All Executive changes articles – Page 29
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Sabu hires Zalando procurement manager
Sabu, the German shoe retailers’cooperative, has hired Johanna Ferner to fill the newly created position of head of purchasing fashion and accessories. The 44-year old will join the company on Oct. 1. Ferner comes from the German e-tailer Zalando, where she was senior buyer in charge of accessories, overseeing bags, ...
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Alexandra Dornérus leaves NilsonGroup for Ellos Group
Alexandra Dornérus is leaving the Swedish footwear group NilsonGroup, where she was head of digital sales for over a year, and is joining on the Swedish e-commerce company Ellos Group, as new business development manager, on Oct. 1. Dornérus estimates that Ellos Group has great potential to attract new clients ...
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Michelle Poole becomes president of Crocs
Michelle Poole has been promoted to the position of president of Crocs, taking over one of the former functions of Andrew Rees, the company’s chief executive. After working for Kangol, Timberland, Converse and Sperry Top-Sider, Poole joined Crocs in 2014 as senior vice president of global merchandising, adding responsibility for ...
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Camper names Achilles Ion Gabriel global creative director
The Spanish shoe maker Camper has appointed Achilles Ion Gabriel as its global creative director. In 2019, the Finnish shoe designer was named creative director of the company’s sub-brand CamperLab. His first Camperlab collection was presented in January and has been available in the stores since the end of August. ...
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News briefsSuzanne McKenna manages Clarks brand
Suzanne McKenna was appointed managing director of C. & J. Clark International in August and is in charge of developing the core Clarks brand in all markets. She reports to the company’s chief executive Giorgio Presca, the former head of Geox and Golden Goose. McKenna was previously global head of ...
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Tretorn reinforces its management team in its move to accelerate DTC shift
Tretorn, the Swedish footwear and outerwear brand, continues to reinforce its management team as it seeks to overhaul its business model and develop direct-to-consumer channels. In the summer of 2019, the company, which was established in 1891, appointed Magnus Månsson as its new chief executive. Before joining Tretorn, Månsson served ...
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Shoe Zone CEO and chairman increase their stakes
Anthony Smith, the chief executive of Shoe Zone, and Charles Smith, the company’s chairman, have increased their stakes in the British footwear retailer by buying the shares owned by Jeremy Sharman, a non‐executive director of the company who has decided to leave the board after holding a seat for nine ...
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Buffalo beefs up its sales team
Buffalo, the German footwear brand acquired by Deichmann in October 2016, has hired three new sales representatives for the German and Austrian markets. Torben-Friis Steffen will oversee the East/West region in Germany, Klaus Kaiser will cover Southern Germany and Austria and Magnus von Dobbeler will be responsible for customers in ...
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Li & Fung appoints chief customer officer
Li & Fung of Hong Kong has appointed Deepika Rana to the new post of chief customer officer. A 17-year veteran of at the international sourcing group, Rana will retain the titles of president of supply chain solutions, president of the executive office, and executive vice president and country director ...
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Amazon’s head of European retail is stepping down
Xavier Garambois, who has been running Amazon’s European retail operations for the past eight years, is leaving the company. According to The Telegraph, he will be replaced by Jorrit Van der Meulen, Amazon’s vice president for Europe, who has also been in charge of Amazon Devices (Alexa, Vesta, etc.) outside ...
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News briefsHannah Colman confirmed as Jimmy Choo’s CEO
Hannah Colman has been appointed chief executive officer of the luxury shoe maker Jimmy Choo, reporting to John Idol, the chairman and CEO of the parent company, Capri Holdings. She has been holding the job on an interim basis since May. Colman was one of the brand’s earliest employees when ...
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Profectus appoints new sales managers for Brax license
In the wake of a management shake-up at the German casual fashion brand Brax, the footwear licensee Profectus Brand Construction has appointed new area sales heads after Ralf Düsterdiek, the brand’s sales manager, stepped down in July this year, after just seven months in the job to join Ara Shoes. ...
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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 ...
