News Briefs – Page 15
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JD Sports appoints a new CFO
JD Sports Fashion has announced the appointment of Dominic Platt as its new chief financial officer (CFO) and as a member of the board. Platt is expected to join the British retailer later this year. Platt is currently CFO of BGL Group, one of the U.K.’s leading digital distributors of ...
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Markus Dielmann joins Fashion Cloud’s sales team
Markus Dielmann has joined the B2B solutions provider Fashion Cloud. The Hamburg-based company hired Dielmann earlier this month to strengthen its sales team. The shoe professional, who has many years of experience in purchasing, sales and logistics, will be in charge of establishing data exchange and digital orders for ...
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OrthoLite Cirql hires a director of development and commercialization
OrthoLite, the U.S.manufacturer and provider of insoles and material solutions for footwear, has appointed Marc Kronenberg as director of development and commercialization for OrthoLite Cirql, a plastic-free, recyclable, biodegradable and industrially compostable foam technology. Kronenberg brings to the OrthoLite Cirql team more than two decades of global footwear manufacturing experience, ...
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JD Sports creates new global leadership position
JD Sports Fashion appointed Michael Armstrong to the newly created position of global managing director to drive growth and advance expansion plans internationally, particularly in the North American and European markets, to become the “leading global sports-fashion powerhouse.” Armstrong will work under CEO Régis Schultz to oversee JD’s strategic direction, ...
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Zalando names Kelly Bennett chairman of the supervisory board
Zalando’s nomination committee has proposed a new composition of the supervisory board for the annual general meeting, which will be held virtually in Berlin on May 24, 2023. Current vice chairman Kelly Bennett, who has been a member of the board since 2019, would take over as chairman from Cristina ...
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Bata India hires a new CFO
Bata India announced that on April 3 Anil Somani started as chief financial officer. He joins the footwear company from Reliance Digital Retail, where Somani was CFO for nearly six years. Previously, Somani was CFO at Infiniti Retail, a provider of technology products, services and solutions part of the Tata ...
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Asos appoints two non-executive directors
Asos has appointed Natasja Laheij and Jose Manuel Martinéz Gutiérrez as independent non-executive directors to its board as of April 11, 2023. Laheij has more than 25 years of experience in international commercial & financial management, e-commerce, tech, consumer electronics, telco and retail in B2C and B2B environments through her ...
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Clarks's U.K., European head steps down
Clarks’s managing director for the U.K., Ireland, the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Joe Ulloa, has stepped down. Ulloa joined the British footwear group in 2017 as retail and franchise director for the U.K. and Europe. He was promoted managing director of the U.K. and Ireland in ...
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Boot Barn's COO retires
Boot Barn Holdings said that Gregory V. Hackman, its executive vice president and chief operating officer, plans to retire later this year. He will continue with the U.S. footwear retailer until his retirement date, currently estimated for June, and transition his responsibilities to other executives. Hackman has been Boot Barn’s ...
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Boohoo appoints a new deputy chairman
Boohoo has appointed Alistair McGeorge as a non executive director. He will succeed Brian Small as the deputy chairman of the British online fashion retailer from March 31. McGeorge will also act as interim chair of the audit committee until the search for an additional non-executive director to fulfill the ...
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Macy’s head to retire in February 2024
Macy’s said that its chairman and chief executive officer, Jeff Gennette, plans to retire in February 2024 after serving the company for 40 years. It added that Tony Spring, Macy’s’ executive vice president and Bloomingdale’s chairman and chief executive officer, has been appointed by the board of directors as the ...
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Dr. Martens appoints a new board member
Dr. Martens said that Andrew Harrison will join the board of the British footwear brand as an independent non-executive director with effect from May 1. Harrison is a managing partner at the consumer brand investment firm Freston Ventures and senior independent director at Ocado Group, a British company providing technology ...
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SMCP names a new CEO for Maje
SMCP, the French fashion group that owns the brands Sandro, Maje, Claudie Pierlot and Fursac, is appointing Elina Kousourna chief executive of Maje, effective April 17. Kousourna has been running the Fursac brand for three years and will replace Charlotte Tasset Ferrec, who has been CEO of Maje since January ...
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Shoe Carnival names a new CFO
Shoe Carnival has named Erik Gast as executive vice president, chief financial officer, effective April 24, 2023. Gast will join the U.S. footwear retailer from Fleet Farm Group, where he has been the executive vice president and chief financial officer since 2020. He succeeds W. Kerry Jackson, who will be ...
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Wolverine Worldwide names new chairman, directors
Tom Long, the lead independent director for Wolverine Worldwide and former CEO of MillerCoors, LLC, will become chairman of Wolverine on May 4 following the retirement of Blake Krueger, chairman and retired CEO. Meanwhile, earlier this week, the parent of the Merrell and Saucony brands, among others, named three ...
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Burberry names a new CFO
Burberry has appointed Kate Ferry as chief financial officer and executive director, joining the British luxury goods company by early September 2023 at the latest. She will be responsible for finance and business services functions and will become a member of Burberry’s board and executive committee. Ferry is currently CFO ...
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Gap makes management changes as it streamlines
Gap Inc., which manages the banners Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, announced several changes to its executive leadership team and additional cost-cutting measures. The U.S. retailer said that it will further simplify and optimize its operating mode, including decreasing management layers to improve the quality and speed of ...
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Roel Roelofs joins Hooijer Footwear Group to lead Jan Jansen Amsterdam brand
The footwear industry veteran Roel Roelofs joined Hooijer Footwear Group as managing director of the Jan Jansen Amsterdam brand on March 1. Roelofs will be in charge of all activities, from design to sales, and will focus, among other things, on further strengthening the collection and expanding sales abroad. ...
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News briefsLloyd revamps its sales structure
The German shoe maker Lloyd Shoes has revamped its sales structure as part of an organizational overhaul. The company is reorganizing its sales division in southwestern Germany, comprising the landers of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, and in Luxembourg starting from the autumn/winter 2023 sales season. Responsibilities for ...
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Snipes hires a general manager for Europe
Dennis Schröder, the chief marketing officer who just left 11teamsports, will take over the position of general manager for Europe at the sneaker specialist Snipes from May 1, 2023, supporting its founder and CEO Sven Voth in the day-to-day operations. In addition to Voth, CFO Tim Spickenbom and COO Peter ...
