L’Oréal Travel Retail makes key appointments: Yannick Raynaud to head up Americas business

Yannick Raynaud

Yannick Raynaud

Yannick Raynaud has been appointed L’Oréal Travel Retail Americas Managing Director succeeding Javier Labarta. Raynaud has wide experience in the Americas market, having started her career with L’Oréal Paris and Maybelline in Latin America in 1998, first in Venezuela then in Brazil.

In 2006, she moved as Managing Director for La Roche Posay in the USA. Since November 2012, Yannick Raynaud was Managing Director of the Active Cosmetics Division in the United Kingdom & Ireland. L’Oreal says that she is highly respected for her leadership and her passion for people coupled with innovative ways to drive growth in transforming and adapting organizations and skills to a world undergoing constant change.

Her appointment became effective on Sept. 1, 2016.

In another key personnel change, Emmanuel Goulin has been appointed L’Oréal Travel Retail Asia Pacific Managing Director succeeding Eva Yu. Goulin started his career in 2000 with Lancôme in the United Kingdom before joining the marketing team of Biotherm International. In 2005, he joined Travel Retail Europe and became Division Manager for Travel Retail Asia Pacific from 2008 to 2010.

Emmanuel Goulin

Emmanuel Goulin

A “dynamic leader, Goulin spent 2 years in Japan as Deputy General Manager of Shu Uemura and has been General Manager, Fragrance Division, France since 2012.

Vincent Boinay, L’Oréal Travel Retail Managing Director, comments: “Emmanuel Goulin and Yannick Raynaud will be responsible for the development of L’Oréal Brands – from Luxury to Mass Market and from DermoCosmetics to Haircare – in their travel retail zone. Both will continue to reinforce the L’Oréal expertise in this channel and will contribute to L’Oréal Travel Retail expansion in close partnership with all our business partners.”