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Fice names a new Secretary General
Fice, the Spanish association of shoemakers, has appointed Salvador Gómez as Secretary General, replacing Marián Cano. Gómez is currently Secretary General of Calzia, the association representing footwear manufacturers of Spain’s Murcia region. He has more than 20 years of experience in management, consulting and business representation in the footwear industry. ...
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Shoes For Crews names a new CEO
Shoes For Crews, a US firm specializing in slip-resistant footwear, appointed Chris Quinn as Chief Executive Officer effective Jan. 1, 2025. He has experience in the retail, e-commerce, footwear and apparel industries and has served as a director of Shoes For Crews since August 2024. Quinn replaces Donald Watros, who ...
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Bata names a Chief Design Officer
Bata appointed Miguel Esquide as Chief Design Officer. “Miguel’s experience, spanning two decades with renowned brands, will be central to shaping Bata’s creative direction and strengthening its brand identity,” commented the Lausanne-based footwear group. Esquide’s career includes the co-founding of the luxury brand 1Concept, as well as leading footwear design ...
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ArticleBoohoo’s shareholders reject Mike Ashley’s bid for board seat
Boohoo’s shareholders have thwarted a bid by major shareholder and Frasers Group founder Mike Ashley to take a seat on the board of the struggling British online fashion retailer after they voted against the move in a special meeting. In a statement, Boohoo said that 64 percent of votes cast ...
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Joybees names Ken Dayley CEO
Joybees said that its board has named Ken Dayley as Chief Executive Officer. The casual lifestyle footwear brand was founded in 2018 in Denver, Colorado. “Mr. Dayley has more than 15 years of experience successfully marketing and growing well-known direct-to-consumer brands through strategic digital transformations, achieving profitable growth and thriving ...
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Salamander reorganizes its sales team
The Swiss shoe manufacturer AstorMueller AG has reorganized the sales department of the Salamander brand, which it acquired last year. Wholesale and e-commerce expert Pia Fuhrländer will be responsible for European sales. Fuhrländer has more than 20 years of experience in the fashion, footwear and lifestyle industry. From 2013 to ...
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Sonja Balodis leaves s.Oliver
The German footwear brand s.Oliver announced that Sonja Balodis, Managing Director of its Comma womenswear brand, will leave the company at the end of the year to pursue new professional challenges. Balodis has been in charge of the brand since May. She was already part of the s.Oliver Group for ...
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Vista starts fall/winter 2025/26 sales campaign with a new agent for Bavaria
The German footwear company Vista is starting the fall/winter 2025/26 sales campaign with a new agent for Bavaria. In the future, Stephan Simon’s Agentur Simon will be looking after the shoe importer, wholesaler and manufacturer’s customers in Bavaria from its Munich office. It replaces the Agentur Lehner, which was previously ...
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Birkenstock appoints new Head of sports and outdoor Europe
Birkenstock has hired Selim Say as Head of sports and outdoor Europe. The 52-year-old, who announced his appointment on his LinkedIn page, brings a wealth of experience in the footwear industry. He worked for more than 20 years in various positions in the footwear industry, including for companies such as ...
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Sabu appoints new senior buyer
The German shoe retail cooperative Sabu has hired a new senior buyer. Marc Meyer took on the new role on Dec. 1 and is now responsible for supplier partnership management, collection sourcing, purchasing analysis and the creation of Sabu programs and ordering recommendations for the Sabu stores, the cooperative said ...
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Merrell hires a new Chief Product Officer as it expands into lifestyle
Merrell, the hiking and outdoor footwear brand owned by Wolverine Worldwide, hired Noreen Naroo-Pucci as Chief Product Officer to lead its expansion into the lifestyle segment. “As a global thinker and executive with multi-cultural experience, Naroo-Pucci will apply her skills to Merrell’s expansion as a lifestyle brand. Merrell’s strategic move ...
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ArticleEcco has a new CEO
Ecco’s CEO, Panos Mytaros, has stepped down and been replaced by the group’s Chief Commercial Officer, Thomas Gøgsig. No explanation was given regarding the change at the helm. However, since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the Danish footwear group has been criticized by the country’s Prime Minister, ...
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ArticleOtto Group changes legal status
The German mail order company Otto, owner of the Freemans, About You, Bonprix and Evri businesses, among others, is preparing to change its legal form and streamline its corporate structure as a generational handover gets underway. “In the course of the forthcoming generational change at the helm of the Otto ...
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Michael Kors reorganizes its management
Capri Holdings reorganized the management of its leading brand, Michael Kors. John Idol, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capri, will assume the role of CEO of the brand, effective Dec. 2. Cedric Wilmotte, who had been CEO of Michael Kors since April 2023, will leave the company after ...
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Wolverine Worldwide appoints a Chief Product Officer for its Work Group
Wolverine Worldwide’s Work Group has named Mike Maloney as its new Chief Product Officer, effective immediately. Maloney, a footwear industry veteran with nearly two decades of experience at top brands including Adidas, Under Armour and Columbia Sportswear, will oversee product development, merchandising strategy and market expansion for the Work Group’s ...
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OrthoLite expands its Indian business
OrthoLite has significantly expanded its operations in India with a larger manufacturing facility in Ambur, Tamil Nadu, and a new sales office in Chennai. This growth comes as part of the company’s strategy to meet increased demand under new leadership and to support its growing brand partnerships in the region. ...
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P448 hires Rocco Bennici as CFO, COO
P448 has hired Rocco Bennici for the newly created job of Chief Financial and Operating Officer. He will report to Wayne Kulkin, the Executive Chairman of StreetTrend LLC, the parent company of the Italian sneaker brand. Bennici will lead the finance, treasury, IT and logistics divisions as well as P448’s ...
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ArticleBoohoo appoints a new chairman
Boohoo’s Co-Founder Mahmud Kamani has been shifted from his role as Chairman to become Executive Vice Chair, with a board member, Tim Morris, appointed as independent Chairman amid ongoing calls from Frasers Group, a major shareholder in the British online fast fashion retailer, to have Kamani removed completely. In his ...
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ArticleAndreas Wortmann becomes AstorMueller's CEO
The Swiss shoe manufacturer AstorMueller has appointed Andreas Wortmann as its new Chief Executive Officer. He takes the job over from the company’s owner, Tim T. Müller, who will continue to “guide” the company as Chairman. Wortmann joins the company from Ara AG, where he served as CEO from 2018 ...
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Baak hires a Head of Sales & Marketing
Baak, the German manufacturer of safety shoes, has appointed Johannes Ernst to the newly created position of Head of Sales & Marketing to consolidate and strengthen its sales and marketing activities. In this role, Ernst will report directly to the management team, led jointly by Christian and Ingo Grusa ...
