The Intercontinental Group of Department Stores (IGDS) is pleased to announce the following appointments: Gloria Dix as Executive Director, effective August 2026, and Carlos Marin Rangel, CEO of Liverpool, Mexico, as the new President of IGDS.

Gloria succeeds Werner Studer, who is retiring after 30 years of dedicated leadership and service to IGDS. Carlos succeeds André Maeder, as President of IGDS, who stepped down after five years in the role.

We warmly welcome Gloria and Carlos to IGDS and look forward to this new chapter, while expressing our sincere gratitude to André and Werner for their lasting contributions to the IGDS community.

When IGDS was founded in 1946, the world looked very different. Today, the spirit of collaboration, trust, curiosity, and friendship that this association was founded on, remains our greatest strength as we look toward the future together. That spirit has carried this organisation through eight decades. Through generations of leaders. Through enormous and sometimes disorienting change.  And through many moments when department stores were declared a little too hastily, as it turned out - a thing of the past. 

Yet, here we are. And together, we will continue to shape the future of this industry.