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Simon van Loon has been appointed commercial director of Van...
Simon van Loon has been appointed commercial director of Van Lier, the Dutch men's footwear brand. He will be in charge of sales throughout the company's distribution network. Van Loon succeeds his father, Jan van Loon, who held this position for nearly 20 years and saw its transformation from a ...
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Hans-Hermann Deters will be joining the executive board of Ara...
Hans-Hermann Deters will be joining the executive board of Ara Shoes as of Aug. 1, filling a new position where he will have responsibility for marketing, distribution and sales. The 51-year-old was most recently the chief executive of Kettler, the leading German manufacturer of fitness equipment, tennis tables and playgrounds. ...
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Eduardo Smaniotto, who has been export manager of Dumond for...
Eduardo Smaniotto, who has been export manager of Dumond for five years, has left the Paquetà group to work for Priority, another Brazilian group that owns the West Coast and Cravo & Canela brands. With 18 years of experience in the shoe sector, he has joined Priority to supervise sales ...
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Richard L. Markee has been named to the board of...
Richard L. Markee has been named to the board of directors at Collective Brands for a three-year term. He is the executive chairman at Vitamin Shoppe, where he was the chief executive until April 4. The 58-year-old has also held leadership positions with Babies ‘R' Us and Toys ‘R' Us.
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Mike Sorabella has been chosen to be the new chief...
Mike Sorabella has been chosen to be the new chief executive of Shoebuy.com after the sudden departure of Scott Savitz from the company. He will be leading all strategies and operations of Shoebuy as well as its sister sites, Bagsbuy.com and Outletbuy.com. Sorabella previously was the chief financial officer for ...
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Rino Mastrotto has been elected chairman of Unic, the Italian...
Rino Mastrotto has been elected chairman of Unic, the Italian tanners' association, succeeding Graziano Balducci for the next two years. The 64-year-old entrepreneur oversees a group bearing his family name with an annual turnover of €250 million and a staff of 1,100 people. Besides its five tanneries at Arzignago in ...
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Rebecaa Blair, who has worked for John Varvatos, Juicy Couture,...
Rebecaa Blair, who has worked for John Varvatos, Juicy Couture, Sergio Rossi, Betsy Johnson and Tory Burch, has been hired by Schwartz & Benjamin as president of its Diane von Fürstenberg footwear division
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Joe Filipas, who has worked for Hi-Tec Sports, Columbia and...
Joe Filipas, who has worked for Hi-Tec Sports, Columbia and Sorel, has joined Wolverine World Wide as senior footwear developer for its newly acquired Chaco brand
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Red Wing Shoe Company opened a European head office in...
Red Wing Shoe Company opened a European head office in Amsterdam at the start of July. The American group has been trading in the Netherlands and in other European countries for the last 10 years, but its rapid growth in the last five years called for an expanded European team ...
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Crocs is now directly managing the distribution of its shoe...
Crocs is now directly managing the distribution of its shoe collections in Portugal and Slovakia. Before, Crocs had been selling its product line in these countries by means of a distributor. At the moment, Crocs manages the distribution of its products directly in altogether 15 countries. In the future, the ...
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Paul Gomez, the senior vice president for global events and...
Paul Gomez, the senior vice president for global events and brand entertainment at Hurley, is the new chief executive of Podium Distribution, owner of DVS shoes, Matix apparel and Diamond Footwear
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The German shoe industry federation, HDS, has unanimously re-elected Ralph...
The German shoe industry federation, HDS, has unanimously re-elected Ralph Rieker of Ricosta as its chairman. Two older executives, Wilhelm Möhlmann of Marc Shoes and Hans-Joachim Wolter of Waldi-Schuhfabrik (Finncomfort), are leaving the executive board, and Ralph Wolter, son of Hans-Joachim, is joining it. Norbert Furche, the longtime manager of ...
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Jon Paul Grogan has been named sales executive for Babycham...
Jon Paul Grogan has been named sales executive for Babycham in the U.K., selling the footwear brand to key accounts. He will continue as well in his sales position at Jacobson Group for Gola Classics footwear and bags.
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Effective Monday, Paul Blum will be the new chief executive...
Effective Monday, Paul Blum will be the new chief executive at Kenneth Cole Productions. He will join the board of directors and will report to Kenneth Cole, who stays on as chairman and chief creative officer. Blum returned to the company last March, when he was brought on board as ...
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Michele Zonno has left as chief executive of Bruno Magli....
Michele Zonno has left as chief executive of Bruno Magli. He has been replaced by Armin Müller. Nothing could be learned about the circumstances of the change of management. At last report, Fortelus Capital Management, the London-based hedge fund that took over the Italian shoe company from Opera in 2006, ...
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Erich Rohde has made some changes in management recently. Mirko...
Erich Rohde has made some changes in management recently. Mirko Ostendörfer, the former executive of Marc Shoes who has been developing Rohde's licensed line of Daniel Hechter shoes, is now sales director of both Rohde and Hechter for all the German-speaking countries. Andreas Schulz is in charge of the group's ...
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Enrico Pesallaccia is leaving as the manager of Sixty Group's...
Enrico Pesallaccia is leaving as the manager of Sixty Group's footwear division, which he set up ten years ago, after pushing its sales to an annual level of 1.6 million pairs, with revenues of €60 million. The division handles the brands Miss Sixty, Energie, Killah and Murphy & Nye. New ...
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Albert Scherer is resigning as real estate manager of the...
Albert Scherer is resigning as real estate manager of the Hamm Reno Group and leaving the company, for which he worked for 20 years. He will continue as president of the German Council of Shopping Centers. Scherer's responsibilities at HRG will be taken over by Jens Gransee, sales manager of ...
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Geox has appointed Giorgio Presca to the new position of...
Geox has appointed Giorgio Presca to the new position of general manager in charge of marketing and product development. He worked most recently as chief executive of Citizens of Humanity, a high-end denim jeans company in California. The Italian manager worked previously for Diesel, Levi Strauss & Co., Benetton Group ...
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Pierre Bouissou, former chief executive of Berluti, is switching to...
Pierre Bouissou, former chief executive of Berluti, is switching to PPR to become president and CEO of Boucheron, the high-end French jeweler, in the place of Jean-Christophe Bedos
