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Sanuk, one of the brands of Deckers Outdoor Corportation, has...
Sanuk, one of the brands of Deckers Outdoor Corportation, has hired Jeff Booth, most recently with Billabong, as core national sales mager for the U.S., and Tommy Campagne, formerly with Young & Rubicam and Verizon Wireless, as core marketing manager
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Oliver Greiser assumed the newly-created position of brand manager at...
Oliver Greiser assumed the newly-created position of brand manager at Highline United Europe on June 1. He is responsible for all of Highline's brands. Previously, Greiser worked for Geox and Paul Green as product manager. Marcus Meyer, chief executive officer of Highline United Europe, also worked for Geox between 2002 ...
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Ecco has announced the departure of Michael Hauge Sørensen, the...
Ecco has announced the departure of Michael Hauge Sørensen, the company's chief operating officer, who has decided to return to Asia, which he calls his “second home.” From 2002 to 2009, Sørensen was instrumental in building Ecco's presence across the Asia-Pacific region almost from scratch, with a base in Hong ...
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Bally has announced the departure of Victoria Hennessy, the brand's...
Bally has announced the departure of Victoria Hennessy, the brand's director of global marketing and communications. According to the Swiss firm, Hennessy has decided to leave to pursue new professional opportunities, after Bally's co-creative directors, Graeme Fidler and Michael Herz, also decided to leave early this month. Bally started an ...
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Hunter Boot has announced a series of key appointments to...
Hunter Boot has announced a series of key appointments to its senior team. Niall Sloan, former senior women's wear designer for Burberry Prorsum, is the new global design director. Sloan's first new collection for Hunter Boot will be showcased for autumn/winter 2014. The British label has also appointed Ali Lowry ...
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Johannes Füchter, 52, has been named buying director of Leiser,...
Johannes Füchter, 52, has been named buying director of Leiser, the shoe retail division of Josef Seibel, including its Schuhhof chain. He has been most recently product manager of Belmondo, a brand of women's shoes owned by Görtz. He previously took care of purchasing for women's shoes at Salamander. At ...
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Ronald van der Vis, 45, will join the supervisory board...
Ronald van der Vis, 45, will join the supervisory board of Macintosh Retail Group, expanding it from four to five members. The Dutch manager has acted as executive director at important companies such as Pearle Europe, a major European conglomerate for optical retailing, and Esprit. He already serves as a ...
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Manfred Kindler is leaving as buying director of Leiser, the...
Manfred Kindler is leaving as buying director of Leiser, the German shoe retail chain taken over by Josef Seibel. The group is reorganizing operations at Leiser and its sister chain, Schuhhof.
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Paul Janssen, the former general manager of Hugo Boss's shoe...
Paul Janssen, the former general manager of Hugo Boss's shoe division who has been responsible lately on Sioux executive board for the development of the German company's collections, will be leaving the company after the expiration of his three-year contract at the end of June. Another former member of the executive ...
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Shoe Carnival has appointed a new vice president of e-commerce,...
Shoe Carnival has appointed a new vice president of e-commerce, Kent Zimmermann, who was previously doing a similar job at an American chain of sporting goods stores, The Finish Line
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In another important change of management since the arrival of...
In another important change of management since the arrival of Marc Lelandais at its helm last year, Vivarte has created a new position by appointing another new executive, Monique Fischer, to lead the group's international development. She is also joining the group's executive board. Fischer, 49, studied fashion in Munich, ...
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Brown Shoe Company has announced the appointment of Diane Sullivan as...
Brown Shoe Company has announced the appointment of Diane Sullivan as chairman of the board, effective Feb. 2, 2014. She will add the new duties to her existing roles as president and chief executive, when Ron Fromm steps down from his role as chairman. He will remain a member of the company's ...
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Andreas Zimmermann will assume the position of sales manager for...
Andreas Zimmermann will assume the position of sales manager for the German market at Ecco from Sept. 1. In this position, he succeeds Frank Schmitz, who left the company at the end of March. Zimmermann is currently working as sales manager for Southern Germany at Puma. Previously, he held executive ...
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Nina Footwear has appointed Alan Johnson as president of the...
Nina Footwear has appointed Alan Johnson as president of the company, a new position for the New York-based design house and producer, which sells footwear under the Nina and Delman brands. The former president of Delman, Lance DeShazo, and the former brand manager of Nina, Michael Shirey, have both left the company. In ...
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Mike Abbott will be the new president of Keen Footwear...
Mike Abbott will be the new president of Keen Footwear from July 8, 2013. He has nearly two decades of experience in global operations, most recently as chief operating officer of Specialized Bicycles, where he first joined as general manager in 2009. Before entering the bike industry, he acted as ...
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François Feijoo, 53, has left the Vivarte group to run...
François Feijoo, 53, has left the Vivarte group to run the Eram and Texto chains of shoe shops, starting on July 1. With 400 and 200 stores, respectively, and combined annual sales of around €300 million, they are among the main assets of the French Eram group, which had a ...
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On June 1, Thomas Kamm assumed the position of country...
On June 1, Thomas Kamm assumed the position of country manager for Austria and Germany at Merrell and Chaco, two of the brands of Wolverine Worldwide. He replaces Michael Dörner, who managed the sales of Merrell in central Europe for seven years. Dörner has left the group to become area ...
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Kelly Wallrich, former vice president of product at Keen Footwear,...
Kelly Wallrich, former vice president of product at Keen Footwear, is now doing the same job at Bogs Footwear
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Drapers says that Malcolm Collins has left as buying director...
Drapers says that Malcolm Collins has left as buying director for footwear and accessories at New Look after 16 years with the British fast fashion chain
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The Dune Group continues its international expansion. The British shoe...
The Dune Group continues its international expansion. The British shoe retailer has hired Richard Kelsey to take care of its new operations in the U.S., where it wants to find wholesale customers for its collections and open an online store and a flagship store in the second half of this ...
