NACS State of the Industry 2019 Photo Gallery

CHICAGO — Nearly 400 retailers and suppliers attended NACS’ 2019 State of the Industry Summit in April in Chicago to get an early glimpse at the convenience-store industry’s annual sales data and trends. Here’s a look at general sessions and networking opportunities during the event …

General-session speaker Andy Jones of Sprint Food Stores

Greg Parker of Parker Cos. with his team

Paul Elliott of Swedish Match

Economist and speaker Anirban Basu of Sage Policy Group

Chris Jones of Casey’s General Stores (center) with Van Tarver and Tim Venghaus of GreenPrint

General-session speaker Billy Milam of RaceTrac

John Zikias of Holmes Oil Co.

Exploring the Cool New Products gallery

Shopper insights expert and speaker Todd Hale, formerly of Nielsen

Dean Zurliene (left) and Mike Eichenberger of Monster Beverage Corp. with Jason Lobel of SwiftIQ

General-session presenter Charlie McIlvaine of Coen Oil Co.

Dave Woodley of Sheetz (left) with Joseph Hobson and Aaron Simpson of Maverik

General-session speaker Laurie Demeritt of The Hartman Group

Gus Olympidis of Family Express and Mickey Jamal of Chestnut Petroleum Distributors

General-session speaker Tom Kloza of OPIS

C.J. Watson of Juul Labs and Scott Hill of Jack Link’s

General-session speaker Gray Taylor of Conexxus

Drew Mize of PDI