UB Consultants is organising The Retail Summit 2007 at Hyderabad's Taj Banjara on December 14. From Hyderabad, the event will travel to Pune, Ahmedabad, Indore, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and Bangalore.

Retail is big in India today. Liberalisation of economy in the 90s and the entry of large players has brought the retail industry into spotlight.

Big players and national retail chains are changing the rules of the game today and organised retail, though still in an embryonic stage, has huge potential.

Speakers for the summit include Sameer Mathur, business head - retail, media, services and real estate, Airtel Enterprise Services; Manish Agarwal, vice president - marketing & head e-commerce, Rediff.com; Mitesh Gajera, MD, Cygnus Jewellery; Naveen Rakhecha; CEO South Asia; Cartridge World; Sridhar, MD, Brand-Comm; K Venkata Ramana Murthy, regional operations manager, Odyssey India Ltd; AND Raghu Ram, senior manager - retail marketing, GVK One.