All Executive changes articles – Page 60
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Roger L. Rawlins, executive vice president and chief innovation officer...
Roger L. Rawlins, executive vice president and chief innovation officer of DSW, will succeed the current chief executive of the American shoe retail chain, Michael R. MacDonald, on Jan. 1. Rawlings will also join DSW's board of directors. He has spent almost ten years in various functions at the company, ...
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Nicholas Kirkwood's co-founder and chief executive, Christopher Suarez, has left...
Nicholas Kirkwood's co-founder and chief executive, Christopher Suarez, has left the company to pursue other interests effective Oct. 30. After LVMH acquired a majority stake in the company in Sept. 2013, a two-year plan was put in place to prepare the company for the next stage of development. Suarez's departure ...
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Sports Connection, the distributor of Skechers in the Nordic countries,...
Sports Connection, the distributor of Skechers in the Nordic countries, says that its sales grew by more than 125 percent so far this year. The biggest growth took place in Denmark, the distributor's home market, but the other three Nordic countries – Sweden, Norway and Finland – also registered an ...
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Leomil says it is expanding its cooperation with the Walt...
Leomil says it is expanding its cooperation with the Walt Disney Company to Latin America. It has already started to market Frozen and Minnie shoes in Colombia and Surinam, where it will also work with an upcoming Disney film, The Good Dinosaur. Its partnership for Spider-man is heading into Colombia, ...
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Elizabeth Murdoch, daughter of the media magnate Rupert Murdoch, has...
Elizabeth Murdoch, daughter of the media magnate Rupert Murdoch, has joined the board of Jimmy Choo as a non-executive director
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Görtz has a new managing director, Frank Revermann, who will...
Görtz has a new managing director, Frank Revermann, who will replace Thorsten Hermelink. The 46-year-old will be responsible at the German shoe retail group for sales, marketing, e-commerce and expansion, joining two other members of the executive board, Christian Moritz and Stephan Tendam. Revermann has spent 13 years at Bonita, ...
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A new top manager, Michael Dornseifer, has joined Rohde in...
A new top manager, Michael Dornseifer, has joined Rohde in the position of international sales director. The 48-year-old, who worked already for the German company from 1997 to 2007, will work closely with the two members of its executive board, Harald Neisser and Patrick Ruiz Martin.
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Dennis Schmidt, a 42-year-old former manager of Uhlsport, has joined...
Dennis Schmidt, a 42-year-old former manager of Uhlsport, has joined Bernd Hummel to work on brand-building and other marketing activities for Kangaroos, the brand licensed by Pentland Group for Germany and other markets in Europe
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Aeffe has appointed two new top managers for Pollini and...
Aeffe has appointed two new top managers for Pollini and Moschino. Lorenzo Panerai, 44, is Pollini's new chief operating officer. He will be in charge of the industrial platform for the production and development of footwear, leather goods and accessories for all of the group's brands. Pollini has 14 years ...
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Steve Madden has appointed Amelia Newton Varela as president, and...
Steve Madden has appointed Amelia Newton Varela as president, and Karla Frieders as chief merchandising officer, a newly-created position. Both are longtime employees of the New York-based fashion-footwear company. Newton Varela has worked at Steve Madden for more than 17 years in various roles, most recently as executive vice-president of ...
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Replay has assigned Javier Brandwain, based in Montevideo, the job...
Replay has assigned Javier Brandwain, based in Montevideo, the job of developing the brand in Latin America and the Caribbean
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OrthoLite has promoted John Barret to chief operating officer from...
OrthoLite has promoted John Barret to chief operating officer from his previous position as general manager of Asia. In his new role he will be responsible for all Asian operations including manufacturing, product development, human resources, finance and administration, research and development, and sustainability initiatives. The insoles maker has also ...
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Helen Thomson, the former Clarks manager who became the head...
Helen Thomson, the former Clarks manager who became the head of Ecco for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) a year ago, is no longer with the company since Aug. 12, the company says, due to differences of opinion on strategic issues. Her responsibilities will be handled on an ...
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Paul Mason has been made non-executive chairman of Dr. Martens,...
Paul Mason has been made non-executive chairman of Dr. Martens, taking the place of David Suddens, who is leaving the fast-growing brand acquired by the Permira investment fund last year. Suddens spent 13 years at the helm of the company, achieving its turnaround. Mason had acted briefly as non-executive chairman ...
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Jeff Lasher, who has been chief financial officer of Crocs...
Jeff Lasher, who has been chief financial officer of Crocs since 2011, is leaving the company in early November to occupy a similar position at West Marine. Mike Smith, a former executive of Collective Brands and Wolverine Worldwide who joined Crocs earlier this year as senior vice president of finance, ...
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Bob Mullaney, an executive with more than two decades of...
Bob Mullaney, an executive with more than two decades of experience in the footwear sector, has been appointed to the new position of president and chief operating officer of ShoeBuy, the Boston-based online shoe retailer, reporting to its chief executive, Mike Sorabella. Most recently, Mullaney served as president of Rockport ...
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Gerli, owner of the Dockers brand of shoes in Europe,...
Gerli, owner of the Dockers brand of shoes in Europe, has appointed Anja Hermann to a new position as marketing and advertising manager
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Two top managers of Deichmann are leaving the company. Karsten...
Two top managers of Deichmann are leaving the company. Karsten Schütt, managing director in charge of information technology and logistics, has decided to quit after 17 years with the group. Another managing director in charge of purchasing, Wolfram Hall, will leave the company by mutual consent after four years in ...
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Kering, the parent company of Gucci, Saint Laurent, Puma and...
Kering, the parent company of Gucci, Saint Laurent, Puma and other brands, has announced the departure of Louise Beveridge, communication director, after five years in the post. The 53-year-old French-Irish manager, who was responsible for the change in the company's name from PPR, was also a member of the group's ...
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Diesel has created a new regional Diesel Europe unit, run...
Diesel has created a new regional Diesel Europe unit, run by Joanna Onland, for a more direct and consistent management of its key accounts. Onland has been with Diesel for five years, first as general manager for the Benelux countries and then as regional director for Southern Europe. Thorsten Link, ...
