliant.
Autumn Fair opens this coming Sunday, 4 September, running through to next Wednesday, 7 September, and Mary can be heard at 1.30pm on Tuesday, 6 September, explaining how people live, buy, and sell is changing, and she argues that over the past 30 years the business of what we buy has been dominated by the biggest, fastest, and cheapest.
Victoria Pope, head of content at Autumn Fair, said: “Mary Portas is a retail powerhouse and her new guiding principles of the Kindness Economy offer a common sense and practical approach to moving forward and rebuilding for a new era of doing business. Her talks are always fascinating, and our visitors come away inspired with invaluable insights and advice.”
Known as the Queen Of Shops, Mary’s latest book Rebuild draws on her decades of business experience and outlines how to thrive in this new Kindness Economy.
She believes those values no longer resonate and it’s time to put people and planet before profit. Mary says the Kindness Economy is a new value system where, in order to thrive, businesses must understand the fundamental role they play in the fabric of people’s lives.
Her new book Rebuild is about resetting the dial, giving businesspeople pause for thought about how they make money, as well as the practical tools to build back post-pandemic. And it speaks to anyone who votes with the pound in their pocket – all of us who, with social progress in mind, want to spend our money differently and better.
For further information and to register to attend visit www.autumnfair.com, where you can also download the official Autumn Fair app.
