All Executive changes articles – Page 14
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Bollé Brands hires digital director
Bollé Brands continues to boost its management. The holding company for Bollé, Bollé Safety, Serengeti, Cébé, H2Optix and Spy Optics eyewear has appointed Damien Hars as digital director, responsible for the development of their B2B and B2C online sales platforms worldwide. Hars previously worked for the Rossignol Group, responsible for ...
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Kits Eyecare appoints chief marketing officer
Kits Eyecare, a Canadian online retailer of eyeglasses and contact lenses, has appointed Rob Long to the role of chief marketing officer. Long joins Kits from the Canadian unit of Dyson, the British manufacturer of vacuum clears and other electric household appliances. Prior to Dyson, Long was part of the ...
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Hoya appoints new president
Eduardo Martins has succeeded Derek Dodge as Hoya Vision Care’s president for the U.S. market. Martins spent 2019 as senior vice president and general manager of PlayPower, a producer of playground equipment, and the previous 10 years in vice presidencies at Essilor in the U.S. He held similar executive sales ...
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Maui Jim makes management changes
Maui Jim, the big American sunglass specialist, began selling optical eyewear in 2018 and has reportedly enjoyed significant sales growth in the segment. It plans this year to expand its optical collection by 30 items and to enter three new markets – Italy, Greece and Belgium. To raise awareness of ...
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Charmant appoints president and CEO
The Charmant group has announced the appointment of Masakiyo Honjo as its new president and chief executive. On April 1, he will take over from Masao Miyachi, who will retire after 40 years at the company, the last 10 at its helm. A native of Fukui, the Japanese region famous ...
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ArticleBig management changes at Essilux
EssilorLuxottica announced on March 30 the retirement of Laurent Vacherot as chief executive of Essilor, saying that he has decided not to lead a new phase in the integration with Luxottica, which it wants to speed up. Paul de Saillant, 61, is taking over the role from the 64-year-old Vacherot ...
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+++ Charlie Ninegar, a former vice president of Spy Optic, has been appointed to a similar role at Nixon, a maker of sports watches in the same region +++ In a reorganization of functions, the Michael Pachleitner Group has assigned the management of its La Roche brand to Kamilia Kusz, ...
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Marcolin's CEO steps down
Marcolin’s chief executive and general manager, Massimo Renon, is leaving the group to become the CEO of a big Italian apparel company in the same region, the Benetton Group. Renon, who became CEO of Marcolin in 2017, will continue holding the job until April 14. He had previously been the ...
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Transitions appoints general manager
Vadim Gorovoy has been appointed by Transitions as general manager of sales for the EMEA region, coinciding with the brand’s launch in Europe of its eighth generation of photochromic lenses. He has spent 20 years in branding, marketing and retail. He spent the last 12 years with Lego, holding commercial ...
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Edel Optics appoints general manager
Edel Optics, which claims to be one of the three largest online retailers for eye glasses in Europe and the second-largest in Germany, appointed Marijo Sarac as joint general manager on March 1. He will be supporting Dennis Martens, founder and chief executive officer. Sarac has served on the management ...
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New CEO at Pro Optik
Pro Optik, a chain of 145 mostly franchised stores in Germany, appointed Micha S. Siebenhandl as its new chief executive on March 16. He is reporting directly to Paragon Partners, an investment company in Munich that acquired the majority of the chain’s shares together with Hannibal Zemariam, Pro Optik’s former ...
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Jôrg Spangemacher, the well-known and highly respected publisher of the...
Jôrg Spangemacher, the well-known and highly respected publisher of the Focus, Mafo and Globalcontact magazines in Germany, is retiring at the age of 74, but his publishing company will continue to operate like before, with Petros Sioutis acting as managing director and Silke Sage as editor in chief. Jörg, whom ...
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Patrik Södestrom, who was general manager of Luxottica for northern...
Patrik Södestrom, who was general manager of Luxottica for northern Europe from 2008 to 2016, has been promoted to chief executive of Gant, replacing Brian Grevy, who has been appointed to the executive board of Adidas and placed in charge of global brands
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Mister Spex, which claims to be Europe's leading online optician,...
Mister Spex, which claims to be Europe's leading online optician, has appointed Maren Kroll as its new chief of human resources for the entire company. In addition to supporting the online optician's expansion in Germany and abroad, she will be a member of the executive board and report directly to ...
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Bollé Brands has promoted Luca Zangrandi as sales director for...
Bollé Brands has promoted Luca Zangrandi as sales director for Europe, handling the optical and sports retail channels for the company's brands – Bollé, Serengeti and Cébé – in the markets of Italy, France, Spain, the U.K., Germany and Austria. The company says his promotion follows excellent results reached by ...
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Cazal Eyewear has appointed Katharina Schlager as chief executive and...
Cazal Eyewear has appointed Katharina Schlager as chief executive and creative director, effective in January. The designer replaces Beate Obersteiner, who is retiring, as the head of the German company. Obersteiner will continue to support the company as a consultant. Klaus Lippert, who has been general manager since 2015, will ...
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Lena Henry has been appointed chief executive of Essilor France,...
Lena Henry has been appointed chief executive of Essilor France, from Dec. 1. She replaces Alexandre Montague, who decided to pursue opportunities outside the group. Henry has been with the Essilor group for nearly seven years. According to her LinkedIn account, she was previously regional vice president of Essilor, based ...
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Christoph Bojinski has been appointed as the new sales director...
Christoph Bojinski has been appointed as the new sales director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland for Luneau Technology, the company behind the Visionix and Weco brands of diagnostic equipment and eye screening. The 53-year-old will be responsible for the company's sales strategy in the German-speaking markets. He worked previously as ...
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Cazal has appointed Katharina Schlager to serve as its chief...
Cazal has appointed Katharina Schlager to serve as its chief executive and creative director from January 2020. Beate Obersteiner, the company's previous managing director, will be retiring at the end of 2019 but continue to advise the company. Klaus Lippert, general director since 2015, will remain in charge of finances ...
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Johnson & Johnson Vision appointed Katja Schmelzing as general manager...
Johnson & Johnson Vision appointed Katja Schmelzing as general manager for Germany and Austria on Nov. 1. She will be responsible for the development of the brand in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Schmelzing was previously marketing director at Colgate Palmolive's Hill's Pet Nutrition brand of animal feed. She has also ...
