All Executive changes articles – Page 66
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Richard Moore has been appointed head of e-commerce at Cloggs,...
Richard Moore has been appointed head of e-commerce at Cloggs, the British online shoe retailer recently acquired by JD Sports Fashion, a diversified retail conglomerate controlled by Pentland Group. Moore takes the place of Jason Watkins and reports to Chris Thomas, managing director of Cloggs. He was previously head of ...
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Camper has appointed a Frenchman, Romain Kremer, to the new...
Camper has appointed a Frenchman, Romain Kremer, to the new position of creative director. He has already worked for the Spanish brand since 2009, creating special capsule collections in the framework of the Camper Together program. Born in 1982, he launched his own menswear collection at the beginning of 2006. ...
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Pentland Brands has appointed Richard Newcombe brand president for Lacoste...
Pentland Brands has appointed Richard Newcombe brand president for Lacoste Footwear. He takes the place of Andy Simister, who left the company last October. Newcombe has been in the footwear industry for 27 years. He joined Pentland in 2004, managing its private label business. He went on to act as ...
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Prada has promoted the 47-year-old Stefano Cantino to the new...
Prada has promoted the 47-year-old Stefano Cantino to the new position of marketing, communication and business development director, reporting directly to Patrizio Bertelli and Miuccia Prada. Cantino's brief includes the strategic development of Church's and the other brands of the group. He will also take care of licensing, wholesale development ...
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Two executives of Görtz have left the German shoe retailing...
Two executives of Görtz have left the German shoe retailing group, in which Afinum is set to acquire a 40 percent stake. One is Jörn Peters, joint managing director in charge of finance, whose four-year contract was due to expire at the end of this year. The other one is ...
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DSW has a new chief financial officer, Mary Meixelsperger, who...
DSW has a new chief financial officer, Mary Meixelsperger, who comes from a regional chain of discount stores, Shopko Stores
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Camilla Schiavone, who is the chief executive of Elsa Schiaparelli...
Camilla Schiavone, who is the chief executive of Elsa Schiaparelli since 2012, has added the role of managing director for Roger Vivier, the brand licensed by Tod's, according to WWD. The fashion house of Schiaparelli was taken over eight years ago by the president of Tod's, Diego della Valle.
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Grupo Priority, the Brazilian company that markets the West Coast...
Grupo Priority, the Brazilian company that markets the West Coast and Cravo + Canela brands of footwear, has appointed a new export manager, Diogo Zobaran (sic). Working closely with Eduard Smaniotto, the company's sales director, he takes the place of John Smith, who has left the company.
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Kering, parent company of Puma, Volcom, Gucci and other brands,...
Kering, parent company of Puma, Volcom, Gucci and other brands, has appointed Daniela Riccardi to be a member of its board directors. The 54-year-old executive has been running Baccarat since June 2013. She previously gained experience in business development and branding at Procter & Gamble, where she worked for 25 ...
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Tobias Zimmerer will join the executive board of Josef Seibel...
Tobias Zimmerer will join the executive board of Josef Seibel Holding on June 1, acting as one of its three managing directors, with a concentration on product development, sourcing and production. He handled largely the same domains while he acted as chief executive of Ara Shoes, a position that he ...
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Thomas Bast, currently co-chief executive officer of Quick Schuh with...
Thomas Bast, currently co-chief executive officer of Quick Schuh with Alfred Pusswald, will become chief operating officer of ANWR Garant International in Düsseldorf. Volker Gromer, currently division manager of the corporate management department of the ANWR group will succeed Bast in his former position at Quick Schuh. Bast will support the ...
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Anne-Marie Gaultier has been appointed by Bally to the new...
Anne-Marie Gaultier has been appointed by Bally to the new position of vice president of global marketing and communications. Based in London, she reports to Frédéric de Narp, who was appointed last September as chief executive of the Swiss company, owned by Labelux. Gaultier has been in charge of marketing ...
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Crocs has appointed a new president, Andrew Rees, who founded...
Crocs has appointed a new president, Andrew Rees, who founded an led a global management consulting company for 14 years after working at Reebok International as vice president of strategic polanning and vice president of retail operations. Crocs' current chairman, Tom Smach, has agreed to act as interim chief executive ...
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Alan White, who retired as chief executive of N Brown...
Alan White, who retired as chief executive of N Brown at the end of last year, has been appointed chairman of Hotter Shoes, following the recently reported investment by a private equity firm, Electra, in the British producer of comfort shoes. White, who is also serving as a non-executive director ...
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Lorenzo Grabbau is replacing Mia Brunell as chief executive of...
Lorenzo Grabbau is replacing Mia Brunell as chief executive of Kinnevik, the main shareholder in Zalando and other companies. The Italian manager is already on the board of directors of some of these companies, including Zalando. A former partner in Goldman Sachs, he has been running for almost three years ...
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Native Shoes, the five-year-old Canadian brand of foam-injected EVA shoes,...
Native Shoes, the five-year-old Canadian brand of foam-injected EVA shoes, has boosted its product management team. Silvana Rivadeneiera, who has spent 14 years in the footwear industry, working with suppliers from around the world, most recently at John Fluevog, has joined the company as product line manager. Kevin Reid, who ...
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Hans-Hermann Deters has informed the supervisory board of Ara Shoes...
Hans-Hermann Deters has informed the supervisory board of Ara Shoes that he will not extend his contract as executive board member in charge of sales and marketing after it expires on July 31, 2014. Deters, who joined Ara three years ago after serving in senior roles at Reebok and Kettler, ...
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Nicole Stark has been appointed product manager of BNS Bergal,...
Nicole Stark has been appointed product manager of BNS Bergal, the German company behind the Nico and Solitaire brands of footwear accessories, responsible especially for branding and internationalization
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Matthias Grevener, member of the executive board of the ANWR...
Matthias Grevener, member of the executive board of the ANWR Group and chief executive officer of ANWR Garant International, is now chairman of the supervisory board of Rexor. In this position, he succeeds Robert Natter, who already left the executive board of ANWR Garant International on March 30 to go ...
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Deckers Outdoor has announced the appointment of two senior executives...
Deckers Outdoor has announced the appointment of two senior executives who will work on the continued expansion of the company's omni-channel infrastructure and resources. Brad Willis has been appointed senior vice president, information technology. He was previously chief information officer and vice president of information technology at West Marine, where ...
