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Harrys of London has joined forces with a Japanese importer...
Harrys of London has joined forces with a Japanese importer of apparel and fashion items, AOI Company Limited, to expand its footwear brand in Japan. Harrys has opened a shop-in-shop inside the Hankyu men's flagship store in the Ginza district of Tokyo and another one in Hankyu's Osaka store. Harrys ...
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Rocket Dog has hired a former executive of Timberland and...
Rocket Dog has hired a former executive of Timberland and Wolverine World Wide, Derek Bowen, to act as managing director for Europe, starting on Nov. 28. He replaces Tony Greenfield, a former importer of the brand who became its European managing director after selling his operation to Rocket Dog a ...
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Harrys of London has promoted Claire Marino to U.S. president....
Harrys of London has promoted Claire Marino to U.S. president. Marino, who is based in New York, previously held executive sales, marketing and merchandising positions with Lambertson Truex, Anne Klein, Prada USA and Barneys New York.
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Bernd Hummel, the German-based licensee for the KangaROOS brand, has...
Bernd Hummel, the German-based licensee for the KangaROOS brand, has signed a new distribution contract for the Austrian market with Steger Sportagentur
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Giovanni Stella is stepping down as chief executive of Antichi...
Giovanni Stella is stepping down as chief executive of Antichi Pellettieri (AP) for personal reasons. Stella owns 240,000 shares in AP, representing about 0.5 percent of the ordinary capital of the Italian company, which controls Baldinini and other brands of leather products. His resignation comes as AP is still discussing ...
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After numerous changes in management, Sixty Group, the Italian company...
After numerous changes in management, Sixty Group, the Italian company that markets brands such as Miss Sixty, Energie and Killah, has a general manager. His name is Michel Lhoste and he reports to Sixty's chief executive, Pietro Bongiovanni. Lhoste was previously the general manager of Clothing Company, the Italian firm ...
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Rainer Kundörfer, a 49-year-old top executive of Leder & Schuh...
Rainer Kundörfer, a 49-year-old top executive of Leder & Schuh who recently left the Austrian-based retail chain after more than 15 years of service, has set up his own consultancy, providing advice in the areas of international expansion and retail development
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Anders Börve, 38, has been named chief executive for Selected...
Anders Börve, 38, has been named chief executive for Selected Brands Nordic AB, a distribution company for fashion and shoe products in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries. It works for brands such as Hush Puppies, Caterpillar, Teva, Peak Performance, Lacoste and others. Anders spent 10 years working for Diesel and ...
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Michael McBreen has left his position as president of the...
Michael McBreen has left his position as president of the global operations group at Wolverine World Wide to join Collective Brands. He will take on the position of divisional senior vice president of product development for PaylessShoeSource. He had been with Wolverine since 2008; before that he was at Furniture ...
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Klaus Kennel is retiring at the end of this year...
Klaus Kennel is retiring at the end of this year from Kennel & Schmenger Schuhfabrik (K&S), the German company in which he is a managing partner. The transition has been prepared for a long time. Most recently, last month, Stefan Frank, who has been responsible for sales and marketing since ...
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Epic Footwear, a division of Fresh Footwear, is going to...
Epic Footwear, a division of Fresh Footwear, is going to introduce Xti of Spain into the British market for spring/summer 2012
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Mahendra Gupta, dean of Olin Business School at Washington University...
Mahendra Gupta, dean of Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected as a member of the board at Brown Shoe Company to provide advice on managerial accounting, strategic cost management, information technology and marketing management and strategy
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Pollini has confirmed the British designer Nicholas Kirkwood as its...
Pollini has confirmed the British designer Nicholas Kirkwood as its creative director until 2015. He started working for Pollini with the 2011 spring/summer collection.
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Olga Berluti will take over the role of creative director...
Olga Berluti will take over the role of creative director of the Berluti Art line, owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. She is known as a pre-eminent bootmaker, one of the rare women in the field, and takes the job from her former position as artistic director for the ...
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Fabrizio Salvatori, a former Geox manager who became production...
Fabrizio Salvatori, a former Geox manager who became production and sourcing director for the shoe division of Sixty Group, is the latest of a string of executives who has left the Italian company
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Steve Madden has hired the twin sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate...
Steve Madden has hired the twin sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen as creative directors for Superga. Madden has the license for North America for the sneaker brand, owned by BasicNet. The partnership will start with a co-branding initiative for the spring/summer 2012 collection between Superga and The Row, a brand ...
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Vito Artioli, chairman of the European shoe industry federation, CEC,...
Vito Artioli, chairman of the European shoe industry federation, CEC, is recruiting a new general manager for the Brussels-based organization as Eline Van Audenaerd quit her job after only a few months in office. She was supposed to take the place of Roeland Smets, who is retiring at the end ...
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Michael Brumme has been appointed publisher of Verlag Otto Sternefeld,...
Michael Brumme has been appointed publisher of Verlag Otto Sternefeld, which puts out Schuhkurier and other footwear magazines in German. He takes the position of his father, Horst Sternefeld, who died at the beginning of this year at the age of 86. Brumme has been the general manager of the ...
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Andrea Beltrami has been appointed commercial director of Voile Blanche,...
Andrea Beltrami has been appointed commercial director of Voile Blanche, one of the adult shoe brands of Falc, which also owns the Naturino and Falcotto brands of children's footwear
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Jacques Royer, president of Groupe Royer, and his brother Alain,...
Jacques Royer, president of Groupe Royer, and his brother Alain, vice president, are getting extra help in running his fast-growing conglomerate. Nathalie Montaldier Henock, a seasoned 50-year-old executive, has been appointed to the new position of deputy general manager to handle mainly the operational side. She worked at Leo Burnett, ...
