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Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh steps
Tony Hsieh, 46, has retired as the chief executive of the online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos.com after nearly 20 years at the helm. He has been replaced by the company’s chief operating officer Kedar Deshpande. Zappos started as Shoesite.com, founded by Nick Swinmurn. The company’s name was changed to ...
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APLF director Perrine Ardouin leaves
Perrine Ardouin is leaving her post as a director of the exhibition company APLF after 24 years in charge of the portfolio of trade fairs and events. She has decided to leave Hong Kong and move on to a new page of her life. After her departure, she will continue ...
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Birkenstock’s retail head leaves
Birkenstock’s retail director, Oliver Jansen, left in August to join Bahlsen Outlets, the outlet business of the German biscuit maker Bahlsen Group. The German sandal maker has yet to announce a successor Prior to joining Birkenstock in March 2018, Jansen worked for the fashion group Esprit, between October 2015 and ...
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ArticleFarfetch’s Q2 GMV surges and beats the company guidance
The British fashion e-tailer Farfetch saw gross merchandise value (GMV) increase by 47.7 percent year-on-year in the second quarter to $721.3 million. GMV of its digital platform business rose by 34.4 percent to $651.0 million. Excluding the impact of changes in foreign exchange rates, the increase reached 39.2 percent. The ...
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ArticleOmni-channel retail specialist to become new president of Wolverine Worldwide
Brendan Hoffman will take office on Sept. 8 as the new president of Wolverine Worldwide, the company announced earlier this week. Hoffman will then also join the company’s board of directors. Source: Wolverine Worldwide Brendan Hoffman The omni-channel retail specialist brings 30 years of experience in merchandising, ...
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Samuel Deichmann joins operational management team
Samuel Deichmann, 27, has joined the six-member operational management team of the family-owned Deichmann group. Since Aug. 1, he is in charge of digital innovation, investments and corporate development, including parts of the physical retailing activity. Samuel Deichmann is the fourth generation of the family involved in the German footwear ...
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Timberland hires new VP of global marketing
Timberland hired Drieke Leenknegt in June to be its vice president of global marketing and join its global leadership team. She is succeeding Argu Secilmis, who has become vice president of global apparel. Leenknegt will be liaising with the brand’s marketing regional teams, in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe, the ...
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Canada Goose sends a signal with strategic hire of GM Footwear
Canada Goose appointed Adam Meek to the new role of general manager of footwear & accessories. Meek brings more than 20 years of global footwear experience to this role. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of product at Sperry (Wolverine Worldwide), where he led global product teams in ...
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Luis Onofre re-elected president of Apiccaps
Luis Onofre was re-elected for three years as president of Apiccaps, the Portuguese association grouping manufacturers of footwear, components and leathergoods. Onofre said that at a time when Europe is discussing its reindustrialization it is important that Portugal creates the conditions to ”definitively assert itself as a leader in the ...
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ArticleCirillo Marcolin takes over presidency of Confindustria Moda
As planned, Cirillo Marcolin has taken over the rotating presidency of Confindustria Moda, the umbrella organization of the Italian fashion industry, replacing Claudio Marenzi. Confindustria Moda comprises Sistema Moda Italia (SMI), which groups the textile and apparel firms operating in the country; Assocalzaturifici, the shoemakers’ association; Assopellettieri, formerly called Aimpes, ...
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Tapestry’s CEO resigns less than a year in the job
Jide Zeitlin, the chairman and chief executive of Tapestry, has resigned with immediate effect for personal reasons, less than one year after becoming CEO. Tapestry, a New York-based luxury goods house, owns the brands Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman. In September 2019, Zeitlin replaced Victor Luis as CEO while ...
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News briefsSperry names Sean McDowell VP in charge of design and product development
Sperry, a division of Wolverine Worldwide, has appointed Sean McDowell as vice president of design and product development. He will report to Joelle Grunberg, global brand president of Sperry and a member of Wolverine Worldwide’s executive leadership team . McDowell has worked for three decades in the footwear industry, of ...
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News briefsPrada appoints Christopher Bugg group communications director
Prada has appointed Christopher Bugg as communications director for the group and will report to Lorenzo Bertelli, the Italian fashion group’s head of marketing. Bugg joined the group in January 2020 as Prada’s marketing and communication director for Asia. Previously, he was the global digital communications director at Louis Vuitton ...
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Shoe Zone appoints Peter Foot finance director
Shoe Zone has appointed Peter Foot as finance director, with effect from July 6. He will replace Jonathan Fearn, who held the job for over four years and whose resignation has been accepted with effect from July 31. Foot is due to become a board member of the British ...
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News briefsEarth Shoes appoints Jocelyn Thornton VP of product and merchandising
Earth Shoes has appointed Jocelyn Thornton to the new post of executive vice president of product and merchandising and Fred Allard as creative director of product. Before joining Earth Jones, Thornton was senior vice president of creative and merchandising strategy at the fashion and retail consultancy Doneger Group for over ...
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Deckers appoints Victor Luis to its board
Deckers Brands has appointed Victor Luis to its board of directors to replace James Quinn, who has yielded the seat he gained in 2011. Luis was chief executive and a board member of the former Coach from 2014 to 2019, during its transition to a new name: Tapestry. The company ...
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Golden Goose names Maureen Chiquet chair
Golden Goose has appointed Chanel’s former chief executive Maureen Chiquet as non-executive chairwoman, replacing Patrizio Di Marco. The announcement was made as the British private equity group Permira completed its previously announced acquisition of a majority stake in the Italian producer of upscale sneakers from its U.S. peer Carlyle, which ...
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News briefsBreuer returns to Lorenz Shoe as global sales director for Högl
Högl Shoe Fashion, the Austrian shoe brand that is part of the Lorenz Shoe Group, has appointed Walter Breuer to the position of global sales director. As a new member of the company’s executive board, Breuer will support Gerhard Bachmaier and Patrick Lorenz, managing partners at Högl, from July 1. ...
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Christian Prazzoli is the new CEO of Baldinini
The Italian high-end shoemaker Baldinini has appointed Christian Prazzoli as its chief executive, while the company’s previous helmsman, Gimmi Baldinini, will continue as chairman. The appointment comes after the Bologna-based company Finross, owned by the Rossetti family, earlier this year bought a 60 percent stake in Baldinini for €13 million ...
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Spanish footwear employers, unions call for more help
The Spanish employers association Fice and the trade unions CCOO and UGT met on June 16 to analyze the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the footwear industry and have called on the authorities to help by extending the temporary lay-off mechanism ERTES at least until the end of the ...
