Annual Deloitte Top 250

Annual Delotte Top 250 Global Retailers Supplement

Date:    January 2009

Description: The STORES 2009 Global Powers of Retailing is a stand-alone supplement written and published by the elite international consulting firm of Deloitte and will be distributed as a Section 2 in the January issue of STORES. This universally respected study has been produced by D&T for decades and is highly awaited each year by industry experts with international interests. The findings of the study are also presented each year at a special session at the NRF Annual Convention in New York. This session is produced and hosted by Deloitte executives who focus on the contents of the supplement. A copy of the supplement is placed on each chair at the 2-hour session, which normally draws 400+ retail executive attendees.Recent co-sponsors have included: Epicor|CRS, Hypercom, JDA and PitneyBowes MapInfo.

Sponsor Benefits include:
• Sponsor logo to appear on the front cover of the supplement.
• Sponsor description and logo on the Acknowledgments page.
• Sponsor will receive full-page ad within the supplement to appear on Cover 2, 3 or 4(per availability at time of contract signing).
• Sponsor will receive additional advertorial page within the supplement. Sponsor has the option to transfer this full page, 4/c ad to any other 2009 issue of STORES.
• Co-sponsorship of web version of the supplement.
• Sponsor will receive three additional full-page, 4/C ads to run in STORES within 12 months of the supplement.
• Sponsor will receive additional copies of the supplement.
• Bonus distribution to attendees at the NRF Annual Convention in January 2009.
• First right of refusal for the following year’s sponsorship.

Contact:              Mike Gribbin