Don Caudill

Category Manager- Cooler
Love's

Don Caudill is the Cooler Category Manager at Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores where he oversees all areas of Packaged Beverages for the 650-store chain headquartered in Oklahoma City.  Some of his areas of responsibility include creating multi-year category roles & strategies, pricing & promotion, and plan-o-gram building.  

Don has attained 5 years of c-store industry knowledge at Love's, beginning his career in store operations.  He holds a Bachelor's of Business Administration degree from the University of Oklahoma.  When Don is not working on keeping Love's stocked with the latest and greatest beverages, he enjoys spending time with his growing family or doing some sort of physical activity, i.e. playing sports, exercising, family walk.

Format: Case Study Case Study
General topic presenting lessons learned start to finish.
Format: Expert-Expert Interview Expert-Expert Interview
Replaces fireside chat or single presenter format. Must be known industry expert or presentation of robust data.
Format: Ignite Ignite
Slides run automatically keeping speaker pacing. Keeps session moving.
Format: Kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope
One topic through the eyes of different functional teams (e.g. supply chain, store ops, frontline, finance, etc.)
Format: Lightning Lightning
Moderated Q&A with small panel with efforts to drive diverse perspective; after 3 minutes on question, buzzer sounds and move to next question; forces people to be brief and clear on answers.
Format: Masterclass Masterclass
Single topic session which is a solo presenter and acts more like an university lecture. Must include multiple media, audience interaction, etc.
Format: Great Debate: Point Counterpoint Great Debate: Point Counterpoint
Facilitator stimulates point/counterpoint debate on key industry topic.
Format: Roundtables Roundtables
Facilitated discussion. Limited use of slides or video to set-up topic.
Format: Think You Know Me? Think You Know Me?
One group is polled on a topic, and then the other has to guess the outcomes, as a stimulant for discussion.
Format: Workshop Workshop
Traditional small group classroom style format.

Speaking at:

PacBev Blueprint: Optimizing Space, Trends, Pricing, and Promotions

This comprehensive deep dive into the PacBev category will start with current research and trends on the space, followed by iniatives and tactics underway from multiple retailers to energize the...
Category Management
Format: Ignite Ignite
 
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