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The European TCG Retail Summit is the world´s leading retail summit within the electrical industry. TCG stands for Technical Consumer Goods and includes the categories Consumer Electronics, Household Appliances, Information Technology, Telecommunications and Peripherals. This high level, annual conference focuses at senior management level and has evolved into the Think Tank and leading international networking platform in electrical retailing.

Senior executives from 20+ European countries and beyond attend the congress every year. The European TCG Retail Summit was founded in 2014 by Chris Buecker, President & CEO of Retail Plus GmbH, and is usually held in March/April.

Characteristics of the event are the exclusive (by invitation-only) and interactive format as well as the superb line-up, representing the top leaders both from electrical retail and industry from Europe and beyond.

History
The European TCG Retail Summit was held for the first time in 2014. Since then it is held on annual basis in different capitals in Europe. The European TCG Retail Summit is owned by Retail Plus GmbH, based in Zug, Switzerland. Before founding Retail Plus GmbH, Chris Buecker, the President & CEO, was Managing Director of one of the leading European retail organizations in electrical retail.

2016
TCG Summit 2016 was held over two days from 20th to 21st April. In 2016, 180 top managers from more than 15 European countries gathered to get the latest insight, analyzed and discussed the opportunities and challenges to come and networked on highest level.

Senior Executives from Samsung, Vodafone, GfK, Media Saturn, Euronics, Dixons Carphone, Philips, Darty, Elkjop, M.video, Electronic Partner, AO.com, Corte Ingles, Worten, E-Square, BCC were also joined and openly discuss with the industry how to build further the ecosystem and how to improve the environment to support the sales of electrical products and services in-store and online. Among the international renowned speakers: Europe´s leading retailer Media Saturn Holding and the disruptor AO.com presented their successful business and service models.

This year TCG Summit becomes The Think Tank and Leading Network Platform For Electrical Retail in Europe.

The 4th European TCG Retail Summit will take place on March 29-30, 2017, in Berlin.

2015
TCG Summit 2015 was held over two days from 22th to 23th April, Madrid. 2015 TCG Summit has an exclusive focus on technical consumer goods and offer to editors and journalists are offered a platform to report first hand about current retail topics related to technical consumer goods. Among the more than 30+ speakers/panelists from Europe´s electrical retail, including Microsoft, Vodafone, Samsung, Tech Data, were joined TCG Retail Summit and, spoke and discussion about TCG Sector. A number of electrical retail companies from across the Europe also launched their new products or made announcements as part of the summit.

During two days, national and international experts and top decision makers from this specific retail area and their supplier industry convened in Madrid to talk about the current retail situation, upcoming trends and possible challenges.

After success, the President & CEO of TCG Summit was announced that the next TCG Summit will be held in Amsterdam, April 2016.

2014
This was the first pan-European TCG (technical consumer goods) Retail Summit that took place in Berlin on May 7-8th.

The "who's who" from the sector, 150 senior managers from 20 European countries, attended the event, representing leading organizations in TCG Retail: Euronics, Media-Saturn Dixons, Darty, Electronic Partner and Amazon, were some of the European retailers that were present in the conference.

On the manufacturers’ side, Samsung, TP Vision, Sony, Panasonic, Microsoft, BSH, Electrolux, Miele, Whirlpool, Groupe SEB, Philips and others took advantage of this unique opportunity. Likewise, more than 20 leading national magazines representing almost every European country showed an interest in this innovative initiative byattending and covering the Retail Summit.

The 1st European TCG Retail Summit has been extremely positive. More than 90% of the participants expressed that it is likely or very likely to attend the 2nd Conference next year as well”, Chris Buecker, founder of the European TCG Retail Summit, stated, and promptly added that the 2nd Pan-European TCG Retail Summit will be held at the end of April 2015.