News Briefs – Page 12
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Deichmann hires new digital director from About You
The German footwear company Deichmann has hired a new digital director in a bid to further expand its online business. Alexander Bellin, 33, previously chief revenue officer at the online fashion retailer About You, will join the Essen-based shoe chain on February 1. He will take the helm of ...
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Bally hires a new creative director
Bally has appointed Rhuigi Villaseñor as its new creative director. He will oversee the artistic direction across the brand and his first collection for the brand is scheduled for the spring-summer 2023 season. A Filipino-American, Villaseñor was born in Manila and emigrated to the U.S. aged nine. He has been ...
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Church’s has a new CEO
The Prada Group has appointed Denni Manzatto as the CEO of Church’s & Co, the luxury British footwear brand bought by the Italian fashion house in 1999. The appointment is effective from January and Manzatto replaces Anthony Romano, who was with Church’s since 2017. Manzatto has been with the ...
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Paul Green has a new management team
Paul Green has appointed a team of new managing directors as part of a generational change at the Austrian footwear manufacturer, which specializes in women’s shoes. From Jan. 1, Barbara Aichinger, who is responsible of sales and marketing, Jürgen Posch, who oversees production, Torsten Tesche, who is charge of ...
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Source: Ecco USA Tom Berry Danish footwear brand Ecco has appointed Tom Berry as president and CEO of Ecco USA, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire, effective immediately. After more than 20 years with the brand, former president Dave Quel had announced his retirement last summer, with CFO ...
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Sergio Rossi appoints Evangelie Smyrniotaki as artistic director
The Italian shoe maker Sergio Rossi has appointed Evangelie Smyrniotaki, the founder in 2011 of the fashion blog Style Heroine, as its new artistic director. Smyrniotaki has frequently collaborated with high-end fashion brands such as Chanel, Prada and Versace. She will manage the brand’s image, including the supervision of the ...
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CTC names Françoise Nicolas as general director
Centre Technique du Cuir (CTC), the French-based research and training group that redistributes funds collected among its members to support the national leather industry, has appointed Françoise Nicolas as its general director. Her primary objectives will be to support the leather industry in digital transition, sustainable development and skills management. ...
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Eram appoints a new head for its downtown stores
The French footwear retailer Eram has appointed Antony Bâcle to head its retail business, which includes the group’s Eram, Texto, Bocage and Mellow Yellow stores, operating in downtown areas. Bâcle, who has been with the Eram group for nearly 13 years, was previously in charge of operations for the business, ...
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Aeffe’s managing director leaves
Marcello Tassinari, the managing director of Aeffe, the Italian fashion house that owns Pollini and other brands, reached an agreement for the ”consensual termination” of his employment with the company, with a termination date set on Dec. 31, 2021. Tassinari had been with the company for over 19 years, of ...
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Michele Norsa to leave Ferragamo at year end
Salvatore Ferragamo’s executive vice chairman Michele Norsa will leave on Dec. 31, 2021, ahead of the arrival of the company’s new chief executive, Marco Gobbetti, who starts on Jan. 1, 2022. Norsa was the company’s CEO from 2006 to 2016. He rejoined the company in May 2020 to help ...
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Former Nike footwear product manager joins Arc’teryx
Arc’teryx has appointed Ovidio Garcia as vice president of footwear. He will be reporting directly to Katie Becker, Arc’teryx’ chief creative officer. Garcia brings 15 years of experience at Nike in product management, merchandising and product operations for footwear on a global scale, most recently as global footwear product operations ...
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Higg appoints a chief strategy officer to lead the platform’s expansion
Higg, the environmental software platform responsible for the Higg Index, has appointed James Schaffer as chief strategy officer to lead business development and partnerships. Schaffer’s experience in developing industry initiatives in the apparel sector, where Higg’s platform is widely used, is expected to be instrumental in guiding the company’s expansion ...
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Inditex reshuffles its top management
Inditex, the Spanish group that owns the brands Zara, Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho and Uterqüe, has appointed Oscar Garcia Maceiras as chief executive, effective immediately. Maceiras joined Inditex of March this year, and has served as general counsel and secretary of the board. He is replacing Carlos Crespo, ...
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Paciotti names Diego Dolcini head of women’s footwear
Diego Dolcini was appointed rebranding and design director for women’s footwear at Paciotti, an Italian producer of luxury footwear. Dolcini has nearly three decades of experience in the luxury and fashion sector. According to his LinkedIn account he is creative director and owner of his namesake brand since 1994 and ...
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Saucony hires Brian Moore as global product head
Saucony, part of the Wolverine Worldwide group, has appointed footwear industry veteran Brian Moore as senior vice president of global product, effective immediately. In his new role, Moore will be responsible for Saucony’s global brand footwear and apparel strategies, including design, development and product innovation. Moore will report directly to ...
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VF appoints new investor relations head
VF Corp. has appointed Allegra Perry to the position of vice president, investor relations, effective Jan. 2022. She will report to VF’s chief financial officer, Matt Puckett, and work closely with the group’s executive leadership team and executives across the company’s 12 brands, including The North Face, Timberland, Vans and ...
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Keen reorganizes German sales team
Ralph Hermann, so far Keen’s representative in Baden-Württemberg with his agency “Die Berg Agenten”, will be Keen’s new country manager for Germany. Baden-Württemberg as well as Bavaria will be taken over from fall/winter 2022 by the agency Frotscher, which also looks after brands such as Havaianas, CMP, Inuovo and Hoff ...
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Crocs has two new SVPs
Crocs has hired Lori Foglia as senior vice president and chief product and merchandising officer. Foglia brings nearly 25 years of product, merchandising and retail experience to the company. She previously worked at Victoria’s Secret, where she spent nearly five years overseeing product merchandising for more than 1,000 stores, as ...
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Burberry appoints a new CEO
The British luxury fashion company Burberry has appointed Jonathan Akeroyd as chief executive and executive director, effective April 1, 2022. He will replace Marco Gobbetti, who is stepping down on Dec. 31 to join Salvatore Ferragamo as CEO and general manager. Burberry’s chairman Gerry Murphy will chair the company’s executive ...
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Caleres hires a new head of customer marketing
Suzy Cirulis has joined Caleres as senior vice president in charge of customer marketing. In this role, she will lead the company’s customer marketing efforts across the entire Caleres portfolio including customer relationship marketing, customer insights and customer analytics. She was most recently chief marketing officer at Crate and Barrel. ...
