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Footway hires Tom Söderlund as CTO
Footway, the international Swedish-based shoe e-tailer, has hired Tom Söderlund as chief technology officer. He will be in charge of the company’s technical infrastructure and architecture. Söderlund comes from Weld, which develops marketing platforms for e-retailers, where he was the co-founder and CEO. He previously worked for a string of ...
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Shoepassion expands its advisory board
The Berlin-based footwear company Shoepassion has added the design and branding expert Elmar Schüller to its advisory board. He joins the other board members Wendelin Wiedeking, Norbert Lehmann and Thomas Treß. Schüller is the president of the Innovative Living Institute and has helped shape the Red Dot Design Award for ...
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ArticleShoe Carnival names a new CEO
Shoe Carnival’s board has unanimously elected Mark Worden as the next CEO, effective Sept. 30. Worden is the chief customer officer of the American footwear retailer and will succeed Cliff Sifford, who will step down as CEO but will continue as vice chairman of the board. Sifford joined the company ...
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News briefsPorta appointed permanent CEO of Hunter Boots
British brand Hunter Boots has confirmed Paolo Porta as permanent CEO. Porta has held the position on an interim basis since replacing Vincent Wauters in June 2020. Prior to joining Hunter, he was senior vice president of merchandising and licensing at Jimmy Choo. Before that, he held roles in merchandising, ...
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ArticleVictor Herrero confirmed as Clarks CEO after LionRock completes deal
LionRock Capital has completed its deal to take a majority stake in the struggling British shoe maker Clarks and confirmed senior management changes, with Victor Herrero replacing Giorgio Presca as CEO after weeks of speculation. The departures of the chief commercial officer, Massimo Barzaghi, and of the head of human ...
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ArticleShoe Zone warns on profits
Shoe Zone has warned that profits are unlikely to return to pre-Covid pandemic levels for the “foreseeable future,” after it swung to a full-year loss, citing the impact of store closures during lockdowns. The company said revenues for the year to Oct. 3, 2020 slumped by 24 percent to £122.6 ...
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Amazon Fashion has a new president
Amazon Fashion has named Muge Erdirik Dogan president, replacing Christine Beauchamp, who was promoted to head the online retailing group’s consumer categories in North America. Dogan has been with Amazon for nearly 14 years, during which she managed various category, technology and operations teams.
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Capri names a new chief information officer
Capri Holdings, the parent company of Jimmy Choo, Versace and Michael Kors, has appointed Alejandro Martinez-Galindo as chief information officer (CIO) of the group, reporting to Thomas Edwards, the chief financial officer and chief operating officer. The appointment is effective March 8. Martinez-Galindo has held executive roles across several industries ...
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News briefsSusie Mulder is Timberland’s new global brand president
VF Corp. has appointed Susie Mulder as global brand president of Timberland. She will start her new role with the New Hampshire-based brand on April 5 and report to VF’s chairman, president and CEO, Steve Rendle. She will also serve on VF’s executive leadership team. Mulder joins Timberland from women’s ...
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Clarks undergoes a management shake-up
According to various sources, Clarks has undergone a management reshuffle after its takeover by the Hong Kong-based private equity firm LionRock Capital. The chief executive, Giorgio Presca, the chief commercial officer, Massimo Barzaghi, and the head of human resources, Difna Blamey, have left the company, they indicated. Meanwhile, Victor Herrero, ...
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ArticleECC appoints second managing director
The European-Clearing-Center (ECC), which acts as a platform for electronic data exchange between producers and retailers in the footwear and fashion sector, is strengthening its management team. As of April 1, Stefan Nicolai, an expert in inventory and data management, will become managing director for marketing and sales as a ...
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Hunter’s global brand director quits
After nearly eight years in job, Ali Lowry announced he was stepping down as global brand director at Hunter. In a message posted on LinkedIn called “Given Hunter The Boot”, Lowry wrote that after seven years and eight months ”I leave on a high and at a time that feels ...
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ArticleKickz reshuffles management after takeover
The German chain of streetwear and sneaker stores Kickz is reorganising its management team and is gearing up for the future after its recent takeover. The new co-CEOs Mark Petereit and Denis Horvat will take the helm on Feb. 15, a dual leadership that should steer the company through ...
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Deckers appoints DTC and digital specialist to its board
Deckers Brands has appointed Maha S. Ibrahim to its board of directors, effective Feb. 1. Mike Devine, chairman of the board, said he especially values her experience identifying trends and driving growth in the direct-to-consumer and technology sectors. He also said Ibrahim’s insights and capabilities align with management’s focus on ...
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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, ...
