News Briefs – Page 25
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Samuel Deichmann joins operational management team
Samuel Deichmann, 27, has joined the six-member operational management team of the family-owned Deichmann group. Since Aug. 1, he is in charge of digital innovation, investments and corporate development, including parts of the physical retailing activity. Samuel Deichmann is the fourth generation of the family involved in the German footwear ...
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Timberland hires new VP of global marketing
Timberland hired Drieke Leenknegt in June to be its vice president of global marketing and join its global leadership team. She is succeeding Argu Secilmis, who has become vice president of global apparel. Leenknegt will be liaising with the brand’s marketing regional teams, in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe, the ...
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Canada Goose sends a signal with strategic hire of GM Footwear
Canada Goose appointed Adam Meek to the new role of general manager of footwear & accessories. Meek brings more than 20 years of global footwear experience to this role. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of product at Sperry (Wolverine Worldwide), where he led global product teams in ...
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Luis Onofre re-elected president of Apiccaps
Luis Onofre was re-elected for three years as president of Apiccaps, the Portuguese association grouping manufacturers of footwear, components and leathergoods. Onofre said that at a time when Europe is discussing its reindustrialization it is important that Portugal creates the conditions to ”definitively assert itself as a leader in the ...
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News briefsSperry names Sean McDowell VP in charge of design and product development
Sperry, a division of Wolverine Worldwide, has appointed Sean McDowell as vice president of design and product development. He will report to Joelle Grunberg, global brand president of Sperry and a member of Wolverine Worldwide’s executive leadership team . McDowell has worked for three decades in the footwear industry, of ...
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News briefsPrada appoints Christopher Bugg group communications director
Prada has appointed Christopher Bugg as communications director for the group and will report to Lorenzo Bertelli, the Italian fashion group’s head of marketing. Bugg joined the group in January 2020 as Prada’s marketing and communication director for Asia. Previously, he was the global digital communications director at Louis Vuitton ...
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Shoe Zone appoints Peter Foot finance director
Shoe Zone has appointed Peter Foot as finance director, with effect from July 6. He will replace Jonathan Fearn, who held the job for over four years and whose resignation has been accepted with effect from July 31. Foot is due to become a board member of the British ...
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News briefsEarth Shoes appoints Jocelyn Thornton VP of product and merchandising
Earth Shoes has appointed Jocelyn Thornton to the new post of executive vice president of product and merchandising and Fred Allard as creative director of product. Before joining Earth Jones, Thornton was senior vice president of creative and merchandising strategy at the fashion and retail consultancy Doneger Group for over ...
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Deckers appoints Victor Luis to its board
Deckers Brands has appointed Victor Luis to its board of directors to replace James Quinn, who has yielded the seat he gained in 2011. Luis was chief executive and a board member of the former Coach from 2014 to 2019, during its transition to a new name: Tapestry. The company ...
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Golden Goose names Maureen Chiquet chair
Golden Goose has appointed Chanel’s former chief executive Maureen Chiquet as non-executive chairwoman, replacing Patrizio Di Marco. The announcement was made as the British private equity group Permira completed its previously announced acquisition of a majority stake in the Italian producer of upscale sneakers from its U.S. peer Carlyle, which ...
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News briefsBreuer returns to Lorenz Shoe as global sales director for Högl
Högl Shoe Fashion, the Austrian shoe brand that is part of the Lorenz Shoe Group, has appointed Walter Breuer to the position of global sales director. As a new member of the company’s executive board, Breuer will support Gerhard Bachmaier and Patrick Lorenz, managing partners at Högl, from July 1. ...
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Christian Prazzoli is the new CEO of Baldinini
The Italian high-end shoemaker Baldinini has appointed Christian Prazzoli as its chief executive, while the company’s previous helmsman, Gimmi Baldinini, will continue as chairman. The appointment comes after the Bologna-based company Finross, owned by the Rossetti family, earlier this year bought a 60 percent stake in Baldinini for €13 million ...
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Spanish footwear employers, unions call for more help
The Spanish employers association Fice and the trade unions CCOO and UGT met on June 16 to analyze the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the footwear industry and have called on the authorities to help by extending the temporary lay-off mechanism ERTES at least until the end of the ...
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Cole Haan has a new VP of North American wholesale
Cole Haan has appointed Andrew Rudolph as senior vice president of North American wholesale sales, preparing the American casual footwear brand for its entry into the sporting goods retail channel. Rudolph spent the past five years as vice president of sales at Adidas, his home since at least 2007, generating ...
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News briefsMerrell names new chief marketing officer
Merrell has announced the appointment of Janice Tennant as chief marketing officer. She will be reporting directly to the brand’s global brand president, Chris Hufnagel, and joining its senior leadership team. Tennant has more than 18 years of global brand-building experience, most recently serving as chief marketing officer for Cat ...
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Galeria's CEO Stephan Fanderl is expected to leave
Stephan Fanderl is said to be leaving the position of chief executive of Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof (Galeria), the holding company formed in 2018 from the merger of the Galeria Kaufhof and Karstadt department stores. He has suggested a consensual separation to the Austrian-based Signa Retail Group, parent company of Galeria, ...
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Daniel Kraus leaves Bernd Hummel
On May 31, Daniel Kraus left Bernd Hummel, the German-based licensee of Kangaroos and owner of the Flip Flop brand. In May 2018, Bernd Hummel had appointed Kraus to the newly created position of vice president for sales and marketing, responsible for sales of the Kangaroos and Flip Flop brands ...
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Klekt taps Sally Scott as first CEO
Online sneaker and streetwear marketplace Klekt hired Sally Scott to be its chief executive, a newly created position at the group. Scott comes to Klekt from beauty box subscription service Birchbox, where she was UK managing director from July 2018 until February 2020.
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Walter Breuer to leave Think!
Walter Breuer, long-time chief executive of Think!, is leaving. This shoe brand is owned and managed by Legero United, the Austrian-based footwear group that also markets brands such as Superfit, Legero and Vios. Legero United is integrating Think! into the sales organization of its Superfit and Legero shoe brands, and ...
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Felix Finger has left the HR Group
Felix Finger, a member of the executive board of the Hamm-Reno Group, left the German shoe retailing company on March 31 by mutual agreement. He was responsible for IT, logistics and e-commerce. Finger joined the HR Group in 2002 and was mainly responsible for the development of the group’s online ...
