All Executive changes articles – Page 81
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Skechers USA is going to start handling its own business...
Skechers USA is going to start handling its own business in Japan with its own subsidiary, Skechers Japan. Hirokazu Iwasaki, who has worked previously with Nike, Adidas and Puma, will lead the Japanese operations, which plans to fully enter the market with the coming fall/winter collection. Skechers hopes to double ...
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Wolverine Worldwide has promoted Elliot Brown to the position of...
Wolverine Worldwide has promoted Elliot Brown to the position of Northern European sales director for its lifestyle and heritage brands. He was most recently U.K. sales manager for the division. Prior to that, he was the managing director of Converse in the U.K. and sales director of Levi Strauss in ...
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TP Sports will market the boots of LaCrosse Footwear in...
TP Sports will market the boots of LaCrosse Footwear in Germany
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Beverly Felmann has a new distributor in Greece, Sorbet in...
Beverly Felmann has a new distributor in Greece, Sorbet in Fashion, which already markets Arche in the country
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Massimo Donda has been confirmed as president of Federcalzature, the...
Massimo Donda has been confirmed as president of Federcalzature, the Italian shoe retailers' association, with 77% of the votes
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Genesco has appointed Thurgood Marshall Jr. to its board of...
Genesco has appointed Thurgood Marshall Jr. to its board of directors. He is a partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP in Washington, D.C., and has held numerous U.S. government posts.
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The Italian shoe designer Alberto Del Biondi has stopped his...
The Italian shoe designer Alberto Del Biondi has stopped his 10-year-old collaboration with Pirelli PZero
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Achim Leidel is leaving as country manager of Scholl Footwear...
Achim Leidel is leaving as country manager of Scholl Footwear for Germany, Austria and Switzerland
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The Adidas Group has promoted Tobias Reiss-Schmidt, 38, to the...
The Adidas Group has promoted Tobias Reiss-Schmidt, 38, to the position of president and chief executive of Rockport, with effect from July 1. He will continue until then as senior vice president of Rockport for global retail and the Americas. Reiss-Schmidt has been with the company since 2008, holding various ...
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Move On will not have a stand at the Micam...
Move On will not have a stand at the Micam and GDS shows this month, but the Aerosoles brand will be there as before. As we have previously reported, the Portuguese company has decided to stop selling shoes under its Move On brand name and to go back to the ...
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Nicola McLeod is the new general manager of Walter's Shoe...
Nicola McLeod is the new general manager of Walter's Shoe Care, a supplier of high-quality shoe care and foot comfort products based in Toronto. She is tasked with expanding the business globally, and will also sit on the board of the parent company, E.F. Walter. McLeod has worked in the ...
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Tss Scandinavia, the Swedish company run by John Kilborn, has...
Tss Scandinavia, the Swedish company run by John Kilborn, has taken on the agency for Airwalk in the Scandinavian countries
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Hevea, which owns the Dunlop brand for protective footwear, has...
Hevea, which owns the Dunlop brand for protective footwear, has a new chief executive, Allard Bijlsma. He is taking over the helm from Peter Traas, who has successfully built up the brand in the last 15 years and is now joining Hevea's board of directors. Bijlsma already joined the company ...
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Shepherd, a Swedish brand of sheepskin footwear, is entering the...
Shepherd, a Swedish brand of sheepskin footwear, is entering the British market via the distribution company of Edward Barnes
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Base London continues to make new inroads into the other...
Base London continues to make new inroads into the other markets. The 17-year-old British footwear brand has announced new agency agreements with Show Too in Italy, Peoples Concept in Belgium, Silverplate in the Netherlands and Five Stars in Spain, adding to those that it signed earlier in Germany and France. ...
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Clarks has appointed Helen Thomson to the new role of...
Clarks has appointed Helen Thomson to the new role of European Region director, reporting go Ken Dobinson, the company's international director. She previously ran Clark's successful international store franchising program. The Europe Region is one of four operational regions created by Clarks, somewhat on the model of Ecco. The others ...
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Airwalk is entering the Indian market through a local manufacturing...
Airwalk is entering the Indian market through a local manufacturing company, Wiesner Worldwide Creations, which will use the brand name for a line of children's shoes and clothing
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Mephisto has a new agent in Sweden, Gabriëlle Zwart of...
Mephisto has a new agent in Sweden, Gabriëlle Zwart of Maran Shoes
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Italy's Ciao Bimbi has a new agent in France, IFC...
Italy's Ciao Bimbi has a new agent in France, IFC
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Lloyd Shoes has recruited a sales director for France, who...
Lloyd Shoes has recruited a sales director for France, who is setting up a sales network in the country. The man is Jacky Bellemin. He has previously worked for other important brands such as Geox and Replay.
