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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 ...
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Cole Haan has a new VP of North American wholesale
Cole Haan has appointed Andrew Rudolph as senior vice president of North American wholesale sales, preparing the American casual footwear brand for its entry into the sporting goods retail channel. Rudolph spent the past five years as vice president of sales at Adidas, his home since at least 2007, generating ...
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News briefsMerrell names new chief marketing officer
Merrell has announced the appointment of Janice Tennant as chief marketing officer. She will be reporting directly to the brand’s global brand president, Chris Hufnagel, and joining its senior leadership team. Tennant has more than 18 years of global brand-building experience, most recently serving as chief marketing officer for Cat ...
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Galeria's CEO Stephan Fanderl is expected to leave
Stephan Fanderl is said to be leaving the position of chief executive of Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof (Galeria), the holding company formed in 2018 from the merger of the Galeria Kaufhof and Karstadt department stores. He has suggested a consensual separation to the Austrian-based Signa Retail Group, parent company of Galeria, ...
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Hunter goes under review as CEO quits
Vincent Wauters, the former president of Arc’teryx who became the chief executive of Hunter Boot Ltd in 2016, will be stepping down “by mutual agreement” at the end of July to pursue new opportunities, said the Edinburgh-based company, adding that it is launching a “strategic review” of its operations. ...
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Daniel Kraus leaves Bernd Hummel
On May 31, Daniel Kraus left Bernd Hummel, the German-based licensee of Kangaroos and owner of the Flip Flop brand. In May 2018, Bernd Hummel had appointed Kraus to the newly created position of vice president for sales and marketing, responsible for sales of the Kangaroos and Flip Flop brands ...
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Klekt taps Sally Scott as first CEO
Online sneaker and streetwear marketplace Klekt hired Sally Scott to be its chief executive, a newly created position at the group. Scott comes to Klekt from beauty box subscription service Birchbox, where she was UK managing director from July 2018 until February 2020.
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Walter Breuer to leave Think!
Walter Breuer, long-time chief executive of Think!, is leaving. This shoe brand is owned and managed by Legero United, the Austrian-based footwear group that also markets brands such as Superfit, Legero and Vios. Legero United is integrating Think! into the sales organization of its Superfit and Legero shoe brands, and ...
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Felix Finger has left the HR Group
Felix Finger, a member of the executive board of the Hamm-Reno Group, left the German shoe retailing company on March 31 by mutual agreement. He was responsible for IT, logistics and e-commerce. Finger joined the HR Group in 2002 and was mainly responsible for the development of the group’s online ...
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Rautureau hires Riccardo Ribolla as sales manager
The French company Rautureau Apple Shoes has hired Riccardo Ribolla to head its sales team. He started on May 11. Before moving to Rautureau, Ribolla worked for S&Co, a French distributor of fashion brands such as Elisabetta Franchi, M Missoni and TwinSet. Prior to that, he worked in Italy until ...
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Klaus Magele leaves Salamander Austria
Klaus Magele, chief executive of Salamander Austria, will be leaving the company after 25 years. Salamander Austria, which is owned by the Ara Group, manages the Salamnder stores in Austria as well as Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. The Delka shoe retail chain is also part of Salamander ...
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ArticleFerragamo calls back Michele Norsa as deputy chairman
Salvatore Ferragamo reformed its corporate governance and appointed its former chief executive Michele Norsa, 71, as executive deputy chairman, rekindling speculation of a possible change of ownership.
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Zalando to appoint Rent the Runway CEO to its supervisory board
The nomination committee of the supervisory board of Zalando has proposed to elect Jennifer Hyman to the board replacing Alexander Samwer, who has been a director since 2013. Hyman is the chief executive and co-founder of the company Rent the Runway, a New York-based online service that provides designer dress ...
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Cat Footwear has a new global brand president
Cat Footwear, a division of Wolverine Worldwide, has appointed Chip Coe as its global brand president. He will be reporting to Chris Hufnagel, who belongs to Wolverine’s executive team and is global brand president of Merrell. Coe has been with Wolverine since 2010, serving as president of the Chaco brand ...
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ANWR Schuh appoints a new chief executive
Tobias Eichmeier was appointed joint chief executive of ANWR Schuh on May 1. He will be leading the German buying group shoe retailers together with Heike Discher. Eichmeier, 44, previously worked for Globetrotter, responsible for purchasing and the development of the German outdoor retail chain’s product range. Before that, he ...
