Retail Week Connect commercial content opportunities
EVENTS
Our co-sponsored events are an opportunity to show the retail community what you can do. Benefit from:
- One-to-one interactions with senior retail stakeholders
- Positioning yourself as a thought leader via our compelling content sessions
- Targeted lead generation
- Elevated brand awareness among our engaged audiences
Whatever it is you’re looking for, we have something for you.
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
LIVE 2025: RETAIL WEEK X THE GROCER
BUSINESS DESIGN CENTRE, LONDON
LIVE is being relaunched for 2025 as a highly focused one-day event of technology and digital innovation content, attracting senior decision makers in retail and grocery. We will showcase the technology, digital and consumer innovations that matter. Expect content-rich immersive sessions, hosted by experts, to debate the big challenges, meet new faces and find ways to realise the greatest opportunities. LIVE 2025 presents an unrivalled opportunity for your brand to not just be seen, but to be heard and experienced by retailers. Our team will work with you to ensure a creative approach to encourage attendees to engage with your brand on-site, not only generating leads but leaving a lasting impression
MARCH 20, 2025
RETAIL WEEK AWARDS
GROSVENOR HOUSE, LONDON
Becoming a partner of the awards ensures you have a high-profile integrated campaign, from pre-event brand awareness that cuts through the noise to post-event PR buzz. With more than 100 unique brands in attendance, representing billions of pounds in retail sales, this is an exclusive opportunity to surround yourself with the industry’s leading retailers and align your brand with retail excellence.
MARCH 27, 2025
PEOPLE & LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
THE ORCHARD at X+WHY, MARBLE ARCH, LONDON
People have always been retail’s greatest asset, and it has become more important than ever to hire the best and keep them engaged. At this jam-packed morning event, Retail Week will bring together unmissable content and networking to examine the challenges and opportunities facing people leaders in this dynamic industry. It’s your chance to present yourself as the expert and network with 30-40 decision makers in the HR and people spheres.
MAY 8, 2025
DIGITAL SUMMIT
THE ORCHARD at X+WHY, MARBLE ARCH, LONDON
A morning of carefully curated content and networking with a captive audience of 30 engaged decision-makers across ecommerce, marketing, customer, digital, tech and supply chain. As online retailers are working harder than ever to win digital spend, this is the perfect opportunity to position yourself as the solution to their problems.
JUNE 5, 2025
SUMMER LEADERS’ DINNER
JUMEIRAH, CARLTON TOWER, LONDON
Our Leaders’ Dinners (one in summer, one in winter) are two of the most prestigious c-suite networking events in the retail calendar. At our June dinner at the Jumeirah, you can build relationships with the most influential leaders across retail and hear from them directly about their biggest challenges and opportunities. Our special guest speaker for the evening will be B&Q CEO Graham Bell.
JUNE 4, 2025
GENERAL COUNSEL
ME LONDON, COVENT GARDEN
General Counsel is the only UK legal event in retail. Meet the UK’s foremost senior legal professionals who are leading legal and regulatory teams and driving strategic change across their businesses. This full-day event is an ideal platform to position your brand as a trusted partner to the retail industry, giving you exclusive access to general counsels and in-house legal directors across the community.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025
CONSUMER SUMMIT
THE ORCHARD at X+WHY, MARBLE ARCH, LONDON
The Consumer Summit will help redefine CX strategies and take a deep dive into the consumer psyche. The free-to-attend, half-day event will unite retail and brand leaders, industry experts and consumer psychologists to drill down on practical ways to combat the cost-of-living crisis and share a roadmap for balancing the consumer needs of today with their demands of tomorrow. Previous attendees have included Wayfair, The Very Group, Estée Lauder Companies and New Look.
OCTOBER 2, 2025
RESPONSIBLE RETAIL SUMMIT
THE ORCHARD at X+WHY, MARBLE ARCH, LONDON
Retail Week’s first Responsible Retail Summit is born out of our established Sustainability Summit. This new event will be broader in its remit, uniting retailers and brands for a morning of impactful content designed to help solve challenges and realise the opportunities around ESG and responsible retailing. We’ll be exploring not only the 'environmental' issues retailers need to be in front of, but the 'social' policies and actions retail employers need to enact, and the 'governance' factors of decision making. This is an exclusive opportunity to spend face-to-face time with 40 retail leaders, showcase your expertise and position your company as industry experts.
NOVEMBER 2025
WINTER LEADERS’ DINNER
CENTRAL LONDON
Our Leaders’ Dinners (one in summer, one in winter) are two of the most prestigious c-suite networking events in the retail calendar. You can build relationships with the most influential leaders across retail and hear from them directly about their biggest challenges and opportunities.
NOVEMBER 2025
INNOVATION SUMMIT
CENTRAL LONDON
As leaders strive to optimise online and offline strategies, Retail Week’s Innovation Summit will bring the entire retail ecosystem together for a day of networking, content and inspiration. With 60 retail attendees, the Innovation Summit is Retail Week’s largest event of the autumn/winter season, helping businesses map out their 2026 business transformation plans to achieve growth. Senior leaders from Tesco, Net-a-Porter and John Lewis have been among the previous event attendees.
BESPOKE BREAKFAST BRIEFINGS
If you would rather be the only sponsor in the room, we can work with you on creating a bespoke event, centred around the content themes that work for you and targeting specific job titles that will put your business on the map.
Retail Week’s invite-only breakfast briefings provide industry partners with an exclusive opportunity to network face-to-face with retail decision-makers in a luxury central London location. As the only supplier in the room, this is an opportunity to show off your retail insight and connect with decision-makers in an intimate, collaborative environment. Whatever a retailer’s pain points, this is your chance to demonstrate how your business can help overcome them.
CO-SPONSORED REPORTS
Retail Week’s engaging in-depth reports get the industry talking and put you front and centre of the conversation. They maximise your brand’s awareness and generate meaningful leads through engagement with senior retail leaders and decision-makers, positioning you as the experts.
MARCH: FUTURE LEADERS
Retail Week’s second annual Future Leaders report celebrates the names of those tipped to grace the boardrooms of the world’s biggest retailers in the years to come. The report profiles 30 up-and-coming chiefs and examines what it takes to be a leader of tomorrow against a backdrop of talent-retention challenges. 2024’s report generated 824 downloads - 55% of which were retail decision makers, making it one of the best-performing campaigns of the year. This is content we know the industry wants to read. By sponsoring it, you will align your company alongside the UK’s top CEOs in waiting, highlighting how your business is future-thinking, as well as celebrating the sector and the importance of investing in people and culture.
MARCH: THE SUPPLY CHAIN REPORT
With detailed analysis of how retailers across the globe are transforming their supply chains, alongside commentary from industry experts, Retail Week’s annual Supply Chain report will provide a blueprint for businesses looking to sustain growth and achieve success. Areas covered will include AI, managing risk, data, future-proofing global trade operations against an increasingly hostile political environment, and balancing ethics and profits.
Sponsoring this report gives you an exclusive platform to show retailers and brands how your solution can help them forge a path forward and achieve greater resilience, while engaging key stakeholders across supply chain. The report is downloaded by senior leaders spanning supply chain, operations, tech, transformation, finance, ecommerce, sustainability and more.
MARCH: THE ECOMMERCE REPORT
What does it take to win online spend in today's climate? Now's the chance for businesses to learn from the very best.
The Ecommerce Report, Retail Week’s annual publication, leverages exclusive data and insight to examine the strategies of 10 of the leading ecommerce retailers, diving into who they are and how they're winning.
Sponsor the report and benefit from brand awareness and lead generation among this important cohort. It's a great tool to spark sales conversations and engage key stakeholders while positioning your business as a leader and authority in ecommerce – crucial at a time when so many retailers are looking for solutions to help them navigate the challenge of reaching customers online.
JUNE: RETAIL 100
Retail Week’s highest-performing piece of content, the Retail 100 is an annual celebration of the industry’s most inspiring individuals. Now in its 19th year, the Retail 100 report recognises the work of c-suite leaders transforming the sector, disrupting traditional retail models and being a voice for industry. Providing partners with unrivalled access to the biggest decision-makers in retail, the report was read by leaders from Amazon, Next, EE, Boots, M&S, John Lewis, Screwfix, Holland & Barrett and more in 2024 – the campaign provides extensive branding and lead generation. Retail 100 is now a showcase, rather than a ranking, to reflect modern, flexible leadership and a move away from centralised power and hierarchies.
NOVEMBER: THE TECH LIST
The Tech List is Retail Week’s index of the 50 most influential people in tech disrupting retail today. It is a selective and exclusive celebration of individuals driving transformation worldwide from brands, retailers, start-ups, FMCGs, CPGs, investment firms and suppliers that are achieving demonstrable success driving technology and innovation in their fields – shaping retail as a result. Importantly, the index will not be confined to digital or tech roles. The Tech List is one of Retail Week’s top three highest-performing campaigns – sponsor it to drive high levels of engagement and position your business as an industry expert in retail innovation and transformation.
NOVEMBER: THE INNOVATION REPORT
Every retailer wants to ensure their finger is on the pulse when it comes to the latest tech and digital innovation. Yet, with so many solutions available and the industry evolving at pace, where should retailers be investing? What are the tech tools set to generate, and already generating, significant return on investment? And, crucially, where are the UK's top retailers placing their bets?
The Innovation Report: 50 of the top tech solutions powering global retail is a showcase of emerging technologies shaking up the sector to help answer these questions and enable retailers and brands to better inform their investment strategies for 2026.
Sponsor this report and position yourself as a key partner while benefitting from unrivalled engagement and lead gen among this important audience of tech and innovation decision makers.
BESPOKE REPORTS
When it comes to sole-sponsored lead generation, we can work with you on a bespoke report that demonstrates your expertise in the market and makes you the go-to supplier for your target audience. We will take a deep dive into your chosen content themes, shaping the report in a way that will really hit the mark with our engaged senior retail audience. Being the sole sponsor positions you as a thought-leader, drives brand awareness and delivers targeted lead generation among the companies and job titles you want.
