How the 2024 Holiday Season Fared & What It Says About 2025
Join the Retail Dive editorial team and industry experts for an exclusive event as we review how retailers closed out the year. We’ll delve into lessons from the 2024 holiday season and explore what retailers can carry into 2025 as they plan for the year ahead. Our panel of experts, also featuring journalists from our sister publication, Supply Chain Dive, will break down how the shopping season stacked up against expectations.
Who should attend?
- Retail executives and employees
- Logistics and supply chain executives and employees
- Retail analysts
- Other professionals and researchers in the retail space
Reserve Your Seat
Agenda
Retail Dive senior reporter Daphne Howland will guide attendees through a series of in-depth sessions with industry experts, all with deep knowledge of the industry, to highlight the lessons from the 2024 holiday season. What will retailers take into 2025 as the industry pivots to look ahead and plan for the year?
Sessions
Join us for these engaging sessions with our editorial team and industry experts:
All about the Returns
Daphne Howland and Supply Chain Dive senior reporter Max Garland will talk about returns and how the supply chain affected the holiday season. What disruptions will remain on the horizon for 2025, and are retailers really prepared for changes year after year?
Winners and Losers of the Holiday
Daphne Howland and Neil Saunders, managing director at GlobalData, discuss how retailers executed during the holiday quarter – and their results. Attendees will also get an inside look at exclusive insights based on store checks and GlobalData information.
Holiday 2024 Deep Dive
If you weren’t able to join us for our annual event predicting the holiday season, we have you covered. Daphne Howland, Meghann Martindale, who leads retail market intelligence for Avison Young, and Gregg Katz, who leads product, innovation and marketing at RetailStat, delve into the holiday to share a scorecard of our pre-holiday analysis. What did we get right? What was entirely unexpected? And what can the 2024 holiday tell us all about 2025?
Lessons Learned
In this final session, Retail Dive Lead Editor Stephanie Arnold and Senior Reporter Daphne Howland wrap up the event with an overview of the holiday’s most surprising developments. What will our reporters predict will show up again – or for the first time – in 2025?
