All Executive changes articles – Page 9
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BTE elects Mark Rauschen as its president
Germany’s textile, shoes and leather goods trade association BTE has a new president. Mark Rauschen, 49, managing partner of the Osnabrück-based fashion house L&T Lengermann & Trieschmann, was unanimously elected by BTE’s delegate assembly, the trade association announced. The outgoing president, Steffen Jost of the Jost fashion house, ...
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ArticleDeichmann names a new head of brand & licensing and ends the Onygo brand
The German shoe retailer Deichmann has appointed Dražen Pehar as its new head of brand & licensing, succeeding Jürgen Achenbach, who left the company in May to pursue a new role. Pehar, who has been working for the company since September, will be responsible for marketing activities for the ...
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Vagabond expands in Asia with a Tmall concept store
The Swedish footwear brand Vagabond Shoemakers further expands in the Asian market with its own concept store on the Chinese e-commerce platform Tmall, part of the Alibaba Group and one of the world’s biggest marketplaces. The store launches with the brand’s autumn/winter 2023 collection. “We are excited to start ...
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Coats appoints a new board member
Coats Group, the British manufacturer of industrial thread and footwear components, said that Sarah Highfield will join its board as a non-executive director, effective Nov. 1. In addition, she will join the audit and risk committee, as chair designate, and the nomination committee. Highfield will succeed Nicholas Bull as chair ...
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Ecco USA names a new president
Ecco USA has appointed Deniz Erda as interim president replacing Tom Berry. Erda was previously senior vice president and general manager for Ecco Middle East and Africa. Berry had joined the company in January 2022 as president and CEO. “The U.S. remains a key market for Ecco. This change demonstrates ...
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Zalando creates VP of creative direction role
Zalando has appointed Morten Grubak as vice president of creative direction, effective Oct. 1. Grubak will be responsible for the creative direction of the Zalando brand in the newly created role. Grubak, who joins from the Vice Media Group where he led the group’s Global Innovation Lab (part of the ...
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Shoe Carnival appoints a new CFO
On Sept. 25, Shoe Carnival announced that Patrick Edwards was named senior vice president, chief financial officer, secretary and treasurer, effective immediately. Edwards served as the company’s chief accounting officer and secretary since 2021 and served as vice president and controller since he joined Shoe Carnival in 2019. ”Mr. Edwards ...
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Asos appoints William Barker to its board
Asos has appointed William Barker as a non-executive director. Barker is the founder and CEO of Camelot Capital Partners, a California-based investment management company. Camelot Partners holds 16,722,381 ordinary shares in Asos, representing 14.02 percent of the issued share capital of the British online fashion retailer. “Asos has a long-standing ...
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Rocky Brands’ CFO leaves after a six months in the job
On Sept. 12, Rocky Brands said that its senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, Sarah O’Connor, has resigned from her position, effective immediately. O’Connor had joined the company in mid-March to replace Tom Robertson, who had been promoted to the newly created role of chief operating officer. The ...
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Caleres appoints its first chief design & product officer
Caleres has promoted, with immediate effect, Natelle Baddeley to the newly created post of chief design & product officer. In her new role, Baddeley has creative oversight for the majority of the Caleres brand portfolio, including Naturalizer, Vionic, Dr. Scholl’s, Veronica Beard, Vince, Franco Sarto, Blowfish Malibu and LifeStride. She ...
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The Aura blockchain appoints a new CEO
The Aura Blockchain Consortium has appointed Romain Carrere as chief executive officer and general secretary. He replaces the general secretary Daniela Ott. Ott was appointed general secretary in June 2021, a few weeks after the launch of the project. The consortium is a non-profit association based in Switzerland promoting socially ...
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Zalando's co-CEOs confirmed until end 2023
Zalando’s founders Robert Gentz and David Schneider will continue to lead the company as co-CEOs. The supervisory board made the decision at its regular third-quarter meeting and extended both contracts by another four years until December 2027. Gentz and Schneider will drive the strategy to establish Zalando as the first ...
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Designer Brands president William Jordan to leave
Designer Brands announced that William (Bill) Jordan, the president of the company and president of Camuto LLC, will step down from his positions on a date that is expected to be on or before Dec. 1, 2023. The announcement was made in 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...
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Crocs hires a new head of investor relations
Crocs has hired Erinn Murphy as senior vice president, investor relations and corporate strategy. She will join the company’s leadership team on Sept. 5, reporting directly to the group’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, Anne Mehlman. Murphy joins the company from the investment bank Piper Sandler. She built ...
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OrthoLite strengthens its sales team in China
OrthoLite, a U.S.manufacturer and provider of insoles and material solutions for footwear, is bolstering its Chinese sales management team with the hiring of Chuck Yu as director of sales strategy and John Liu as sales manager. Yu and Liu will be responsible for supporting OrthoLite China’s domestic brand partners as ...
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Görtz’s CEO has left
Görtz’s CEO Frank Revermann has left the company after almost eight years at the helm. Revermann, who joined the Hamburg shoe retailer in November 2015 after working for the textile retailer Bonita, stepped down at the end of July “at his own request”, according to reports. Tobias Volgmann ...
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Impo International names a new chief revenue officer
The Californian footwear company Impo International has appointed Bruce Kaplan as its new chief revenue officer. Kaplan has over 45 years of experience in retail and wholesale. Most recently, he was executive vice president of Ara North America.
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VF appoints a new chief people officer
VF Corp. has named Brent Hyder chief people officer (CPO), effective Sept. 5. Hyder will report to president and CEO Bracken Darrell and will be a member of the company’s leadership team. He succeeds Anita Graham, who departed to join Labcorp earlier this year. Hyder joins VF after spending nearly ...
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OrthoLite Cirql has a new general manager
Performance footwear insoles OrthoLite has announced that Matt Thwaites is the new vice president and general manager of OrthoLite Cirql, the footwear solution that enables circularity for brands and factories. Thwaites brings more than two decades of experience in sales and operations in the textile industry to his new role. ...
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Oofos president Steve Gallo leaves
The recovery footwear brand Oofos said that its president, Steve Gallo, has left the company he had joined in 2018. “While we are very sorry to see Steve Gallo leave Oofos, we are extremely grateful for his contributions and the immense impact he has had in building this brand and ...
