Roundtable 2 - Staying Resilient: Protecting Margin as Freight, Packaging and Labour Costs Rise

Rising freight, procurement, packaging, raw-material and labour costs are squeezing retail margins across the region, and much of the cost base sits outside a retailer's control. This roundtable gives supply chain, procurement and finance leaders space to compare how they are recovering costs without losing customers: from supplier negotiations and dynamic pricing to packaging changes, efficiency gains and labour-saving automation, with lessons from manufacturers managing raw-material price swings.