NEW YORK–Emanuel Weintraub Associates will hold a conference on Oct. 28 at the Harvard Club entitled, “Innovate/Reinvent Your Business.”
Featured speakers include Michael Gould, chairman and chief executive officer of Bloomingdale’s; Peter Boneparth, director of Kohl’s; Adam Rifkin, senior vice president of the global/retail consumer group for Lehman Brothers; and Jill Granoff, CEO of Kenneth Cole Productions.
Speakers will discuss consolidation at the retail and wholesale levels; the financially stressed consumer; the rising cost of products and how to pass those costs on; and how the upheaval in the financial and credit markets pressure businesses and consumers.