FAQs

The CSP Cold Vault Forum is an annual industry event that brings together convenience store retailers and suppliers to focus on the cold vault category. This includes packaged beverage strategy, cold vault displays, refrigerated drinks merchandising, revenue boosting ideas, technology, and more. The forum features expert speakers, consumer behavior analysis, and innovative approaches to cold vault category management to help retailers optimize.

The CSP Cold Vault Forum covers all major packaged beverage categories found in convenience store cold vaults, including carbonated soft drinks, bottled water, sports drinks, energy drinks, ready-to-drink coffee and tea, enhanced water, juice drinks, and more. Sessions address product placement strategies, consumer trends, and merchandising best practices across these refrigerated drink segments.

The CSP Cold Vault Forum is ideal for convenience store operators, category managers, foodservice directors, operations executives, and anyone responsible for beverage strategy and sales. Suppliers, equipment manufacturers, and service providers in the cold vault industry will also benefit from attending to connect with retail decision-makers and showcase their solutions.

Retailer:
An individual who works, manages or owns a retail outlet in the convenience and petroleum industry.

Registration fees are complimentary for those who have received an invitation, thanks to the support of our sponsors. Please contact Mike Marino at michael.marino@informa.com for more information.

Sponsor:
An individual who works for a company that is a sponsor of the conference.

If you are not yet a sponsor and would like additional information, please contact Brandy Mulcahy at fssponsorrelations@informa.com.

Cold Vault Category Expansion: The cold vault category continues to drive convenience store profitability, with beverages accounting for a significant share of in-store sales.
Emerging Trends in Cold Vault: Discover strategies to maximize cold vault performance, including popular grab-and-go refrigerated drinks, in-store traffic impact, and optimizing display for maximum sales as shifting consumer demands for healthier, functional, and premium beverages are reshaping the cold vault landscape.
Networking Opportunities: Connect with beverage category leaders, suppliers, and peers to gain actionable insights and build partnerships that drive growth.

Connect with the top retail firms, innovators, and suppliers at the CSP Cold Vault Forum during curated one-to-one meetings or over fun networking activities to gain proven best practices and build partnerships that drive growth in the beverage category.

With expert-led discussions from the top retailing firms in the industry, CSP Cold Vault Forum attendees will learn how to expand their store offerings with data-driven strategies that maximize sales, improve merchandising, and enhance customer experiences and loyalty.

Please be vigilant if approached by any company representing themselves as the housing provider for the Cold Vault Forum. These companies will offer to make hotel reservations within the room block on your behalf or misrepresent themselves as agents of the hotel. Please note that Cold Vault Forum does not rent, share or sell your contact information to any third parties.

The companies that we have been made aware of are Convention Housing Planners Corp, Expo Housing Services and Exhibitors Housing Management. Please let us know as soon as possible if another company reaches out to you.

Cold Vault Forum is not utilizing the services of any housing agent or third party and the host hotel will never reach out to attendees to solicit booking rooms. Please only make your accommodations using the link in your registration confirmation email.

Complimentary wireless internet will be provided throughout the meeting space. Login details will be provided during the meeting.

The Cold Vault Forum meeting attire is business casual.

We want everyone who comes to CSP Cold Vault Forum to have a great experience. Whether you are attending, speaking, exhibiting, sponsoring or working with or for us, our focus is on creating an environment and experience that everyone can participate in and benefit from.

Informa is a leading international business-to-business information services group that connects people with knowledge to help them learn more, know more, and do more. Through its Informa Connect division, the company delivers content-led live and on-demand events, training, and specialist content to businesses and professionals across various industries.

As part of the Informa family, CSP benefits from global reach, industry expertise, and the infrastructure necessary to host gatherings that assemble key decision-makers and financial partners in environments specifically designed for meaningful business connections and actionable insights across the convenience retail landscape.

Informa Connect is dedicated to creating experiences that deliver positive impact while minimizing environmental footprint. Through the FasterForward sustainability program, events like ours will move faster to become zero-waste and net-zero carbon by 2030.

In the future, we will actively help partners, customers, and wider markets achieve their own sustainability goals. By attending CSP Cold Vault Forum, participants will not just gain valuable industry knowledge and connections, but they will also support a more sustainable future for their industries.