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PART IX · SERIES LHL-P · GROUP VI · DEFINING OPERATORS & STEWARDS

Vittorio Radice

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PartPart IX · Group VI · Defining Operators & Stewards · English Master
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ClassificationGroup VI · Defining Operators & Stewards.
Attribution boundarythe turnaround involved many designers and merchants; Radice receives strategic/executive credit.

1 · POSITION

Italian retail executive associated with the 1990s reinvention of Selfridges as a design-led, experience-focused contemporary department store.

2 · KEY POINT

As Selfridges chief executive in the 1990s, Radice became a principal executive author of its turnaround.

3 · KEY POINT

The strategy emphasized design, events, architecture and experience rather than conventional merchandising alone.

4 · KEY POINT

Selfridges again became a destination even for visitors without a specific shopping list.

5 · KEY POINT

The revival can be understood as recovering Harry Selfridge's original retail-theatre DNA.

6 · KEY POINT

Radice represents a modern department-store turnaround author: neither founder nor architect, but executive interpreter of an old institution.

7 · KEY POINT

His broader European retail career strengthens the independent People case.

8 · KEY POINT

Classification: Group VI · Defining Operators & Stewards.

9 · KEY POINT

Attribution boundary: the turnaround involved many designers and merchants; Radice receives strategic/executive credit. ## Sources

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