All Executive changes articles – Page 67
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Joachim Trender, who comes from the shopping mall business, replaced...
Joachim Trender, who comes from the shopping mall business, replaced Emil Freund as a member of the executive board at Werdich on July 1. He will be working together with Friedrich and Peter Werdich, who have been members of the executive board since 2003. Emil Freund Freund will continue to ...
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Jan Guldbæk, who was previously in charge of international sales...
Jan Guldbæk, who was previously in charge of international sales at Sanita, is now working for another Danish brand, Kawasaki
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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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Hermès International has appointed Paula Gerbase to the new position...
Hermès International has appointed Paula Gerbase to the new position of artistic director for John Lobb. Andrés Hernandes remains artistic director of the brand. Their first joint line of shoes will shown at the London Collections next January. While working for John Lobb, Gerbase will continue to take care of ...
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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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Max Oriental is looking for a new president and chief...
Max Oriental is looking for a new president and chief executive for Highline United, the company that owns or licenses the Ash, French Connection, Luxury Rebel and Elie Tahari brands, following the resignation of Rick Paterno. Based in New York, Paterno has effectively reorganized Highline United's American and international business ...
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Reiner Schröder joined Rexor this month. He will be working...
Reiner Schröder joined Rexor this month. He will be working for the German buying group controlled by ANWR in the segment of comfort and orthopedic shoes. He was previously a sales representative for Berkemann, Spiess and Schein in Germany.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mads Hahnemann, 49, has assumed the responsibilities of Alex Nicolai...
Mads Hahnemann, 49, has assumed the responsibilities of Alex Nicolai as head of the sports business unit of Ecco, covering its athletic and outdoor shoes, but not its golf footwear. Hahnemann has been with the Danish group for 14 years, working in logistics, sales, business planning and product management. Prior ...
