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ArticleAlibaba’s chairman and CEO resigns to focus on Alibaba Cloud
Daniel Zhang has unexpectedly resigned as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group. He has served as CEO for the past eight years and as chairman for the past four years. The successors for the two vacant positions have already been determined: Joseph C. Tsai, currently executive vice chairman, will succeed ...
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Santoni appoints Eraldo Poletto as CEO
Santoni has appointed Eraldo Poletto as chief executive, the first non-member of the Santoni family to hold the position. With the appointment, Giuseppe Santoni transitions to chairman and executive president of the family-owned Italian brand of high-end shoes. Poletto, who is already a member of Santoni’s board, is a veteran ...
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Bally names Simone Bellotti as design director
Bally has appointed Simone Bellotti as design director, replacing Rhuigi Villasenor who left the company in May after a tenure of just over a year. He will debut his first collection during the Milan Fashion Week in September. Bellotti spent 16 years at Gucci before joining Bally in October 2022. ...
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Sorel’s president steps down
Columbia Sportswear Company announced that Mark Nenow, president of the Sorel brand, has resigned to focus on his health. Nenow joined the company in 2007 to lead footwear. He recognized a unique opportunity to transform the Sorel brand, from primarily a men’s winter work boot to a fashion-forward, all-season women’s ...
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Uwe Decker joins Solidus as CEO
The German shoe retailer Solidus announced a change at its helm. The Tuttlingen-based company has appointed an industry veteran, Uwe Decker, as CEO, succeeding Yvonne Breinlinger-Scheuring effective from Aug. 1, according to a statement. Over the course of his long career, Decker has held various management positions at well-known ...
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Gabor’s CEO Achim Gabor resigns
Achim Gabor, the CEO of the German shoe manufacturer Gabor Shoes AG, announced that he will be leaving the company by mid July 2023 for health reasons. Business operations will continue without restrictions, the Rosenheim-based company said in a statement. “All our customers, suppliers and partners can rely ...
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Nike appoints new Converse CEO
Nike has announced a new president and CEO for Converse. Jared Carver succeeded Scott Uzzell on June 1. Carver reports to John Donahoe, president and CEO of Nike, Inc. Uzzell has transitioned to a new role as vice president and general manager, North America for Nike. Carver brings to the ...
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ArticleWolverine Worldwide appoints new company president and key brand leaders
Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (WWW), owner of lifestyle and footwear brands including Merrell, Saucony, Sperry, Sweaty Betty, Hush Puppies, Wolverine, Chaco and Stride Rite, this week made several executive appointments. The changes were made “to help drive future growth and accelerate its global brand-building efforts” and build on the strategic ...
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Timberland has a new sales structure for northern Europe
Under the leadership of Alwin van Dijk as sales director, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Scandinavia and Benelux now form the new sales region Central/North at Timberland. This step creates new synergies and competencies within the team to meet the changing market conditions and further push the qualitative growth in the region ...
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Wolverine looking for new Saucony brand president
Anne Cavassa, who joined Saucony as the brand’s first woman president in May 2018 after more than 20 years working for the likes of Brooks Running, Timberland, Nike, and Reebok, recently left Wolverine Worldwide. Senior company executives disclosed her departure during the conference call on first-quarter earnings. In the quarter, ...
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Sergio Rossi names Paul Kotrba interim CEO
Sergio Rossi, the Italian luxury footwear brand owned by Lanvin Group, has named Paul Kotrba interim chief executive officer, replacing Riccardo Sciutto. Kotrba was chief operating officer at Wolford, which is also controlled by Lanvin Group. Sciutto joined Sergio Rossi in April 2016 from Hogan, the luxury sneaker brand owned ...
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Allbirds’ co-CEO Tim Brown demoted to chief innovation officer
According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Allbirds indicated that its co-founder Tim Brown was stripped of his role of co-CEO and transitioned on May 4 to the non-executive position of chief innovation officer. With the decision, Joey Zwillinger, who was already co-CEO, becomes the sole ...
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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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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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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 ...
