About
Our Team
Emma Herrod
Managing editor
Emma is a senior retail and technology writer and editorial leader with almost two decades of experience commentating on e-commerce, omnichannel innovation and digital transformation. She has been instrumental in the launch and development of key industry platforms and publications including InternetRetailing, eDelivery and the RetailX Sustainability Report.
Lara Piras
Writer / Analyst
Lara is a senior copywriter and editor, as well as a trend and insight analyst and strategist. Her expertise lies in creative copywriting, editing, cultural insight research and analysis (WGSN, Stylus, The Future Laboratory), as well as brand repositioning and new market exploration, which she has produced for companies such as Nike, ASOS, adidas, IKEA, and Peroni.
Trefor Moss
Writer / Analyst
Trefor is a journalist, writer and content creator. He was formerly a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, for which he covered China and before that Southeast Asia, and also worked as a London-based business reporter for the Journal covering some of Europe’s biggest companies.
Debbie Stowe
Writer / Analyst
Author and freelance journalist Debbie Stowe started covering “other Europe” — Portugal, Greece, the Balkans (Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia), Luxembourg, Iceland and Cyprus — for the AIM Group in 2019. Based in Romania, she graduated in English literature from University College London and Periodical Journalism from City University, London. Her business journalism has included writing and editing for Euromonitor and several Bucharest-based outlets, and she has also authored travel guidebooks for Thomas Cook Publishing on destinations from the Maldives to Mediterranean cruising to Manchester.
Pavel Marceux
Executive editor
Pavel is managing editor of AIM Group Marketplaces Report and the rest of the AIM Group’s content. Following his MA at Edinburgh University, he worked in a number of countries, including Turkey and Japan. Pavel has honed his skills and knowledge at several publishing houses and consumer markets research firms.
Peter M. Zollman
Editor-in-Chief
Peter launched the AIM Group in 1998 after stints in interactive television, broadcasting, newspapers and news services. He is one of the world’s leading experts on recruitment, automotive and real estate advertising. He’s executive editor and publisher of AIM Group Marketplaces Report.
Recommerce Intelligence
The AIM Group is excited to announce the launch of Recommerce Intelligence, a new service servicing the global recommerce industry.
Recommerce Intelligence analyzes market positions, trends and challenges in the growing market for the sale of secondhand, refurbished, returned and surplus inventory globally. (We’re also launching RecommerceBuzz, a conference about recommerce. More below.)
We’re covering a complete range of issues in recommerce — legislation, new sales models, fashion-furniture-phones, and more.
But we’ll emphasize “asset-light” businesses — the b-to-c and c-to-c marketplaces that generally don’t own inventory. They succeed by orchestrating trust, liquidity, logistics and customer acquisition.
Why? Because the interests of asset-light companies overlap strongly across verticals: customer acquisition and retention; trust and quality; logistics and reverse logistics; payments and finance, and more.
The fast-growing, wide-ranging recommerce industry encompasses all sorts of goods – baby products, luxury clothing, phones, computers, sneakers, watches and more.
It also includes companies providing financial management, tax compliance, cross-border operations, authentication, identity verification, logistics and shipping, and related tools.
The AIM Group
The AIM Group provides global business intelligence services — news and analysis, conferences and consulting — covering the automotive, real estate, recruitment and horizontal marketplaces and classified-advertisings segments. And now, we’ll bring you valuable information about recommerce, too. We’ve been at this for a while — almost 28 years — and have some of the deepest connections and contacts in the business. We know our stuff. And you should, too. Find out more at aimgroup.com
Watch for details soon about RecommerceBuzz — the natural addition to our successful AutosBuzz and RecBuzz conferences. Sign up for updates and don’t miss exciting announcements!
Katja Riefler
Conference director
Kate Kavanagh
Sponsorship sales
Jess Barkulis
Marketing