20 years ago we established InternetRetailing as the event and media business for professionals in ecommerce and multichannel. In 2014 we launched our research business, RetailX, to ensure that coverage was based on facts, performance and analysis. Dinners are curated by our Founder, Ian Jindal. You can see more about our activities on this site, but just ping Ian if you have any questions.

Our focus is upon the commercial leaders in the UK500 and EU1000 performance rankings. This means that we are continually researching people in those companies. At our dinners we like to mix people we’ve known for a while with leaders who are new to us – this keeps the evenings fresh and ensures that we have new inputs, ideas and expand the network. We also take suggestions from guests as to who they would nominate for future dinners.

For us this is our chance to listen and learn, and so we are continually looking for people who can stimulate, challenge and engage on emerging aspects of D2C.

You do not have to pay. You are invited as our guest.

If you need to know the cost of dinner (eg for anti-bribery or anti-corruption compliance) we can provide that.

All you need to pay for is your transport to and from the dinner.

Wonderful! Please drop Ian Jindal a note. We love recommendations.

Generally, no. Our aim is to convene a ‘board level conversation’ and so topics range wide and free without our intervention. Occasionally we are hosted at an Embassy, or around an event, and in which case there will be a flavour from that association, but we don’t theme our dinners nor do we manufacture talking points or topics.

We invite “commercial leaders”. For us this means leaders who engage with the consumer, or whose success is dependant upon satisfying the demanding, digital consumer. Typically these are leaders in ecommerce, marketing, brand, trading, strategy; however we include commercial leaders in finance, operations, logistics and stores where their interest is in improving the customer’s experience and of course spend. The key is a growth and commercial mindset since that means there will be an interest in the board-level conversation around the consumer, the brand and performance.

We hold our dinners under the Chatham House Rule (https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/chatham-house-rule) and so there is no quoting, no promotion, no publicity. We do not disclose the attendees, we do not take photos, we do not report on the evenings. Our dinners are an off-the-record, confidential gathering of leaders.

Our dinners are paid for from our research sponsorship. You’ll see from the annual reports that we work across Europe with a select group of long-standing sponsors. We use some of that income to fund the dinners so that our research is more than bare facts. As we say, people power performance. 2 sponsors attend but there are no speeches, sales, pitches and there is no data given or lead-generation. This is an evening of pure networking.

Our team works through our company lists diligently, but if you are new in post, quiet and modest on social media, or have a name that is towards the end of the alphabet (!) then we may not have reached you yet. Our apologies. Please don’t be shy about letting us know of your interest. Drop Ian a note or complete this form, and do be sure to cover the city/cities you could attend.

London is our base and we host c10 dinners a year here. Across Europe we visit Amsterdam (3), Berlin (3), Copenhagen (2), Paris and Stockholm. We have also run dinners in New York (autumn and/or NRF), Dubai, Melbourne, Sydney, Munich and Zurich. If you have a suggestion for a location then do let us know.