All Executive changes articles – Page 14
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Paciotti names Diego Dolcini head of women’s footwear
Diego Dolcini was appointed rebranding and design director for women’s footwear at Paciotti, an Italian producer of luxury footwear. Dolcini has nearly three decades of experience in the luxury and fashion sector. According to his LinkedIn account he is creative director and owner of his namesake brand since 1994 and ...
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Saucony hires Brian Moore as global product head
Saucony, part of the Wolverine Worldwide group, has appointed footwear industry veteran Brian Moore as senior vice president of global product, effective immediately. In his new role, Moore will be responsible for Saucony’s global brand footwear and apparel strategies, including design, development and product innovation. Moore will report directly to ...
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ArticleClarks CEO steps down after 10 months in role as strike drags on
The embattled British shoemaker Clarks said that its chief executive, Victor Herrero, has stepped down after only months in the job to take on “broader” responsibilities at its private equity parent firm. The announcement comes amid an ongoing strike by workers at the company’s Westway warehouse in Somerset over controversial ...
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ArticleWeyco sees an improvement in supply deliveries in Q4
The U.S. group Weyco enjoyed a rebound in sales and earnings in the third quarter of 2021, but bottlenecks in the supply chain caused delays in the delivery of merchandise from suppliers and hurt the sales of its outdoor brand Bogs. In October, however, the company began to see an ...
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VF appoints new investor relations head
VF Corp. has appointed Allegra Perry to the position of vice president, investor relations, effective Jan. 2022. She will report to VF’s chief financial officer, Matt Puckett, and work closely with the group’s executive leadership team and executives across the company’s 12 brands, including The North Face, Timberland, Vans and ...
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Keen reorganizes German sales team
Ralph Hermann, so far Keen’s representative in Baden-Württemberg with his agency “Die Berg Agenten”, will be Keen’s new country manager for Germany. Baden-Württemberg as well as Bavaria will be taken over from fall/winter 2022 by the agency Frotscher, which also looks after brands such as Havaianas, CMP, Inuovo and Hoff ...
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Crocs has two new SVPs
Crocs has hired Lori Foglia as senior vice president and chief product and merchandising officer. Foglia brings nearly 25 years of product, merchandising and retail experience to the company. She previously worked at Victoria’s Secret, where she spent nearly five years overseeing product merchandising for more than 1,000 stores, as ...
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Burberry appoints a new CEO
The British luxury fashion company Burberry has appointed Jonathan Akeroyd as chief executive and executive director, effective April 1, 2022. He will replace Marco Gobbetti, who is stepping down on Dec. 31 to join Salvatore Ferragamo as CEO and general manager. Burberry’s chairman Gerry Murphy will chair the company’s executive ...
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Caleres hires a new head of customer marketing
Suzy Cirulis has joined Caleres as senior vice president in charge of customer marketing. In this role, she will lead the company’s customer marketing efforts across the entire Caleres portfolio including customer relationship marketing, customer insights and customer analytics. She was most recently chief marketing officer at Crate and Barrel. ...
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ArticleFerragamo hires 2 new managers
The Italian fashion company Salvatore Ferragamo has bolstered its management structure for North America and the EMEA region, with the nomination of two new managers. Daniella Vitale will join Ferragamo on Oct. 18 in the role of CEO for North America while Vincenzo Equestre has already covered the position of ...
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Tod’s’ CEO leaves
The Italian footwear company Tod’s cuts the number of co-CEOs from three to two, resulting in the departure of Umberto Macchi di Cellere after four years in the job. The company’s board approved to maintain the position of CEO solely for the chairman, Diego Della Valle, and the vice-chairman, Andrea ...
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Vögele Shoes hires a purchasing, marketing head
The Swiss footwear retailer Karl Vögele AG (KVAG), which operates the banners Vögele Shoes, Bingo and Max Shoes, has hired Timm Jacob as head of purchasing and marketing and joins the senior management team along with the chairman Christan Müller and the CEO and chief financial officer Max Bertschinger. Jacob ...
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Holger Rosemann becomes CEO of AstorMueller
Swiss shoe manufacturer AstorMueller has announced the name of its new CEO. Starting on Sept. 1, Holger Rosemann will take the helm of the company from Peter Schüpbach , who has been serving as interim CEO since May 1. Rosemann, 52, was most recently head of operations ...
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Luis Onofre re-elected president of CEC
Luis Onofre was unanimously re-elected for a second two-year term as president of the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry ( CEC ). The European footwear industry consists of 21,000 companies responsible for 278,000 people. Onofre is also president of Apiccaps , the Portuguese association grouping footwear, ...
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ArticleCrocs seeks to block import of counterfeits into the U.S.
Crocs filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking an investigation of allegedly ”unlawfully imported shoes” into the U.S. in ”violation of its registered trademarks.” With the complaint, Crocs is seeking to block the importation and subsequent sale of products into the U.S. that infringe ...
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Former VF CFO joins Tapestry
Tapestry , the New York-based owner of Coach , Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman , has appointed Scott Roe as chief financial officer (CFO), effective June 1. Roe will have responsibility for all finance functions as well as leading the company’s strategy and consumer insights teams. He ...
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Ferragamo’s shareholders elect a new board
Salvatore Ferragamo ’s shareholders elected on April 22 the new board which will be in place for the next three years. The board immediately appointed Leonardo Ferragamo as non-executive chairman. He replaces his brother Ferruccio , who held the job for 15 years. The company confirmed Michele Norsa ...
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VF Corp. appoints new CFO
VF Corp. has promoted Matt Puckett to the position of executive vice president and chief financial officer, reporting to VF’s CEO, Steve Rendle , and serving on the company’s executive leadership team. Puckett joined VF in 2001 as a senior accountant in the finance department. In the ...
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New chief marketing officer for Vans
Vans has appointed Kristin Harrer as chief marketing officer. Described by the company as a “true brand expert in digital and direct to consumer experiences,” Harrer held senior marketing positions in the last four years at Samsung Electronics and the Dollar Shave Club of Los Angeles. Prior to that, she ...
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Anthropologie changes CEO
Urban Outfitters announced that Tricia Smith is the new CEO of its clothing retail unit Anthropologie , replacing Hillary Super . Super left on April 9 after four years with the company and Smith took over the job on April 12. Smith spent over 26 years at ...
