All Executive changes articles – Page 42
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Thomas Camille is replacing Jean-Marc Tailleu as general manager of...
Thomas Camille is replacing Jean-Marc Tailleu as general manager of Pataugas
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Vionic has made Jerry Williamson its senior vice president of...
Vionic has made Jerry Williamson its senior vice president of global sales, in charge of the company's domestic, international, home shopping and medical teams. The American footwear brand, which was recently taken over by Caleres, has also made Angela Caltagirone its senior vice president of digital and brand marketing, in ...
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Lars Hemming, a 45-year-old Danish expert in digital marketing, brand...
Lars Hemming, a 45-year-old Danish expert in digital marketing, brand building and transformation, is set to become a new member of Ecco's executive board at the Danish company's annual meeting on May 29. He will join the six other members of the executive board, led by Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak.
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Salamander has appointed Jochen Haag, 51, to the executive board...
Salamander has appointed Jochen Haag, 51, to the executive board responsible for international retail operations, effective on April 1. The German-based shoe producer and retailer, which has been fully owned by the Ara Group since 2016, also appointed Jens Keller, manager of commercial operations at Salamander since 2012, as “speaker” ...
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The Tod's brand has hired the designer Alber Elbaz to...
The Tod's brand has hired the designer Alber Elbaz to work on its Tod's Factory project, which involves the contribution of external designers on a rotating basis. Elbaz was creative director at the French fashion house of Lanvin from 2001 to 2015. He will be the second designer to take ...
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Alpargatas, which owns the Havaianas brand of rubber shoes, has...
Alpargatas, which owns the Havaianas brand of rubber shoes, has made Scott Ziegler its new retail director for Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA), with responsibility for the region's 170 Havaianas points of sale, from mono-brand stores to franchisees and concessions. Ziegler is no stranger to the region, having ...
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Schuh has announced that its buying director, David Spencer, is...
Schuh has announced that its buying director, David Spencer, is leaving the company. Spencer spent 21 years at the Scotland-based footwear retailer.
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Zalando has announced that Christian Baier and Jan Wilmking, both...
Zalando has announced that Christian Baier and Jan Wilmking, both managing directors of zLabels, will be leaving the company. zLabels, the e-tailer's nine-year-old private label division, was closed on April 1, although the company has indicated that it will continue to offer “everyday essential” clothing and footwear products under 11 ...
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Hunter Boots has appointed Mark Reed to the post of...
Hunter Boots has appointed Mark Reed to the post of chief financial officer. The former CFO, Benedict Smith, left the British company in August 2018 and is now group CFO at a marketing firm, Willams Lea Tag. Reed joins Hunter from Anya Hindmarch, a London-based accessories brand, where he had been CFO ...
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Victor Herrero, a former chief executive of Guess, and Stephen...
Victor Herrero, a former chief executive of Guess, and Stephen Bolton, a former top executive of Unilever and Diageo, joined the board of directors of Clarks earlier this month as non-executive directors. Another new manager with experience in real estate and equity investment, Peter Clark, joined the board last November. ...
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Kai Dirks is replacing Michael Stoll at the Hamm-Reno Group...
Kai Dirks is replacing Michael Stoll at the Hamm-Reno Group the end of April as the executive board member in charge of retailing. His tasks will include the repositioning of the Reno banner and the integration of the 80-odd CCC stores in Germany that the group took over a few ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo registered a 25.5 percent drop in its 2018...
Salvatore Ferragamo registered a 25.5 percent drop in its 2018 net profit, excluding minorities, to €88.4 million and cut its full-year dividend to €0.34 per share from €0.38 a year earlier. Full-year sales were down by 3.3 percent to €1,347 million (see Shoe Intelligence Vol. 21 n° 3+4) and gross ...
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Tod's has hired Carlo Alberto Beretta as general brand manager,...
Tod's has hired Carlo Alberto Beretta as general brand manager, effective Feb. 25. He will report to the group's chief executive and general manager, Umberto Macchi di Cellere. Beretta's past experiences include chief client and marketing officer for Kering from September 2016 to November 2017 and chief executive officer for ...
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In July, Wolfgang Neussner will assume the management of Leder & Schuh, the...
In July, Wolfgang Neussner will assume the management of Leder & Schuh, the Austrian parent company of the Humanic and Shoe4You retail chains. He will be replacing Werner Weber, who is set to leave the company in mid-2019. Neussner, who has had a seat on the company's advisory board since 2015, will be ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo has promoted Paul Andrew to creative director. The...
Salvatore Ferragamo has promoted Paul Andrew to creative director. The English designer, who started off at the Italian company as women's footwear designer in 2016, had already taken charge of women's wear one year later. Christian Mainard will remain in charge of men's footwear and clothing, and he will also ...
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In February Ian Niblock was appointed general manager of Fagus,...
In February Ian Niblock was appointed general manager of Fagus, the German brand of lasts. Niblock replaces Kai Greten, managing partner of Fagus-GreCon Greten. Fagus has production sites in Germany, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Thailand and Belarus. Niblock has been working for the company since 2017 – first as innovations ...
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Eram has appointed Julien Bianchi as the new managing director...
Eram has appointed Julien Bianchi as the new managing director of TBS. He succeeds Jean-Marc Taillieu, who left TBS in September 2018. Bianchi has 15 years of experience in the sports and footwear sectors. He has previously worked at Kappa Europe (formerly Sport Finance), La Halle and venteprivée.com. TBS will ...
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Farfetch has appointed its first chief fashion officer, Holli Rogers,...
Farfetch has appointed its first chief fashion officer, Holli Rogers, who was lately with Brown
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Mike Jensen has been made president of Reef, the beach...
Mike Jensen has been made president of Reef, the beach lifestyle brand recently divested by VF Corp. He was most recently the general manager and brand manager of DC Shoes at Boardriders. He previously worked for Asics, Spy and Converse. Jensen will report directly to Gregg Ribatt, the new chief ...
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Timberland continues to hire new people in a bid to...
Timberland continues to hire new people in a bid to regain some momentum. As of Feb. 1, Chris McGrath is Timberland's new vice president of global footwear design, for men's, women's and children's footwear. He reports directly to Jim Pisani, the company's global brand president, and will be relocating from ...
