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Glovo: Geographic Expansion
Glovo Ukraine operating as standalone entity across 40 cities with 12,000+ partners (85% SMEs) and 80,000+ couriers since 2018. Ukraine is one of Glovo's top 5 global markets despite wartime operations. Previously served as regional hub for Central Asia/Caucasus expansion.
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The leadership read
Market entry of this kind typically deepens demand for marketing leadership bench strength in the region over the following 12–18 months.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 111.1 (Hot) (up 5.2 month-on-month), Asia is at rising (+3.7pts) on signal share.
Glovo: 2 signals in the last 90 days — above the Marketing median of 1 across 23 tracked companies; 0.2% of MitchelLake's Asia signal flow; 2 tracked across 35 days.
Market entry — the MitchelLake playbook
When a company expands into a new market, the first leadership hires decide whether it lands. A selection of market entries we've run:
Market entry · Oceania
Square
Executive Search Fintech
Market entry
Dropbox
Executive Search for SaaS
Market entry · Asia
Deliveroo
Executive Search in ASEAN
Market entry · Oceania
SurveyMonkey
Managing Director APAC (first hire in region) / Country Manager
Market entry · Asia
LivePerson
Director ASEAN (first hire in region); also Head of Presales APAC
Market entry · Oceania
Etsy
Managing Director, Australia + Asia (MD APAC)
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From the MitchelLake archive
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Geographic Expansion · Americas
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Geographic Expansion · EMEA
Lovisa Holdings Ltd →Lovisa added 65 stores in FY26 H1 (6.3% growth) with expansion across key markets: Australia, South Africa, UK, Germany, US, Canada. Company identified additional growth markets including China, Vietnam, Spain, Poland. FY26 showed 20%+ revenue and net profit growth with new brand 'Jewells' launching in UK.
Leadership Change · Oceania
David Jones →Erica Berchtold appointed as new CEO of David Jones, two weeks into role. Focus on margin expansion, supplier relationship recovery, and private label development.
Product Launch · Americas
Exterro →Exterro's FTK Suite AI-powered digital forensics platform was used by the FBI in the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack investigation, demonstrating real-world deployment of its evidence processing and AI-assisted investigation tools in high-stakes law enforcement cases.
Partnership · EMEA
GSMA →GSMA partnered with French infrastructure organization Pleias to create Telco Common Corpus — a 10+ billion token open-source dataset of telecom technical literature, patents, and data to address AI model gaps in telecom domain expertise.
Leadership Change · EMEA
N26 →N26 achieved profitability following a leadership shakeup, indicating successful restructuring or strategic realignment at the fintech company.
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