About Us - Nini S. Suwanto

NINI S. SUWANTO, Retail Advisor.

• Graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Degree majoring in Marketing and Computing from Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, in 1993. 
• Nini started her career as a Membership Manager at Imperial Country Club, Lippo Karawaci, from 1994-1995. 
• In mid 1995, she worked as a Client Service Manager for Asia Data Research (ADR), a Germany Based research Company that specialized in data collection on market share electronics products. Her main task was to support Country Manager in providing service and analysis to clients and retailers, i.e. the interpretation of data, preparation of reports to clients, preparation on special analysis and ad hoc inquiries required by clients and retailers. 
• She then pursued her career at The Clubstore, a membership shopping store, from 1996-2000 as a Merchandise Manager. She was involved in the process of pre-opening stores for both The Clubstore outlets in Jakarta and in Medan. She was in charge as a Buyer for several departments, such as Produce, Food, Households, Health & Beauty, OTC, Stationaries, Toys, and Business Machine. 
• In the beginning of 2000, she resigned from The Clubstore to join IGA (International Grocers Alliance), the world’s largest voluntary retail food network based in Chicago with operations in 40 countries. As a Junior Country Manager, she was responsible in providing consultation, coordination and in conducting retail projects, trainings and public seminars on various functional areas of retail food industry in Indonesia.