Industry Trends – NACS
Chris Rapanick is the director of business development at NACS. Chris manages the CSX Benchmarking Database and the NACS State of the Industry Enterprise—summit, report and data submission process. He works with retailers, suppliers and other industry stakeholders to provide and analyze financial and operational data gleaned from CSX and create strategies to improve their operations and grow their businesses. Chris has spent his entire career working in retail channels on both sides of the desk. He was a store manager for Food Lion Inc. for seven years, a sales manager for Coca-Cola Enterprises in both large and small formats for eight years. Chris started work at CSX as a sales consultant in 2009. Chris earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.
He and his wife, Larisa, have three adult children and are currently enjoying their empty nest by leaving it as often as possible to travel.
