Lifestyle, Reliance Retail has been unanimously elected by the retail industry leaders to chair the India Retail Forum (IRF 2010) scheduled to be held on September 28th and 29th, 2010 at the Renaissance Hotel, Mumbai.
Nominated by Sanjiv Goenka of RPG Group and seconded jointly by Kishore Biyani of Future Group and Thomas Varghese of Aditya Birla Retail, Bijou Kurien, received support of over 200 industry leaders besides prominent global and Indian trade bodies, to lead the 7th edition of IRF and make this the biggest ever retail show in India.
Aptly themed ‘Get the Power’, IRF 2010 promises a sharing and empowering experience with great retail minds from across the globe. B S Nagesh, the immediate past Chairman of the forum in his welcome message said that while the 2009 edition of IRF effectively signaled the resurgence of retail in India, the 2010 edition, under the chairmanship of Bijou Kurien, will see world visionaries, retail captains and policy makers converging to discuss India’s consumption potential and how modern retail can further stimulate and channelise this consumption and create multifaceted growth of the economy.