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The new-look Luxottica Travel Retail marketing team of (left to right) Anna Ng, Bettina Danet, Francesco d’Amelia, Averis Papastefani and Martha Galvis |
INTERNATIONAL. Luxottica Travel Retail has made a number of changes to its marketing team, including the appointment of Francesco d’Amelia as Marketing Manager Travel Retail.
D’Amelia will be responsible for the company’s global marketing activity in the channel. He brings experience in various marketing and sales roles with companies such as Vodafone, FinecoBank, Sisal and, most recently, in travel retail working for British American Tobacco as Account Manager Southern Europe Travel Retail.
He will be based in London reporting to Francis Gros, Luxottica Group Travel Retail Director, and replaces Charlotte Hamel, who moves within the Luxottica Group to the position of Global Brand Manager for the Coach licence.
Francesco d’Amelia can be contacted at francesco.d’amelia@uk.luxottica.com
Gros said: “I’m pleased to welcome Francesco on board, and look forward to his contribution as we build on the great success we’ve seen in Luxottica Travel Retail over the last few years. Our dedicated travel retail team, now nearing 20 people strong, has vast experience from within Luxottica Group and other leading travel retail brand-owners in perfume and cosmetics, liquor, tobacco and confectionery. Enriching Luxottica’s leadership in sunglasses with best practices from other categories, we are in an excellent position to continue to drive forward the sunglasses category in travel retail.”
Luxottica Travel Retail now has three regional marketing specialists and a training manager reporting to d’Amelia:
They include Bettina Danet, who is Marketing Coordinator Europe, Near East & Africa; Anna Ng, who is Marketing Coordinator Asia Pacific and Martha Galvis, Marketing Coordinator Americas. Training Manager Travel Retail Averis Papastefani oversees travel retail-specific training programmes with key travel retailers.
Gros added: “Averis’ appointment is a significant development for Luxottica Travel Retail. Her role has been created to help work with our travel retail partners to achieve our objective of making travel retail the specialist channel for sunglasses. Front-line staff are the key protagonists in any service proposition, which is even more important with such a personally-specific luxury product as sunglasses. Our new tailored training programmes will help differentiate travel retail and continue to drive growth for the category.”
