FT Business of Luxury Summit 2013
 

Day One - Monday 3 June

08.30
Registration
 
09.30
Chairman
Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times

Opening Keynote: The Power of Luxury

Opening Keynote Address: The Power of Luxury
Karel de Gucht, Commissioner for Trade, European Commission

10.00
Macro-economics: What the global economy means for luxury, and how it will affect power structure
Gavyn Davies, OBE, Chairman, Fulcrum Asset Management
Huw Pill, Chief European Economist, Goldman Sachs
Moderator: Martin Wolf, CBE, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

11.00
Break

11.30
The Politics of Global Luxury
Keynote: Alexis Babeau, Managing Director of Luxury, Kering (Formerly PPR)

Panel:
Carlos Falcó, Marqués de Griñón, Executive Chairman, Circulo Fortuny
Mark Henderson, Chairman, Gieves & Hawkes
James Kynge, Principal, China Confidential
Maurizio Tamagnini, CEO, Italian Strategic Fund
Moderator: Vanessa Friedman, Fashion Editor, Financial Times

12.30
Research: Spotlight on Online
Armand de Milleville, Vice President, Head of Merchant Services France & Netherlands, American Express
Moderator:  Scheherazade Daneshkhu, Paris Correspondent, Financial Times

13.00
Lunch

14.30
Case Studies : The Best Ownership Model for Maximising Profits and Power
Jerome Griffith, President & CEO, Tumi Holdings
Christophe Navarre, CEO, Moët Hennessy
Dario Rinero, CEO, Poltrona Frau Group
Moderator: John Studzinski, CBE, Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group

15.30
Redrawing the Map of Luxury Retailing in Vienna
René Benko, Founder and Chairman, Signa (Developer of the Golden Quarter, Vienna)

15.50
Break

16.10
Cross-border Collaborations as Effective Power Play
Jean-Marc Loubier, President & CEO, Fung Brands
Wesley Card, CEO, The Jones Group
Sanjiv Mehta, Chairman & CEO, The East India Company
Antoine Belge, Head of Consumer Brands & Retail Equity Group Research, HSBC
Julia Calabrese, CEO, McArthurGlen
Moderator: Andrew Hill, Management Editor, Financial Times

17.10
Closing Keynote: Building a new market
Andrew Rosen, CEO, Theory & Helmut Lang
in conversation with 
Vanessa Friedman, Fashion Editor, Financial Times

17.40
Close

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