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ArticleBezos hands over leadership of Amazon
Jeff Bezos will hand over the chairmanship of Amazon’s board in the third quarter of 2021 to Andy Jassy, the head of the cloud business Amazon Web Services (AWS). Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 and built the company from an online bookstore into a trillion-dollar corporation. According to Bloomberg, ...
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Crocs hires a manager from Nike
Emma Minto has joined Crocs as senior vice president and general manager in charge of all the operations of the fast-growing brand of comfort shoes in North America. She had spent 16 years with Nike in various roles, most recently as vice president and general manager for Nike Women’s in ...
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ANWR Schuh’s Albert Mayer retires
ANWR Schuh’s head of purchasing and goods Albert Mayer will retire at the end of Jan. The sixty-four-year-old manager has worked in the industry for 47 years and has been serving in his current position at ANWR Schuh for the past 12 years. ANWR’s managing director Tobias Eichmeier will ...
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Cortina hires a new global marketing manager
Cortina has hired Karen Bellinck as global marketing manager. Bellinck joins the company from the luggage maker Samsonite, where she worked for nearly 20 years and became wholesale director. Cortina is a Belgium-based company producing private label footwear as well as footwear and apparel under licensed and house brands. The ...
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Camel Active Footwear changes sales manager
Markus Roth quit his job as sales manager of Camel Active Footwear at the end of December. The decision was reached by mutual agreement with HC Footwear, a unit of Hamm Market Solutions which holds the Camel Active license for footwear. His position is taken over by Claus Gese, the ...
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ANWR Schuh names new managing director
The German footwear buying group ANWR Schuh, ANWR Group’s footwear division, kicked off 2021 with a management shake-up. Starting from Jan. 15, Helmut Wies, who served as head of retail consulting at ANWR Schuh for many years, will take up the post of managing director in charge of consulting, ...
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News briefsSteve Madden names Maria Teresa Kumar to the board
Steve Madden has appointed María Teresa Kumar to the board of directors. With this appointment, the board expands to ten directors, eight of whom are independent. Kumar will be a member of the company’s corporate social responsibility committee. Kumar is the president and CEO of Voto Latino, which she co-founded ...
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News briefsMarc Durie becomes president of J.M. Weston
Marc Durie, 45 years old, has become the president of J.M. Weston, replacing Thierry Oriez. Durie was previously the global head of the men’s shoe division and customer relationship management department at Christian Louboutin, a position he held for over four years. He is expected to focus on the international ...
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News briefsCaleres reshuffles its senior management
Caleres has reshuffled its senior management, a move which it expects will ensure “greater alignment with its strategic direction, accelerate its growth initiatives, unlock the power of its portfolio of brands and drive sustainable, long-term value for its shareholders.” Under the reorganization announced in December, Jay Schmidt was named president ...
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News briefsNative Shoes appoints Kyle Housman CEO
Native Shoes, the Canadian footwear company, has promoted Kyle Housman to the position of CEO with immediate effect. He replaces Scott Hawthorne, who becomes executive chairman. Housman was previously president and has been credited by the company for having contributed to “significant revenue growth” by bolstering its direct-to-consumer business. Housman ...
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Wolverine makes two big executive appointments
Wolverine Worldwide has made a couple of executive appointments to ring in the new year. It has expanded the duties of Jim Zwiers, the current president of its international group. Zwiers is now also president of Wolverine’s global operations group, overseeing portfolio-wide sourcing, logistics, distribution, customer service and information technology. ...
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Zalando hires a “circularity director” away from H&M
Laura Coppen, who has been a major contributor to H&M’s sustainability efforts for almost five years, is joining Zalando to serve as “circularity director,” charged with implementing a program to promote greater transparency among its partner brands in the area of environmental protection. Her appointment follows a number of initiatives ...
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FDRA promotes Thomas Crockett to vice president
The U.S. trade association Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA) has promoted Thomas Crockett to vice president in charge of government affairs. Crockett has served the last six years as director overseeing government and regulatory affairs. He is currently responsible for managing FDRA’s advocacy on issues impacting ...
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News briefsSteve Madden has a new CFO as company veteran leaves
Steve Madden has promoted Zine Mazouzi, currently chief accounting officer and senior vice president of finance and operations, to the position of chief financial officer, replacing Arvind Dharia, who has been in the job since October 1992. The appointment is effective on Jan. 1. To ensure a smooth transition, Dharia ...
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News briefsGörtz names its new CFO
The German footwear retailer Görtz has appointed Tobias Volgmann as its new chief financial officer, replacing Stephan Tendam on Jan. 1. Tendam, who has served as managing director at Görtz since 2014 and is responsible for finance among other things, is resigning from the management at the end of the ...
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News briefsClarks’ general manager for DACH leaves
Lür Holler, who is general manager in charge of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH), as well as head of sales for the three German-speaking countries and Benelux, for the British shoe maker Clarks is leaving the company at the end of the year. He has been with Clarks for seven ...
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Schuhe24 expands management team
Germany’s Schuhe24 Group, which runs an online marketplace for independent retailers in many sectors, has expanded its management team by appointing Jürgen Hanke as head of retailers. The footwear expert, who took up the new post on Dec. 1, joined the company in April 2019, after working for 16 ...
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News briefsOne of Zalando’s three CEOs to step down
Rubin Ritter plans to step down as Zalando’s joint chief executive, responsible for strategy and communication. He and the company’s supervisory board will be negotiating to dissolve his contract, which was to run until November 2023. Ritter says that he will be spending more time with his expanding family and ...
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ArticleBata appoints Sandeep Kataria CEO
Bata, the Lausanne-based shoemaker, has appointed Sandeep Kataria as global chief executive, replacing Alexis Nasard, who led the company for nearly five years. Nasard stepped down to pursue a professional opportunity outside the company and the change is effective immediately. Kataria joined Bata in 2017 as the company’s chief executive ...
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News briefsYoox Net-a-Porter names Geoffroy Lefebvre CEO
Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP), the fashion online retailer owned by the Swiss luxury goods group Richemont, has appointed Geoffroy Lefebvre as chief executive, effective on Jan. 4. He replaces Federico Marchetti who remains as chairman. In March, Marchetti announced his intention to relinquish the job as CEO but to stay as ...
