Sephora’s Zena Srivatsa Arnold on Her Move to Retail

28 Oct

Zena Srivatsa Arnold’s LinkedIn page reads like a meteoric rise through the blue-chip business world. Procter & Gamble, Kellogg, Google, Kimberly-Clark. Present and accounted for. What’s not on there's one of the vital formative experiences of her young profession — as a Lancôme beauty associate at a Dillard’s department store in Cincinnati. The time was the early 2000s, and Srivatsa Arnold was a young graduate armed with a level in computer science just because the dot.com scene imploded. Quite than let her mope across the house, Srivatsa Arnold’s mother drove her to the local mall and told her to search out a job. The experience turned out to be transformational. “I went into it pondering, ‘It’s retail. It’s going to be easy....

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26 Oct

WWD Honors Top Leaders and Creators within the Fashion,

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WWD Honors Top Leaders and Creators within the Fashion,

Tuesday night’s WWD Honors was stuffed with poignant acceptance speeches, pledges that many fashion and wonder corporations are on paths to even greater success, an invite to Barcelona, and a presentation from Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence. WWD awarded quite a few designers and fashion, beauty and retail corporations with WWD Honors, recognizing their significant achievement of their respective categories. While some honorees were just getting began on their business journeys, Jeff Gennette, chief executive officer of Macy’s Inc., was recognized for his unparalleled 40-year journey to the highest of the retail world as he prepares to retire in February and pass the reins to Bloomingdale’s executive Tony Spring. Gennette, who received the Edward Nardoza Creative Leadership Award, studied creative writing and...

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20 Oct

Leonard A. Lauder Honored With Retail Excellence Award –

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Leonard A. Lauder Honored With Retail Excellence Award –

A who’s who of luminaries from the retail, fashion and finance sectors turned out on Monday night to honor Leonard A. Lauder with the Retail Excellence Award cohosted by the Baker Retailing Center on the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and the Retail Leaders Circle. Lauder, who announced earlier this 12 months he’ll step down from the board of directors of the Estée Lauder Cos. when his current term expires in November, was feted by designer Tory Burch, Neiman Marcus CEO Geoffroy van Raemdonck, Saks CEO Marc Metrick and Lauder’s son, William P. Lauder and niece Jane Lauder, amongst many others, with introductory honors handled by Pfizer’s chief corporate affairs officer Sally Susman and MidOcean Partners chairman Matt Rubel. Sally...

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13 Oct

Travel Retail Resets for a ‘Recent Normal’ – WWD

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Travel Retail Resets for a ‘Recent Normal’ – WWD

CANNES, France — A latest normal. That's what travel retail beauty executives are grappling with and focused on through the recent TFWA World Exhibition and Conference. The Cannes, France-based event, held from Oct. 1 to five, was fittingly dubbed “Open World” by trade show organizers. Every little thing is now open to discussion and evaluation, as travel retail resembles nothing prefer it did in 2019, pre-coronavirus pandemic. “The patron doesn't want the identical thing as before,” said Gwendoline Bommier, director merchant perfumes and cosmetics, duty free global at Lagardère Travel Retail. There's that, coupled with today’s volatile geopolitical and economic contexts making for an uneven channel recovery, amongst other aspects. “The world has shifted dramatically since 2019,” said Alexandre Callens, president global travel retail...

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