News Briefs – Page 26
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Rautureau hires Riccardo Ribolla as sales manager
The French company Rautureau Apple Shoes has hired Riccardo Ribolla to head its sales team. He started on May 11. Before moving to Rautureau, Ribolla worked for S&Co, a French distributor of fashion brands such as Elisabetta Franchi, M Missoni and TwinSet. Prior to that, he worked in Italy until ...
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Klaus Magele leaves Salamander Austria
Klaus Magele, chief executive of Salamander Austria, will be leaving the company after 25 years. Salamander Austria, which is owned by the Ara Group, manages the Salamnder stores in Austria as well as Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. The Delka shoe retail chain is also part of Salamander ...
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Zalando to appoint Rent the Runway CEO to its supervisory board
The nomination committee of the supervisory board of Zalando has proposed to elect Jennifer Hyman to the board replacing Alexander Samwer, who has been a director since 2013. Hyman is the chief executive and co-founder of the company Rent the Runway, a New York-based online service that provides designer dress ...
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Cat Footwear has a new global brand president
Cat Footwear, a division of Wolverine Worldwide, has appointed Chip Coe as its global brand president. He will be reporting to Chris Hufnagel, who belongs to Wolverine’s executive team and is global brand president of Merrell. Coe has been with Wolverine since 2010, serving as president of the Chaco brand ...
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ANWR Schuh appoints a new chief executive
Tobias Eichmeier was appointed joint chief executive of ANWR Schuh on May 1. He will be leading the German buying group shoe retailers together with Heike Discher. Eichmeier, 44, previously worked for Globetrotter, responsible for purchasing and the development of the German outdoor retail chain’s product range. Before that, he ...
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Rhenoflex names Marco de Gier director of marketing and sales
The German shoe component manufacturer Rhenoflex has appointed Marco de Gier as its new director of marketing and sales for global footwear. His task will be to guarantee “further professionalization of the global sales operations of the Rhenoflex Group, the expansion of international customer relations in the US, Europe and ...
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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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GM at Sanuk steps down
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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Zalando creates three executive 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. ...
