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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 ...
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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 ...
