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Huda Kattan Shares Star Billing with Sir Richard Branson at The Retail Summit

Beauty powerhouse Huda Kattan will certainly sign up with Sir Richard Branson in headlining The Retail Summit, a new business event for C-level sellers including an unrivalled excellent align of speakers occurring at Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai.

The founder and CEO of Huda Appeal, among the most successful and fastest expanding new brands to be released this decade, will certainly be gone along with by her sis Mona Kattan, founder and also global president of the cosmetics line, that will certainly take to the stage of The Retail Top to talk about how their early fostering of social media sites platforms such as YouTube and also Instagram aided support their stratospheric success.

With billionaire Beauty powerhouse and also Virgin Team Owner Sir Richard Branson currently verified to headline the inaugural occasion in Dubai, delegates will certainly hear from greater than 80 speakers to discover just how electronic interruption and also moving consumer expectations are driving a profound change in retail.

Held in partnership with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Meydan One from 13-14 February 2019, The Retail Summit will certainly combine a new generation of merchants who are delivering a winning combination of impressive service and ground-breaking use of technology to supply remarkable shopping experiences.

With a history as a skillfully skilled cosmetics musician to high account star and also VIP clients, Huda Kattan launched her Huda Beauty blog in 2010, complied with by her YouTube channel, Facebook and Instagram accounts. Today she is among the world's most adhered to on Instagram with 28.3 million followers.

In 2013, the Huda Appeal cosmetics line was released with a first collection of false eyelashes offered exclusively at Sephora Dubai Mall, as well as has since broadened into a complete series of makeup products which have actually ended up being instantaneous record-breakers around the world.

Sir Richard Branson and also the Kattan sis will certainly all speak on the very first day of The Retail Summit (13 February). With greater than 800 guests prepared for, the occasion has been created for worldwide CEOs and elderly teams, uniting the retail community's brightest minds to take a look at the latest thinking about how to win in today's hyper-volatile landscape.

Other industry heavyweights who have confirmed their participation in the event include:

H.E. Hamad Buamim, President and CEO of Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry;

Fahad Kazim, Vice President of Meydan Malls, Meydan Group;

Jo Malone, Founder, Jo Loves;

Julie Hamilton, SVP, Chief Customer & Commercial Leadership Officer, Coca-Cola;

Massimo Piombini, CEO, Balmain;

Lyndon Cormack, Co-Founder, Herschel Supply Company;

Patrick Chalhoub, Co-CEO, Chalhoub Group;

Ken Meyer, EVP, Whole Foods; and

Chris Davis, VP Global Marketing, New Balance.
The Retail Summit is sustained by event companions Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Sector and also Meydan One; other partners include Xpandretail, KPMG, BJSS, Cegid, CBRE and also Lava Minutes.

Captions:

1. Huda and Mona Kattan will certainly talk at The Retail Top regarding their stratospheric success in releasing cosmetics line Huda Charm

2. Sir Richard Branson, billionaire entrepreneur and Creator of the Virgin Group, is a heading speaker at The Retail Summit

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