SYDNEY, Oct. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SEPHORA, the global leading omnichannel prestige beauty retailer, is thrilled to unveil the opening of three new stores as part of its expansion across Australia for 2024. These new locations— Westfield Marion, Adelaide opening October 16th, Westfield Fountain Gate, Melbourne opening October 24th and Westfield North Lakes, Brisbane opening on November 14, 2024.
Mark O'Keefe, General Manager of Sephora Australia and New Zealand, commented, "We are excited to offer our customers an immersive beauty experience where they can explore our extensive product range and engage with the latest beauty tech and digital elements. Our Sephora stores represent the perfect blend of innovation and experience, allowing our customers to immerse themselves in the world's best beauty brand. As we celebrate a decade in the Australian market, 2024 is a significant year for Sephora as we continue with our expansion with new stores in Marion; South Australia, Fountain Gate; Victoria, and North Lakes; Queensland".
The new Sephora stores are a testament to Sephora's passion for experiential retail, offering consumers a thoughtfully curated and trend-forward beauty assortment. The stores will house over 100 brands, featuring sought-after brands like Paula's Choice, Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez, and Fenty Beauty by Rihanna.
Each of the stores' Beauty & Hair Studios will offer a dynamic lineup of services, showcasing the latest product launches and brand collaborations, continuously updated to reflect the newest trends.
The grand opening festivities will feature exclusive pre-opening events from 7 am to 9 am on each launch day. Attendees will enjoy live DJ performances, engaging beauty stations, and thousands of product samples. The first 10 guests in line will get the unique opportunity to shop before the stores open to the public, and the first 100 gift bags will include the coveted tarte Amazonian Clay Face Palette valued at $69. Additional attractions include Sephora-branded merchandise, complimentary coffee, treats, and more.
Sephora invites media representatives and beauty enthusiasts to join in celebrating this exciting expansion, offering fresh inspiration and personalised beauty experiences across Australia.
Notes to Editor:
Sephora Store Openings and Pre-Opening Party Details:
Marion: Opens 9am, Wednesday, October 16, 2024. Pre-Opening Party at 7am.
Details on Sephora Events Page and Westfield Marion channels.
Fountain Gate: Opens 9am, Thursday, October 24, 2024. Pre-Opening Party at 7am.
Details on Sephora Events Page and Westfield Fountain Gate channels.
North Lakes: Opens 9am, Thursday, November 14, 2024. Pre-Opening Party at 7am.
Details on Sephora Events Page and Westfield North Lakes channels.
Sephora Spokesperson interviews available upon request.
Media contact:
Grace Powers, Hatrik House grace@hatrikhouse.com
About Sephora
Sephora is the world's leading global prestige beauty retail brand. With 52,000 passionate employees operating in 34 markets, Sephora connects customers and beauty brands within the world's most trusted and dynamic beauty community. We serve a highly engaged community of hundreds of millions of beauty followers across our global omnichannel network of more than 3,000 stores, iconic flagships, e-commerce and digital platforms, offering personalised, immersive and seamless experiences across every touchpoint. With our curation of close to 500 brands and our own label, Sephora Collection, we offer the most diverse range of prestige beauty products, tailored to our customers' needs from fragrance to make-up, haircare, skincare and beyond, as we constantly reimagine the world of prestige beauty.
Since our inception in 1969 in Limoges, France, and as part of the LVMH Group since 1997, we have been disrupting the prestige beauty retail industry. Today, we continue to break with convention to drive our purpose: to champion a world of inspiration and inclusion where everyone can celebrate their beauty.
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Sephora expands Australian network with New Store Openings across Australia in 2024
DUBAI, UAE, Oct. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 14, Li Peng, Corporate Senior Vice President and President of ICT Sales & Service of Huawei, gave his speech at Huawei GITEX 2024, titled 'Thriving Together in the Intelligent Era':
The digital economy is evolving into an intelligent economy. And it will soon become the main engine of global economic growth.
Right now, companies around the world are working hard to build the capabilities they need to succeed in this new era.
Many enterprises are taking digital transformation to the next level. They are diving deeper into production scenarios, and looking for areas where digital technology can provide greater value, even in traditional industries.
Take manufacturing, for example. With full connectivity and industrial IoT platforms, manufacturers are collecting more data than ever before, and paving the way for real-time intelligence.
Intelligent transformation is also picking up speed. More and more enterprises are using AI to boost productivity and reduce operating costs. This opens the doors for more innovate business models and a better customer experience.
For example, banks are using large AI models to generate complex user profiles in seconds. With these profiles, they can perform more targeted marketing, and issue credit more quickly. They're reshaping experience for customers, and driving new growth.
As the global economy evolves, going digital and intelligent is the clear path forward. And it's the best way to stay competitive.
But that's easier said than done. Different enterprises, industries, and regions are all at different stages of transformation. So how can we help them build the right capabilities in the way that suits them most?
That's what I would like to discuss today. I'll share the work Huawei is doing to help customers succeed, how we're enabling our local partners, and building up the digital talent ecosystem.
At Huawei, we combine our strengths in networking, storage, computing, cloud, and energy to build new digital and intelligent infrastructure.
Together with partners, we serve top customers in sectors like government, finance, electricity, transport, manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and the Internet.
We dive deep into their business scenarios, and explore the best solutions for their digital and intelligent transformation. No matter where you are in your digital journey, we can work together to help everyone succeed.
Last year, Huawei announced its All Intelligence strategy. We also released a reference architecture for the intelligent transformation of industries. It is collaborative, open, agile, and trustworthy, and can help to guide the transformation process.
In practice, the architecture is already producing results. Over the past year, we've used it to develop many industry-specific solutions. We have also published over 100 case studies for different organizations to use during their transformation process.
There are so many great success stories out there!
One example is in Cote d'Ivoire. We helped their Ministry of Transportation build a traffic analysis platform using our Intelligent Transportation System. As a result, road safety risks are lower and traffic flow has improved by more than 10%.
In addition, Huawei's "One Cloud, One Network" solution has helped 33 Middle Eastern and African countries build inclusive connectivity, covering over 1,000 government agencies. Both service efficiency and satisfaction have greatly improved.
These are just a few examples of what we've achieved together.
And none of this would be possible without our partners. Their work is critical, and we want to help our partners grow, while we work together to help our customers succeed.
At Huawei, we're committed to building a healthy, open, and mutually beneficial partner ecosystem. Our partnerships are growing fast in the enterprise market. To date, more than 47,000 partners have joined us. This year alone, our partnerships have grown by more than 18%.
We have also built 14 OpenLabs worldwide to support joint innovation with local solution partners. Together with over 30 solution partners in the UAE, we have developed more than 20 solutions to meet local industry needs.
We're not just working with large enterprises. There are so many SMEs that want to go digital and intelligent too. And we're doing everything we can to help our partners serve them more independently, easily, and effectively.
We provide our partners with scenario-based, lightweight solutions, more marketable products, and efficient digital platforms. We also provide support in R&D, sales, marketing, supply, and services, giving our partners end-to-end business enablement.
In addition, we are helping partners innovate their business and service models. For example, Huawei and BCX built a cloud management platform to serve more than 100 SMEs. This flexible cloud model helps SMEs lease or buy network services, solving their O&M challenges and reducing CAPEX by over 20%.
On the service front, we're working with partners to boost local service capabilities.
Mastery House is one of our service partners in Saudi Arabia. Over the past eight years, the company's revenue has grown by a factor of 16, and over 90% of their revenue comes from joint projects with Huawei.
By working together, Mastery House has not only achieved fast revenue growth. They have also built up the capabilities to become a leading ICT provider in Saudi Arabia.
Of course, you can't go digital or intelligent without people who have the right knowledge and skills. So we've been working hard to help build local digital talent. Together with universities around the world, we have opened a series of ICT Academies to serve local communities.
These academies have trained more than 36,000 ICT engineers and 1,000 developers in Egypt. In Saudi Arabia, over 32,000 students have received ICT training, and 6,500 professionals have obtained Huawei ICT certification.
Moving forward, we will continue to use benefits as a bridge, integrity as a foundation, and rules as a guarantee when working with our partners. By working together, we can develop more targeted and scalable solutions, and drive success in global markets.
Digital and intelligent transformation should not be a privilege for the few. It should be a benefit for all.
Huawei is ready and willing to join forces with more customers and partners. Together, we can do more, create more, and make the most of huge opportunities in this exciting new era.
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Li Peng, Corporate Senior Vice President and President of ICT Sales & Service of Huawei, gave his speech at Huawei GITEX 2024: Thriving Together in the Intelligent Era
