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Portfolio: Economic Affairs, Art and Culture, Local Media, Participation, Monuments, Infrastructure and Water, Business, Competition and Purchasing.
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President of Group Géraud SA, created in 1880. Its activity is to conceive, develop, fund and manage various public facilities such as retail markets, livestock markets, wholesale markets, parking areas, etc., in partnership with local or regional public authorities. Nowadays, the Group achieves more than 50% of its activity outside the French territory where it originated, mainly in the United Kingdom. In both countries, the Group is the leader in retail market management. Among more than 400 local governments, it has concluded its major partnership agreements with the Municipalities of Bordeaux, Paris and Liverpool. The Group is still controlled by the founding family. Jean-Paul belongs to the 4th generation and took over leadership of the company in 1981.
Maarten de Graaf is currently employed by the Dutch Retail Board (HBD) as Policy Advisor. He has 24 years experience in the support of the retail business, both on a national and international level. For the past 10 years he has been specialising in market trading. Apart from market trading he is also responsible for Consumer Affairs for the retail trade as a whole, with food safety being one of the relevant subjects.
Graham Wilson was appointed as Chief Executive of the National Association of British Market Authorities (NABMA) in April 2005. Prior to that date he served as the Legal Advisor to Nabma. He is a solicitor having been employed as Head of Legal Services at Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. While at Wakefield he was also an Advisor to the Local Government Association on a number of key local government issues. In addition to his work with Nabma, Graham also works in the local councils sector as Legal Advisor to the Society of Local Council Clerks. He has written a number of publications on market law and street trading and represented Nabma on a wide range of national and international forums.
Malcolm Veigas is Assistant Director (Environmental Services) at Bolton Council in the UK. He moved into retail markets management in the mid 1990’s with a succession of operational and strategic management roles at local council market portfolios in the North of England, namely Leeds, Huddersfield and Bradford. In January 2008 he moved to Bolton Council (in the North West of England) as an Assistant Director for seven Commercial Services including Markets, the School Meals Service and Cleaning Services joining their Environmental Services Department Management Team. Malcolm sits on the Working Group for Retail Markets chaired by the UK Communities and Local Government Department of National Government .He has also represented WUWM in recent meetings with the European Union and in particular with the European Commission responsible for the Internal Market and Services within the EU.
BSM is the national federation of showmen and market traders in Germany, organized at state, regional and local level. It represents approximately 12.000 enterprises (8.000 Market traders, 4.000 Showmen and 3 well-known circuses) and is subdivided into four Units, which represent the various professions: Showmen and Circuses, General Market Trading, Weekly Markets and Promotional Sale and Propagandists. It is financed by membership fees and commissions. Their main task is lobbying the European Parliament and other authorities responsible for the implementation of legislation. BSM also offers consultancy to its members and promotes the preservation of traditional markets and fairs.
Roberto Alonso Gordón is the Retail Markets Department Director at MERCASA, where the majority of his professional responsibility deals with seeing to various tasks for the Management of Food Units, the Management of Commercial Centres as well as International Management. He is a specialist in all matters concerning food product distribution (retail and wholesale commerce), has published various articles on commercial distribution and on the format of local retail markets, and has participated as a speaker at countless conferences dealing with this sector. He has a Degree in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and a Masters in Business Management and Administration from the Instituto de Empresa I.E. de Madrid.
Henk is President of the Dutch Market Traders Association (CVAH) for more than 7 years and beforehand he was a fish trader on several markets for over 30 years. During that period he was already involved in the association at a local level. Apart from ensuring a strengthened profile of retail market sector throughout the Netherlands, his focus is on innovation in the markets Industry. He represents the CVAH in many public and private bodies at the national level.
Ad van Poppel MSc studied Economics at Tilburg University and started his career as a policy advisor with the City of Eindhoven. In 1984, he was appointed director of Business Development Den Bosch Region, a regional economic development corporation. Between 1990 and 2001 Ad held positions as a director with various building companies and real estate developers, such as Wilma Bouw and Ballast Nedam Woningbouw. In 2002, he became a partner consultant with ECORYS Research & Consulting in Rotterdam. In 2007, he became a program manager with the City of Helmond and has in this capacity been coordinating the development of the city centre and the canal zone.
He has a Bachelor in Economics and Management, Public Economics.1987-1992 University of Vigo and a Masters in Taxation and Tax Advisory from the Center for Financial Studies (1994-1995). He has been a Management Consultant for MHAF Consultores since 1996. Since 2006 he is also the Coordinator and manager of MERCACEVI (the Retail Market Federation of the City of Vigo in Spain and since 1998 the Market Manager of Travesas Retail Market Business Association.
During the summer of 2011, Copenhagen’s freshest food retailers will be moving in together to one of the city’s most central addresses: Israels Plads. Jeudan A/S aims to provide Copenhagen’s citizens with retail space that allows for a more flourishing and accessible food culture. The new retail market will be the first indoor market in the history of the city. The size of the square available for the market is 6625m2 with each of the 2 indoor markets located there some 1200m2 in size. The market manager is Mr Niels Lønborg Brandt.
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Joe Harrison is CEO of the UK National Market Traders Federation (NMTF) since June 2007. He has a wealth of experience in the retail markets industry, starting work on Stockport market at the age of 14 on a fabric stall and setting up his own business on the market in 1976. Joe’s principal role within NMTF is to raise the profile of retail markets throughout the UK, combined with driving the federation’s five-year business plan. He was appointed to be a Genesis Initiative rapporteur on the working groups of foodstuffs and retail of UEAPME which is a Brussels based advisory body to the EU. He was also inspirational in encouraging the NMTF to become corporate champions of the UK Association of Town Centre Managers (ATCM), recognising the need for close co-operation between town centre management and the markets industry.
After a career in sports statistics, bringing him both to the Nagano Winter Olympics in Japan in 1998 and the Beijing Summer Games in 2008, Lars Janssen switched his professional career to the world of enery saving. In the autumn of 2008 he started working for the Dutch foundation Energiecentrum MKB (Energy Centre for Small Enterprises). After the funding for this foundation ended in March 2011, Janssen started his own foundation: ECMKB, Energy Consult for Small Enterprises. The aim of ECMKB is to stimulate, facilitate and help small enterprises take concrete steps to save energy. Since 2009 the Dutch Market Traders Association (CVAH) and Janssen have worked together on a more sustainable future for the retail market within the Netherlands. One of the main projects in this period was the organisation of the Energy Conscious Market in the city of Utrecht. This was a very successful project, saving more than 20 percent on total energy. The Utrecht example had multiple successors among retail markets in other cities in the Netherlands, all with a similar but yet unique approach, but with the same goal: saving energy at the marketplace.
Jasper van Gaalen works as a senior researcher and policy consultant within the broad safety field. He is associated with BMC, a large Dutch consultancy company that concentrates on public administration. Focus items for Jasper van Gaalen are property crime, fire safety and crisis management. He has also been associated with the police organization. In 2008, he developed in assignment from the Dutch retail organization and in interaction with specialists from the fire department field, the Dutch association of municipalities, the Dutch association of market managers and the Dutch association of market traders, a guideline and instruction for safety measures by local communities and market traders in order to guarantee public safety on the retail market, especially with regard to the risk of fire, explosion and other disasters. This guideline serves now as a standard for local communities for the organization of public safety on retail markets. It is also connected to national formats for local law-making with respect to retail markets.
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