Latest News Briefs – Page 169
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VF appoints director for its foundation
VF Corp. has announced the appointment of Gloria Schoch as director of the VF Foundation & global impact. The VF Foundation is the private grant-making organization funded by VF Corp. In her new role, Schoch will lead the foundation’s support of non-profit organizations that promote sustainable and active lifestyles, as ...
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Toms appoints CEO
Toms, the charitable U.S. shoe brand, has appointed Magnus Wedhammar as its new chief executive, to succeed Jim Alling. Wedhammar was vice president and general manager at Sanuk until he left the company in December. Prior to that role, he was vice president of product at Sperry and also worked ...
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Sanuk's GM resigns
Magnus Wedhammar has left Sanuk. He had been the surf-inspired footwear brand’s general manager since July 2016, when it moved within California from Irvine to Goleta, the location of Deckers’ headquarters. Deckers purchased Sanuk – founded by Jeff Kelley in 1997 – for $120 million in cash in 2011. Before ...
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Alibaba's GM resigns
Terry von Bibra has recently resigned from his post at Alibaba, the Chinese online retailer. He joined Alibaba as general manager for Germany in 2015 and was appointed general manager Europe in 2016. Von Bibra worked previously as chief retail officer at Karstadt, where he was responsible for the company’s ...
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CCC Germany's joint managing director resigns
Henri Hampe, joint managing director of CCC Germany, the German branch of the fast-growing Polish retailing group that belongs to the HR Group, resigned on Jan. 31, after CCC Germany’s integration into the Hamm Reno Group got under way. Hampe’s resignation was by mutual agreement. In November 2018, CCC decided ...
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Caleres appoints president for Sam Edelman
Caleres has appointed John McPhee as president of the Sam Edelman brand. He will report directly to Sam Edelman, the brand’s founder. McPhee joins the American footwear group from Herman Miller Retail, where he has served as president and chief operating officer since 2010. He was president of Design Within ...
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Tod's signs Japanese designer
Tod’s has signed on the Japanese designer Maiko Kurogouchi to work for T Factory, a project launched in September 2018 to temporarily hire designers who can help the company provide more collections throughout the year. Tod’s previously worked with the designers Alessandro Dell’Acqua and Alber Elbaz. Kurogouchi designs her own ...
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Hotter's first head of product development and research
At the end of 2019, Giles Coulson became the first head of product development and research at Hotter, the British footwear producer. Coulson had just spent almost three years as head of product development at Hudson Shoe Agencies in Sri Lanka. Before that he spent another three years as vice ...
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EVP of Bernd Hummel moves to Uvex
Torsten Schmidt has moved to Uvex, the safety company. He was executive vice president and chief of operations at Bernd Hummel, in charge of Kangaroos. The position is said to have been filled internally, but we have not yet heard by whom.
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Tretorn Sweden appoints BU manager
Moving into the work and safety segment, Tretorn Sweden has appointed Peter Svensson as business unit manager for work & safety. He was previously the chief executive of Arbesko, the Swedish safety shoe company. Magnus Månsson, Tretorn’s CEO, intends to develop the category’s offering in the area of footwear and ...
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Former Bonvita CEO launches brand
Ulrik Schultz, recently chief executive at Bonvita of Denmark and responsible for its Bundgaard brand of children’s shoes, left the company in December. He is now launching a new children’s shoe brand, Pyt, made in Portugal and with emphasis on sustainability.
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Zalando creates three SVP posts
Strengthening the management level below the executive board, Zalando created three new positions to join its seven senior vice presidents. Anne Pascual was promoted to senior vice president of product design, and Astrid Arndt was appointed SVP for people and organization. Both have been with the company for several years. ...
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Birkenstock introduces collection
Birkenstock unveiled its latest collection at Sole DXB, Dubai’s biggest street festival, on Dec. 5-7. The annual Sole DXB festival serves as a regional platform for footwear, fashion and arts. The launch, within the framework of Birkenstock’s international expansion strategy, took place shortly ahead of the brand’s entrance into the ...
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Carlos Wizard Martins acquires Alpargatas Argentina
The Brazilian businessman Carlos Wizard Martins has acquired the entirety of Alpargatas S.A.I.C. of Argentina, and with it the worldwide rights to the Topper brand of athletic footwear. The similarly named Alpargatas S.A. will remain a separate operation in Brazil. In September 2018 Wizard Martins paid $24 million for a ...
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Insolvent, Fritzi aus Preußen presents new investor
After the opening of insolvency proceedings on Dec. 30, Fritzi aus Preußen, the German-based manufacturer of shoes and bags, presented a new investor. EinsPlusVier from Hannover will take over all contracts that are relevant to them with immediate effect. The local court of Hannover opened insolvency proceedings under self-administration. After ...
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Report issued on bankruptcy of SLEM
The final report on the bankruptcy of SLEM, the Shoe Leather Education Museum in Waalwijk, Netherlands, has been issued, over two years after it took place. In July 2017, the curtain fell on the SLEM foundation as its ambitions proved too expensive. The municipality decided to distance itself from the ...
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Comyp files for debt refinancing
On Jan. 10, an Italian shoe manufacturer, Comyp, filed for a debt refinancing arrangement with a Padua-based court. The court granted the company 120 days to present a debt refinancing proposal, according to the site ilnordestquotidiano.it. The company was created in the 90s and has produced shoes under the brand ...
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Genesco to move its headquarters
In about a year, Genesco will be moving its headquarters within the city of Nashville from Murfreesboro Road, where they have been since 1965, to Marriott Drive. There the footwear retailer and wholesaler will occupy about two-thirds of a 310,000-square-foot building. The company estimates that the move will create jobs ...
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La Halle plans to restructure
La Halle, part of the Vivarte group, is planning a new restructuring plan that would cut 101 jobs at its logistics department and headquarters. The plan will affect 63 jobs out of 467 at the Parisian headquarters and 38 jobs out of 300 at the logistical center in Issoudun, in ...
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Vivarte confirms sale of San Marina
Reaching the probable end of its slimming-down process, the French Vivarte group has confirmed the sale of its San Marina chain of shoe shops and of a logistics subsidiary, SMC Services, to two French entrepreneurs, Thierry Le Guénic and Stéphane Collaert, and an investment firm, Société d’Investissement Grimonprez (SIG). They ...
