Our next RPIA Annual Meeting (Members Only) will be held
 in January, 2009 in Dallas at the Dallas Marketplace Center. 
Details will follow in October of 2008.
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Our last annual meeting was held on
February 24 to February 26, 2008, in Cincinnati, OH
 

The RPIA annual meeting topics included

• Buying Opportunities
• Health and Business Insurance
• Credit Card program
• Retail Merchandising
• Going Green
• A “show and tell” session – bring an interesting product or idea
• A breakout Wholesalers session
• Rebate program discussion
• New programs and beta programs 

Best of all, we had Bakery Tours in Cincinnati on Sunday and Monday from 12Noon to 5PM and an optional tour on Tuesday from 12:30 to 4:00 of manufacturing plants. 

Tours - Theme - Merchandising

• Graeter's Bakery Retail Store

• Busken’s Bakery Retail Store

• Servatii's Bakery Retail Store

• RPIA’s “Special Products” Bakery

• Taste of Elegance - Store & New Plant

• Dorothy Lane Markets - Midwest pricing at its finest!
• RT Bundy's headquarters and factory
• Buskens plant tour
• Servattis plant tour
• Graeters plant tour