News Briefs – Page 31
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Lloyd Shoes has promoted Andreas Schaller to a position similar...
Lloyd Shoes has promoted Andreas Schaller to a position similar to that of a chief executive as “speaker” of the executive board. He will focus on global brand management and product development, while driving the expansion of the German men's footwear manufacturer into women's shoes and accessories. Schaller has been ...
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Groupe Royer has named a German industry veteran, Alfred Pusswald,...
Groupe Royer has named a German industry veteran, Alfred Pusswald, as international sales director for the Scholl brand in Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA), responsible for establishing it more widely in the shoe retail segment. The French-based trading group acquired a license to market the brand at the ...
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Caprice, the shoe brand owned by Wortmann, has reorganized its...
Caprice, the shoe brand owned by Wortmann, has reorganized its middle management structure, effective from May 1. The newly created positions are filled by people who are already familiar with the German firm. Christian Burmeister, 33, was appointed head of international sales & e-commerce. He has held several positions at ...
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Genesco has appointed Mimi Eckel Vaughn as chief operating officer,...
Genesco has appointed Mimi Eckel Vaughn as chief operating officer, effective May 1. In addition to her new role, she will continue as chief financial officer until a new chief financial officer is named. Vaughn is a 15-year veteran of the company, which she joined in 2003 as vice-president of ...
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Alpargatas, which owns the Havaianas brand of rubber shoes, has...
Alpargatas, which owns the Havaianas brand of rubber shoes, has made Scott Ziegler its new retail director for Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA), with responsibility for the region's 170 Havaianas points of sale, from mono-brand stores to franchisees and concessions. Ziegler is no stranger to the region, having ...
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Zalando has announced that Christian Baier and Jan Wilmking, both...
Zalando has announced that Christian Baier and Jan Wilmking, both managing directors of zLabels, will be leaving the company. zLabels, the e-tailer's nine-year-old private label division, was closed on April 1, although the company has indicated that it will continue to offer “everyday essential” clothing and footwear products under 11 ...
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Kai Dirks is replacing Michael Stoll at the Hamm-Reno Group...
Kai Dirks is replacing Michael Stoll at the Hamm-Reno Group the end of April as the executive board member in charge of retailing. His tasks will include the repositioning of the Reno banner and the integration of the 80-odd CCC stores in Germany that the group took over a few ...
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Alpargatas, which owns the Havaianas brand of rubber shoes, has...
Alpargatas, which owns the Havaianas brand of rubber shoes, has made Scott Ziegler its new retail director for Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA), with responsibility for the region's 170 Havaianas points of sale, from mono-brand stores to franchisees and concessions. Ziegler is no stranger to the region, having ...
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Victor Herrero, a former chief executive of Guess, and Stephen...
Victor Herrero, a former chief executive of Guess, and Stephen Bolton, a former top executive of Unilever and Diageo, joined the board of directors of Clarks earlier this month as non-executive directors. Another new manager with experience in real estate and equity investment, Peter Clark, joined the board last November. ...
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Lars Hemming, a 45-year-old Danish expert in digital marketing, brand...
Lars Hemming, a 45-year-old Danish expert in digital marketing, brand building and transformation, is set to become a new member of Ecco's executive board at the Danish company's annual meeting on May 29. He will join the six other members of the executive board, led by Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak.
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Schuh has announced that its buying director, David Spencer, is...
Schuh has announced that its buying director, David Spencer, is leaving the company. Spencer spent 21 years at the Scotland-based footwear retailer.
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Zalando has announced that Christian Baier and Jan Wilmking, both...
Zalando has announced that Christian Baier and Jan Wilmking, both managing directors of zLabels, will be leaving the company. zLabels, the e-tailer's nine-year-old private label division, was closed on April 1, although the company has indicated that it will continue to offer “everyday essential” clothing and footwear products under 11 ...
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Salamander has appointed Jochen Haag, 51, to the executive board...
Salamander has appointed Jochen Haag, 51, to the executive board responsible for international retail operations, effective on April 1. The German-based shoe producer and retailer, which has been fully owned by the Ara Group since 2016, also appointed Jens Keller, manager of commercial operations at Salamander since 2012, as “speaker” ...
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Hunter Boots has appointed Mark Reed to the post of...
Hunter Boots has appointed Mark Reed to the post of chief financial officer. The former CFO, Benedict Smith, left the British company in August 2018 and is now group CFO at a marketing firm, Willams Lea Tag. Reed joins Hunter from Anya Hindmarch, a London-based accessories brand, where he had been CFO ...
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The Tod's brand has hired the designer Alber Elbaz to...
The Tod's brand has hired the designer Alber Elbaz to work on its Tod's Factory project, which involves the contribution of external designers on a rotating basis. Elbaz was creative director at the French fashion house of Lanvin from 2001 to 2015. He will be the second designer to take ...
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Ian Watson, who has run Start-Rite Shoes for the past...
Ian Watson, who has run Start-Rite Shoes for the past three years, has become the new chief executive of Hotter, the biggest British producer of comfort shoes. He has taken the place of Sara Prowse, who is stepping down from the role after three years in which she is credited ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo has promoted Paul Andrew to creative director. The...
Salvatore Ferragamo has promoted Paul Andrew to creative director. The English designer, who started off at the Italian company as women's footwear designer in 2016, had already taken charge of women's wear one year later. Christian Mainard will remain in charge of men's footwear and clothing, and he will also ...
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Salvatore Ferragamo registered a 25.5 percent drop in its 2018...
Salvatore Ferragamo registered a 25.5 percent drop in its 2018 net profit, excluding minorities, to €88.4 million and cut its full-year dividend to €0.34 per share from €0.38 a year earlier. Full-year sales were down by 3.3 percent to €1,347 million (see Shoe Intelligence Vol. 21 n° 3+4) and gross ...
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Tod's has hired Carlo Alberto Beretta as general brand manager,...
Tod's has hired Carlo Alberto Beretta as general brand manager, effective Feb. 25. He will report to the group's chief executive and general manager, Umberto Macchi di Cellere. Beretta's past experiences include chief client and marketing officer for Kering from September 2016 to November 2017 and chief executive officer for ...
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In February Ian Niblock was appointed general manager of Fagus,...
In February Ian Niblock was appointed general manager of Fagus, the German brand of lasts. Niblock replaces Kai Greten, managing partner of Fagus-GreCon Greten. Fagus has production sites in Germany, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Thailand and Belarus. Niblock has been working for the company since 2017 – first as innovations ...
