Events

On Thursday, May 11 from12:00 – 1:00 pm CST Women Impacting Storebrand Excellence (WISE) will present the FREE Webinar “Creating a Kindness Culture in the Workplace”. Gabriella van Rij: Speaker, Author & Activist for Kindness will discuss:

In our current fast-paced environment, where every mistake we make is amplified through social media and thus blown out of context, we now communicate in a way that has become unfiltered, uncensored, and unacceptable. Through funny analogies and stories, Gabriella van Rij discusses how kindness – in our communication and behavior – plays an important role in creating a robust and emotionally safe workplace for everyone.

Gabriella famously says, “Nobody strikes another coming from a positive place. But all it takes to help another go from a negative space to a positive place is that one moment, one kindness to BE the difference!”

In this webinar, you will learn:

• The role kindness plays in creating a community and work environment where all feel safe and accepted by others.
• Hindrances to kindness in the workplace.
• What kindness looks like in the workplace, practical applications.
• Empathy and learning to shift your perception to see the other’s perspective.
• How making it about them, not about you, will help you be a better communicator.

Gabriella van Rij: Speaker, Author & Activist for Kindness
The leading voice of the Kindness movement, Gabriella van Rij [pronounced “ray”] works to spread the message that we are all unique, and we each have something to offer the person next to us. Gabriella’s presentations blend humor, original analogies, and her life story to create a rare perspective-shifting experience that speaks to all and that provides the tools audiences need for more productive relationships. Gabriella is an acclaimed author of three books. Watch Your Delivery is Gabriella’s third and latest book, based on one of her popular presentations of the same name.

For the fourth annual Vertex Awards, we are excited to announce the first ever Vertex Awards Celebration. This is a FREE event, so please join us as we celebrate the winning retailers and their brands as well as the agencies, manufacturers and service providers who made the products possible.

Everyone is invited, retailers, manufacturers, service providers and agencies are all welcome to join us. And if you are a prior winner please come and meet your award winning peers.

The event will be held prior to the PLMA International show May 15, 2017, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Hilton Amsterdam hotel, famous for John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 ‘bed-in for peace’ and Hilton’s first hotel in the Netherlands. This iconic hotel was famously built on the baseline of Plan Zuid, a district designed by prominent architect Berlage, which highlights the Amsterdam School of architecture and contains boutiques, designer shops, and couture houses, in addition to being within walking distance of world-renowned Museum Square.

Vertex Awards Celebration
May 15th, 2017
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Cost: FREE

HILTON AMSTERDAM
APOLLOLAAN 138,
AMSTERDAM, 1077 BG, NETHERLANDS
TEL: +31-20-7106000

PLMA’s annual “World of Private Label” International Trade Show is organized by the Private Label Manufacturers Association which represents more than 4000 member manufacturers around the globe. With offices in Amsterdam and New York, PLMA is the largest association of its kind, devoted exclusively to the promotion of private label.

For thirty years, PLMA’s “World of Private Label” International Trade Show has brought retailers, wholesalers and other private label professionals together with manufacturers to help them find new products, make new contacts, and discover new ideas that will help their private label programs succeed and grow. The expanding popularity of private label has meanwhile led to unprecedented market share worldwide. Record high market shares have been recorded in more than a dozen countries, and private label now accounts for 40% of all products sold in six European countries.

Walking the aisles of the “World of Private Label” International Trade Show, examining the displays of exhibitors, will be thousands of buyers from all over the world: supermarkets, hypermarkets, discounters, drugstores, department stores, and importers and exporters. They come looking for products ranging from low-cost alternatives to innovative premium lines, from food and household products to health and beauty. Concentrated into two days, the “World of Private Label” International Trade Show is the most efficient and productive way to source for a company’s private label needs.