With the economy taking an upturn it’s a great time to rethink your retail strategy and how to take advantage of the growth. Global Beauty Exchange has engaged the industry’s most well thought out leaders in beauty retail to talk to you candidly about what’s in store for the remainder of 2011 and how to properly plan for 2012.
We will take a 360 degree view of the industry, including:
- Consumer product trends from concept to counter, packaging to texture.
- Successful salon and spa channels - how to create successful point of purchase displays and in-store merchandizing that generate true profit
- Operations - making sure your business whether big or small is positioned for growth.
- Multi-channel beauty retail – who is succeeding in the beauty arena and how are they doing it.
Then ask your questions to the panelists themselves: Kelly Kovack, Co-Founder of Purpose Built NYC the industry’s leading beauty branding firm; Norma Knudsen, Executive Vice President of Merchandising for the Regis Corporation, the largest hair salon chain in the world, with over 11,000 salons; Larry Silvestri, Chief Operating Officer of Mario Tricoci which operates 19 salons and spas throughout Chicago and Kansas; and Donna Tarantino, Director of Beauty, Health & Fitness at ShopNBC, is an innovator, thought-leader and tour-de-force in the multichannel retailing industry with 17 years of extensive experience in the category. The panel’s moderator is Pierce Mattie, Chief Executive Officers at Pierce Mattie Public Relations, Inc. which has been named as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America by Inc. magazine for several years in a row.