COPRA Ball 2011

Click this picture to see all the pictures from the 2011 COPRA Ball. Over 700 guests, a record number for the event, attended this year’s COPRA Ball (Cosmetic & Perfumery Retailers Association) held on Monday November 7 2011 at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel in central London. Many believe that the Ball offers the best networking opportunity available in the industry and so guests always arrive promptly to mingle with friends and colleagues for the generous champagne reception which commences the evening’s celebrations. In her welcoming Tracy van Heusden, Chairman of COPRA, announced that QVC and Ulster Stores de Gruchy were the latest retailers to join the organisation She also paid tribute to the career to Per Neuman, who is retires in December (2011) after 23 years as UK Managing Director of The Estée Lauder Companies. It has been announced earlier in the evening that Tracy had accepted the invitation to remain Chairman for another year. The COPRA Ball raises money for the industry’s cancer charity Look Good...Feel Better and many superb auction and raffle prizes were on offer. Photographs by Matt Wreford. Contact: matt@mattwreford.net

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    Tracy Van Heusden, COPRA Chairman (and Senior Beauty Buyer, House of Fraser) welcomes guests to the Ball

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    Mike Ramseyer, mymarketmonitor.com, Roddy Zevla, Buying Manager Prestige Beauty at Tesco, and Alex Shaffi and Paola Schmid of Shaffi & Schmid Enterprises

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    Hoopers’ Anne Horton, Managing Director and Philip Steer, Group Operations and Perfumery Controller with Harry Ganz, Director of The Garden Pharmacy

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    Jackie Armitage of Elizabeth Arden (second on the left), with (L/R) John Lewis’ Alan Wright, Jo Howard and Jason Wilary-Attew, Vice Chairman of COPRA

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    P&G Prestige’s Helen Russell, Ken Rushton and Ann-Marie Humphreys

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    Elizabeth Bruce, Sarah Archibald and Charmain Stanton of Debenhams

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    Lorraine Wilson-Morris, Esprit Magazine, Gary Willcox and Jo Malone of Jo Loves and Natalie Day, The Fragrance Foundation

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    Mavala’s Jonathan Hodge, Lyn Gray, Carol Kolimbarides and David Chapman

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    Jacqui Ripley, Freelance Journalist, Tom Southgate, lookfantastic.com, Siobhan McDermott, feelunique.com and Emma Hardie, creator of Emma Hardie skincare

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    Barbara Wallis, Fashion Fair Cosmetics, Sarah Simpson and Melissa Hay of 2 Breathe Creative, Marcus Appleton, Debenhams and Anne Mari McClintock, Oldrids

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    Harrods’ Andrew Bale and Annalise Quest (General Merchandise Manager for Beauty and COPRA Vice Chairman), Stephanie Sherman, Origins and Darren Potter, Aveda

  • 12:

    Gary Willcox, Mark Tranter, Beauty Buyer. Selfridges,Jayne Demuro, Beauty Buyer, Selfridges, Jo Malone and David Walker-Smith, Director of Beauty and Menswear

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    Designer Parfum’s Dilesh Mehta, Paraq Vidyarthi, Patrick Blank and Gaurav Parekh

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    Xavier Gammattei, Cartier, Linda Key, Esprit Magazine and Nigel Alderman, Puig

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    Suzie Abel, with Samantha Nesbitt, Group Perfumery & Cosmetics Buyer, Ulster Stores, Jenny Clark, Head of Buying, Ulster Stores, John Marquis, Store Director, de Gruchy and Amanda Gulliver, Assistant Perfumery Buyer, Jarrolds

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    Jacqui Garbutt, Perfumery & Cosmetics Buyer, Hills department store, Tracy Vince, Perfumery & Cosmetics Buyer Oldrids, Debbie Elliott, Perfumery & Cosmetics Buyer, Camp Hopson, and Martin Trumper, Camp Hopson

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    Kent Cosmetics’ Alan Kent, Lorraine Kent and John Roach

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    Robert Fuge, Perfect Sense, Stirling Murray, The Red Tree and Mike Gabriel, Perfect Sense

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    Ken and Maggie Lamacraft, Ken Lamacraft Marketing, Annette Close, Australian Bodycare and Bob Graham, Ken Lamacraft Marketing

  • 20:

    Suzie Abel praising Tracy’s role as Chairman of COPRA

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    ‘Master of marketing’ Per Neuman retires in December after 23 years as UK Managing Director of The Estée Lauder Companies

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    Great entertainment was provided by Beverley Knight (pictured) and Lemar