From: Retail, Luxury & Consumer Club
Date: January 27, 2012
Subject: Retail & Luxury Goods Club - New Year Update & GS Documents
Dear all,
A belated Happy New Year to you!
The year for the RLG has started off well. Our event with the Goldman Sachs Pan-European Luxury & Retail Team this Monday was a great success - not a seat left free in LT9 as Lucy Baldwin and Will Hutchings delved into their encyclopedic knowledge of the sector. We were particularly pleased to see so many alumni in the audience.
If you missed the event, stay tuned for a blog by Ben Zingraff with the takeaways from the evening. But in the interim, we have attached the relevant presentation, and Lucy & Will's 6 January note on the phenomenon of luxury travel driving sales in the sector.
We have a lot of great events coming up for this term.
Congratulations to those who were selected for the LVMH Rendez-Vous on 30 January. 28 students were selected out of a record 60 applications for the day-long executive-level seminar.
On 22 February, Emily Tate, CFO of Fat Face (a Bridgepoint portfolio company), will discuss the nuances of Private Equity investment in Retail.
On 28 February, we'll be welcoming Eugene Nikiforov, founder and Chief Product Officer of Ixtens, for an update on current trends in eCommerce and cloud-based technology infrastructure.
On 29 February, COO of Dixon's Retail, Sebastian James, will be presenting on "Rescuing a Ruined Business". Sebastian is a former BCG consultant who has also been CEO of Synergy Insurance Services Ltd., and Strategy Head at Mothercare plc. In close proximity to Whitehall, he also led last year's independent Capital Review of the School System for the Secretary of State for Education. The presentation will be followed by a small dinner with Sebastian. Application details to follow.
Stay tuned for a couple more exciting C-suite speakers we have lined up before Spring Break - we are just confirming a few details that we will share as soon as we can.
Finally - we hear that a new entrepreneurial opportunity is coming through for those of you with innovative luxury business ideas. If yours is one of the best ideas from the LBS community, yours will be a shortcut to the funding, mentorship, expertise and publicity needed to get your business off the ground. Dust off your value curves, review your notes from Strategic Innovation, and get your teams' creative juices flowing. And watch this space for further details.
In the meantime, we've attached a copy of the Walpole Entrepreneurs Business Forum Report from last autumn - featuring our own Jeff Skinner, nontheless!
All the best,
The R&LG Executive Committee
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