All Executive changes articles – Page 18
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Michele Norsa to leave Ferragamo at year end
Salvatore Ferragamo’s executive vice chairman Michele Norsa will leave on Dec. 31, 2021, ahead of the arrival of the company’s new chief executive, Marco Gobbetti, who starts on Jan. 1, 2022. Norsa was the company’s CEO from 2006 to 2016. He rejoined the company in May 2020 to help ...
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Former Nike footwear product manager joins Arc’teryx
Arc’teryx has appointed Ovidio Garcia as vice president of footwear. He will be reporting directly to Katie Becker, Arc’teryx’ chief creative officer. Garcia brings 15 years of experience at Nike in product management, merchandising and product operations for footwear on a global scale, most recently as global footwear product operations ...
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Higg appoints a chief strategy officer to lead the platform’s expansion
Higg, the environmental software platform responsible for the Higg Index, has appointed James Schaffer as chief strategy officer to lead business development and partnerships. Schaffer’s experience in developing industry initiatives in the apparel sector, where Higg’s platform is widely used, is expected to be instrumental in guiding the company’s expansion ...
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Inditex reshuffles its top management
Inditex, the Spanish group that owns the brands Zara, Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho and Uterqüe, has appointed Oscar Garcia Maceiras as chief executive, effective immediately. Maceiras joined Inditex of March this year, and has served as general counsel and secretary of the board. He is replacing Carlos Crespo, ...
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Paciotti names Diego Dolcini head of women’s footwear
Diego Dolcini was appointed rebranding and design director for women’s footwear at Paciotti, an Italian producer of luxury footwear. Dolcini has nearly three decades of experience in the luxury and fashion sector. According to his LinkedIn account he is creative director and owner of his namesake brand since 1994 and ...
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Saucony hires Brian Moore as global product head
Saucony, part of the Wolverine Worldwide group, has appointed footwear industry veteran Brian Moore as senior vice president of global product, effective immediately. In his new role, Moore will be responsible for Saucony’s global brand footwear and apparel strategies, including design, development and product innovation. Moore will report directly to ...
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ArticleClarks CEO steps down after 10 months in role as strike drags on
The embattled British shoemaker Clarks said that its chief executive, Victor Herrero, has stepped down after only months in the job to take on “broader” responsibilities at its private equity parent firm. The announcement comes amid an ongoing strike by workers at the company’s Westway warehouse in Somerset over controversial ...
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ArticleWeyco sees an improvement in supply deliveries in Q4
The U.S. group Weyco enjoyed a rebound in sales and earnings in the third quarter of 2021, but bottlenecks in the supply chain caused delays in the delivery of merchandise from suppliers and hurt the sales of its outdoor brand Bogs. In October, however, the company began to see an ...
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VF appoints new investor relations head
VF Corp. has appointed Allegra Perry to the position of vice president, investor relations, effective Jan. 2022. She will report to VF’s chief financial officer, Matt Puckett, and work closely with the group’s executive leadership team and executives across the company’s 12 brands, including The North Face, Timberland, Vans and ...
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Keen reorganizes German sales team
Ralph Hermann, so far Keen’s representative in Baden-Württemberg with his agency “Die Berg Agenten”, will be Keen’s new country manager for Germany. Baden-Württemberg as well as Bavaria will be taken over from fall/winter 2022 by the agency Frotscher, which also looks after brands such as Havaianas, CMP, Inuovo and Hoff ...
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Crocs has two new SVPs
Crocs has hired Lori Foglia as senior vice president and chief product and merchandising officer. Foglia brings nearly 25 years of product, merchandising and retail experience to the company. She previously worked at Victoria’s Secret, where she spent nearly five years overseeing product merchandising for more than 1,000 stores, as ...
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Burberry appoints a new CEO
The British luxury fashion company Burberry has appointed Jonathan Akeroyd as chief executive and executive director, effective April 1, 2022. He will replace Marco Gobbetti, who is stepping down on Dec. 31 to join Salvatore Ferragamo as CEO and general manager. Burberry’s chairman Gerry Murphy will chair the company’s executive ...
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Caleres hires a new head of customer marketing
Suzy Cirulis has joined Caleres as senior vice president in charge of customer marketing. In this role, she will lead the company’s customer marketing efforts across the entire Caleres portfolio including customer relationship marketing, customer insights and customer analytics. She was most recently chief marketing officer at Crate and Barrel. ...
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ArticleFerragamo hires 2 new managers
The Italian fashion company Salvatore Ferragamo has bolstered its management structure for North America and the EMEA region, with the nomination of two new managers. Daniella Vitale will join Ferragamo on Oct. 18 in the role of CEO for North America while Vincenzo Equestre has already covered the position of ...
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Tod’s’ CEO leaves
The Italian footwear company Tod’s cuts the number of co-CEOs from three to two, resulting in the departure of Umberto Macchi di Cellere after four years in the job. The company’s board approved to maintain the position of CEO solely for the chairman, Diego Della Valle, and the vice-chairman, Andrea ...
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Vögele Shoes hires a purchasing, marketing head
The Swiss footwear retailer Karl Vögele AG (KVAG), which operates the banners Vögele Shoes, Bingo and Max Shoes, has hired Timm Jacob as head of purchasing and marketing and joins the senior management team along with the chairman Christan Müller and the CEO and chief financial officer Max Bertschinger. Jacob ...
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Holger Rosemann becomes CEO of AstorMueller
Swiss shoe manufacturer AstorMueller has announced the name of its new CEO. Starting on Sept. 1, Holger Rosemann will take the helm of the company from Peter Schüpbach, who has been serving as interim CEO since May 1. Rosemann, 52, was most recently head of operations value chain and ...
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Luis Onofre re-elected president of CEC
Luis Onofre was unanimously re-elected for a second two-year term as president of the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC). The European footwear industry consists of 21,000 companies responsible for 278,000 people. Onofre is also president of Apiccaps, the Portuguese association grouping footwear, components and leather goods manufacturers. ...
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ArticleCrocs seeks to block import of counterfeits into the U.S.
Crocs filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking an investigation of allegedly ”unlawfully imported shoes” into the U.S. in ”violation of its registered trademarks.” With the complaint, Crocs is seeking to block the importation and subsequent sale of products into the U.S. that infringe on its ...
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Former VF CFO joins Tapestry
Tapestry, the New York-based owner of Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman, has appointed Scott Roe as chief financial officer (CFO), effective June 1. Roe will have responsibility for all finance functions as well as leading the company’s strategy and consumer insights teams. He joins from VF Corp., the owner ...
