Diane Brisebois, President & CEO RCC | Frank Lavin Export Now, | Marc Fortin, President CCCD Quebec

In this episode Michael LeBlanc is starting to address the COVID-19 crisis and it’s impact on the retail industry with a mix of episodes interviewing retail advocates, thought leaders, strategists and retailers themselves as we all work together to get our arms around this shock to world. First up Diane Brisebois, President & CEO of Retail Council of Canada is my special guest. After 25 years serving the retail community in Canada Diane and her team’s substantial skills are being put to the ultimate test. Next, live from Singapore Frank Lavin, Chairman and Founder of Export Now returns to the podcast to update us on the Chinese market as they get their arms around the COVID-19 crisis and start to see daylight, yielding important lesson and opportunities for retailers our of what Frank describes as a “tornado of bad news”. Finally Marc Fortin, President of Retail Council/CCCD Quebec joins me from his home office in Montreal. We hone in on the Province of Quebec and the work Marc and his team is doing to support and advocate for retailers, and how key connections to government will leverage Quebec’s food industry to get food onto grocers shelves in innovative and bold new ways