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February 2025
Domaine Bousquet (A)
By John Mullins
It was Friday, January 21, 2011. Anne Bousquet and her husband Labid Ameri were in a quandary over what to do about the bombshell that Anne’s father Jean had just dropped in their laps. The couple had moved to Argentina 22 months earlier to join Anne’s father in the winery business he had starte...
February 2025
Domaine Bousquet (B)
By John Mullins
After resolving the January 2011 blow-up with her father Jean, Anne Bousquet and her husband Labid Ameri overcame every crisis that was thrown at them. The company was seeing encouraging signs about the potential to grow their sales in the United States, the world’s largest market for wine, and ha...
February 2025
Oyster becomes a unicorn: fundraising for an impact-driven enterprise
By Luisa Alemany, Nicholas Andreou, Ioannis Ioannou, Nick Mickshik
In April 2022, just two years since launch, global employment platform Oyster announced it had achieved a valuation in excess of $1 billion, giving it unicorn status, after closing a $150 million Series C round. Oyster’s co-founders, Tony Jamous and Jack Mardack, put a social-impact mission fro...
December 2024
Facing the Retail Apocalypse: Majid Al Futtaim’s Digital Transformation (A)
By Michael Jacobides, Dalbert Ma, Aryan Mittal, Konstantinos Trantopoulos
In just a few decades Majid Al Futtaim (“the Group”) had established an empire boasting major shopping malls, successful retail chains and popular entertainment centres across the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa (MENA) region. By 2020, however, its competitive landscape was changing fast, wi...
December 2024
Building Majid Al Futtaim’s Phygital Future: Orchestrating a Retail Ecosystem (B)
By Michael Jacobides, Dalbert Ma, Konstantinos Trantopoulos
Majid Al Futtaim (“the Group”) is an empire of shopping malls, retail chains and entertainment centres operating across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The Majid Al Futtaim ecosystem comprises operating companies Majid Al Futtaim Retail (operating bricks-and-mortar stores, such as Carrefour, a...