Luxury brands

• Overview
• Programme
• Who should attend?
• Venue
• Choice of accommodation
• Participating companies

2007 events

• Retail
• Asia Pacific
• Consumer Insights
• Luxury Brands
• WM3
• Congress 2007
• Panel Research
• Qualitative
• Fragrance

Luxury –
what's it all about?

There was a time when the term ‘Luxury’ was applied to an exclusive group of products, targeted at an ‘exclusive’ group of people but nowadays even teabags and toothpaste can be called ‘luxury’.

Is the industry at risk of becoming a victim of its own success?

Dinner sponsor

Michele Norsa

CEO and Group Managing Director, Salvatore Ferragamo

Graduating with first class honours in Business Administration from the Università Cattolica, Milan, in 1971, Michele Norsa is, since October 2nd, CEO and Group Managing Director of Salvatore Ferragamo Italia.

Before this, he was General Director at Valentino Fashion Group S.p.A from July 2005 and CEO of the Valentino Group from May 2002. Starting from 1997 he worked with Marzotto Spa, where he was General Director Apparel Sector, Chairman of Marzotto USA and Chairman of Marzotto France. From 1994 to 1997, he was President and CEO of Benetton Sportsystem Active and, earlier still, from 1985 to 1993, he worked in Sandys (Sergio Tacchini), where he held the role of Ceo of the group.

Between 1976 and 1985 he has been president of Rizzoli Book Division and Chairman of Sansoni. Previously at Rizzoli he had been appointed to different posts in Buenos Aires, Geneva, New York. Michele Norsa has been for the last four years Vice Chairman of Sistema Moda Italia.

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