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Wolfgang Schnellbügel has been appointed as French country manager of...
Wolfgang Schnellbügel has been appointed as French country manager of Rohde, replacing Serge Lemelle. Schnellbügel, a German executive who is married to a Frenchwoman, spent the last 14 years in the sporting goods industry, first as managing director of Sport 2000 Germany and then since 2006 as head of Sport ...
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Start-rite has announced that Stephen Riley has joined the company's...
Start-rite has announced that Stephen Riley has joined the company's board as non-executive chairman. The move follows the announcement in October that Peter Lamble, Start-rite's chairman and chief executive, is to step down from the business after 25 years. Riley brings international consumer and brand experience. He has worked with ...
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The Bestseller Group, owner of Jack & Jones, Vero Moda...
The Bestseller Group, owner of Jack & Jones, Vero Moda and other brands, has appointed Alexander Korosec as country manager for Austria and Eastern Europe
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Richard (Rick) Mina has become president of WSS, an American...
Richard (Rick) Mina has become president of WSS, an American shoe retailer with 68 stores, catering to Latin American and other urban communities, which has started to expand from its base in Southern California. Mina, who replaces Mark Archer, has a long history in the specialty retail sector. Among other ...
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Lime Green Agencies, which has been representing Gola Sport in...
Lime Green Agencies, which has been representing Gola Sport in Ireland, will also be the agent for Gola Classics in the country
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After parting ways with Aokang, Belle International and other local...
After parting ways with Aokang, Belle International and other local distributors, Geox has signed a deal with Pou Sheng International, the retail arm of Pou Chen and its subsidiary Yue Yuen, for the exclusive distribution of its adult collections in China. The contract calls for the opening of 350 mono-brand ...
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A new top manager, Michael Dornseifer, has joined Rohde in...
A new top manager, Michael Dornseifer, has joined Rohde in the position of international sales director. The 48-year-old, who worked already for the German company from 1997 to 2007, will work closely with the two members of its executive board, Harald Neisser and Patrick Ruiz Martin.
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Görtz has a new managing director, Frank Revermann, who will...
Görtz has a new managing director, Frank Revermann, who will replace Thorsten Hermelink. The 46-year-old will be responsible at the German shoe retail group for sales, marketing, e-commerce and expansion, joining two other members of the executive board, Christian Moritz and Stephan Tendam. Revermann has spent 13 years at Bonita, ...
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Elizabeth Murdoch, daughter of the media magnate Rupert Murdoch, has...
Elizabeth Murdoch, daughter of the media magnate Rupert Murdoch, has joined the board of Jimmy Choo as a non-executive director
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Leomil says it is expanding its cooperation with the Walt...
Leomil says it is expanding its cooperation with the Walt Disney Company to Latin America. It has already started to market Frozen and Minnie shoes in Colombia and Surinam, where it will also work with an upcoming Disney film, The Good Dinosaur. Its partnership for Spider-man is heading into Colombia, ...
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Sports Connection, the distributor of Skechers in the Nordic countries,...
Sports Connection, the distributor of Skechers in the Nordic countries, says that its sales grew by more than 125 percent so far this year. The biggest growth took place in Denmark, the distributor's home market, but the other three Nordic countries – Sweden, Norway and Finland – also registered an ...
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Roger L. Rawlins, executive vice president and chief innovation officer...
Roger L. Rawlins, executive vice president and chief innovation officer of DSW, will succeed the current chief executive of the American shoe retail chain, Michael R. MacDonald, on Jan. 1. Rawlings will also join DSW's board of directors. He has spent almost ten years in various functions at the company, ...
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Nicholas Kirkwood's co-founder and chief executive, Christopher Suarez, has left...
Nicholas Kirkwood's co-founder and chief executive, Christopher Suarez, has left the company to pursue other interests effective Oct. 30. After LVMH acquired a majority stake in the company in Sept. 2013, a two-year plan was put in place to prepare the company for the next stage of development. Suarez's departure ...
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Peter Lamble is set to leave as chairman and chief...
Peter Lamble is set to leave as chairman and chief executive of Start-Rite after 25 years with the British children's footwear firm, but he is prepared to stay in his post until the appointment of a successor. Start-Rite has been owned by Lamble's family for eight generations. Its holding company, ...
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Carrie Teffer will join Crocs' management as executive vice president...
Carrie Teffer will join Crocs' management as executive vice president and as its new chief financial officer on Dec. 16, while resigning from its board of directors. She previously ran financial affairs at PetSmart, Weber-Stephens and Timberland. Mike Smith has been acting as interim CFO at Crocs. In another appointment ...
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Shoe Carnival, which wants to more than double the number...
Shoe Carnival, which wants to more than double the number of its stores in the U.S., has appointed Jeff Fink as senior vice president for real estate
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Global Brands Group has hired Edmundo Castillo as executive vice...
Global Brands Group has hired Edmundo Castillo as executive vice president and creative director of Aquatalia, a brand men's and women's shoes founded and led by Marvin Krasnow. Castillo has worked for major brands such as Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Sergio Rossi. He most recently developed his eponymous brand ...
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Franco Spalla, chief executive of Basicnet, is now expected to...
Franco Spalla, chief executive of Basicnet, is now expected to continue his collaboration with the group after passing the helm to Gianni Crespi at the shareholders' meeting next April. Marco Boglione, chairman of the board and major shareholder of the Italian-based group, plans to propose the appointment of Spalla to ...
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Hunter Boots has announced that its chief executive, James Seuss,...
Hunter Boots has announced that its chief executive, James Seuss, will resign at the end of this month to pursue a new, unspecified opportunity. The fast-growing British company has formed an interim leadership committee to manage the business. Seuss worked for Cole Haan, Stella McCartney, Tiffany and Tourneau before taking ...
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Richard (Rick) Mina has become president of WSS, an American...
Richard (Rick) Mina has become president of WSS, an American shoe retailer with 68 stores, catering to Latin American and other urban communities, which has started to expand from its base in Southern California. Mina, who replaces Mark Archer, has a long history in the specialty retail sector. Among other ...
