Why Exhibit

• Enhance your potential by expanding your retail customer base and increase your market share
• Share product launch plans and seek distribution/stocking of your new products
• Explore strategic business opportunities
• Discuss your distribution and marketing plans
• Review current business status with existing customers
• Find solutions to challenging issues
• Learn about the industry’s most compelling trends by participating in the education programs.
• Participate in our guaranteed-appointments program, Meet the Market, totaling over 7,500 pre-scheduled meetings
• Get your product or service viewed by as many chain retailers as possible within the industry
• Connect with the buyers from more than 300 retail companies, representing over 197,000 retail outlets, who collectively buy $650 Billion in supplier goods and services
• Leave the show with knowledge from industry presentations on strategic businesses development opportunities and solutions
• Be efficient with your travel. Network with our retail attendees: Category Managers, Directors, VPs, Presidents, and CEOs to streamline your time and get face-to-face with the decision makers who buy what you sell
• The NACDS Board of Directors, including CVS, H-E-B, Hy-Vee, Rite Aid, Walgreens, and Walmart, to name just a few, endorses the NACDS Total Store Expo. Join us and be a part of the largest and most powerful convergence of drug, food, mass, and value retailing all in one place, at one time.

• Preview the latest innovations in consumer packaged goods, store/pharmacy technology, pharmaceutical products and more entering the market
• Meet with a majority of your suppliers and their senior sales staff at one event, in one place
• Obtain that special niche product for your stores
• Enhanced collaboration with key trading partners
• Learn about new merchandising programs, promotional offers, “market specials”
• Review and enhance current programs and make mid-course product and merchandising adjustments
• Stay abreast of the emerging market: new people, new products, technology, and services, new thought processes, new styles, colors, trends, and packaging
• Our education programs are without parallel, covering the latest on state-of-the-art pharmacy operations, practice and clinical issues, distribution and marketing
• Follow up on key discussions that were initiated during the NACDS Annual Meeting

NACDS has carefully formatted the Total Store Expo to create opportunities for Exhibitors and Retailers to interact. Successful Exhibitors take full advantage of these opportunities to meet Retailers and start conversations.

The daily networking continental breakfasts, exhibit hall lunches and evening receptions are great opportunities to meet new prospects and reconnect with partners.

As a member-driven trade association, NACDS focuses on three priorities:

1. Advocating for pro-pharmacy and pro-patient policy in all levels and branches of government;
2. Communicating the value of community pharmacies as the face of neighborhood healthcare; and
3. Fostering business community and business solutions through conferences and other member programs.

For more information about the ways in which membership in NACDS will benefit your company, visit the NACDS membership benefits page and contact the NACDS Membership Department at membership@nacds.org or (703) 837-4111.