Marionnaud Group today announced an organisational transformation, aimed at strengthening its position as a leading luxury beauty retailer in Europe. The reorganisation marks a strategic shift from a market-based management structure to an integrated, unified team model across all markets.
AS Watson Group, the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer, hosted its first-ever European Hackathon in Amsterdam on 13-14 April. The 24-hour Hackathon was attended by 70 university students, who came together to tackle real-life business challenges related to Next Generation Loyalty. The participants were driven to utilise their skills, creativity, and collective expertise to develop innovative solutions that redefine the future of loyalty in the retail landscape.
Dr. Malina Ngai, CEO of AS Watson, said, “Customer loyalty is of utmost importance for a retailer, but customer expectations have been evolving, particularly among the next generation. That’s why we want to develop the next generation of loyalty, and there is no better way than having the next generation of talents propose to us.”
AS Watson Group today announced the appointments of Kulvinder Birring as CEO of Marionnaud Group and Gabriele Betti as Deputy CEO of Marionnaud Group, a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings.
Kulvinder Birring was appointed CEO of Watsons China in 2018. Before that, he had led Watsons operations as Managing Director of Malaysia and Indonesia. In his new appointment as CEO of Marionnaud Group, he will manage the Marionnaud’s portfolio of over 730 O+O (offline plus online) stores in eight markets, which is one of the leading luxury perfumeries & cosmetics retailers in Europe. Leadership team of Marionnaud, including Gabriele Betti and Emilio Leon, will work seamlessly with Kulvinder Birring in his new role.
AS Watson Group, the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer, and South Korea’s biggest beauty company Amorepacific Group signed agreement in Seoul, Korea to further strengthen the collaboration between the two companies to entice customers around Asia with K-beauty.
Experts participated in the plenary session, “The World is Changing, Consumers are Changing - We Need to Change Too” at The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Global Summit 2023 at Kyoto, Japan.
AS Watson is proud to announce the milestone of sponsoring 5,000 corrective surgeries through Operation Smile worldwide as well as launching the Women in Medicine programme.
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In response to the International Youth Day, the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer, AS Watson Group, announced its commitment to provide 200,000 job openings for young people globally by 2030.
