Movers and shakers–August


Movers and shakers–August

Upscale department store retailer Harvey Nichols has appointed
Sandrine Deveaux, formerly director of marketing
and eCommerce at luxury online apparel store Matches, as head of
eCommerce.

Tobar has hired David Mordecai, founder at
Modelzone, as interim chief executive officer following the
departure of Simon Palmer, who left the business
on 25th May.

Majestic Wines has promoted Ben Nicholl, who’s
been with the company since 1994, to commercial sales director.
He heads up Majestic Commercial, a division that specialises in
the supply of wine to corporate customers.

Tesco has announced that clothing boss Jill
Easterbrook has been promoted to a newly created role,
covering a number of divisions, including Tesco Nutricentre,
Tesco Ireland, Tesco Mobile and convenience chain Onestop. Jason
Tarry will now lead clothing across the UK and Ireland in
addition to his existing responsibilities for central Europe and
the F&F brand internationally.

Online marketplace eBay has appointed Sainsbury’s director of
digital and cross-channel Tanya Lawler to the
newly created role of vice president of UK trading. She joins in
the autumn with the brief to develop eBay’s customer strategy and
drive growth in eBay’s retail brand business and business seller
partnerships.

Charlotte Gilmore has joined The Conran Shop as head of
eCommerce. She was previously eCommerce manager at Kurt Geiger
and before that worked for English Heritage as online sales and
mail order manager.

Luxury department store Fortnum & Mason hired Tim
Fisher, formerly of Marks & Spencer, as retail director.
It also named Selfridges’ Ewan Venters as its
new chief executive, replacing Beverley Aspinall who left in
May.

N Brown Group, the owner of Figleaves and Simply Be, has revealed
Lord Alliance of Manchester will stand down as
chairman of the group after 40 years in the role. He will be
replaced by Andrew Higginson, formerly executive
director of Tesco. Alan White, who has been
chief executive of N Brown since 2002, will retire from the
company next year.

Sam Jenkinson has moved from direct marketing
manager at apparel retailer Next to marketing manager at Victoria
Plumb.

Supplier people
Sanderson has appointed Bryan Brunt as
operations director for its multichannel retail business. He will
head up the operational team, with responsibility for
development, customer support and implementation.

Stickyeyes, the digital marketing agency, has restructured its
executive team: Craig Chalmers, owner and
managing director, moves to chief executive officer, while
commercial director Phil Kissane is promoted to
managing director. Stickyeyes also welcomed chief commercial
officer Glen Conybeare, who will oversee
business development and new product development, among other
responsibilities.

Orbital Response, part of the Orbital Marketing Services group
that includes Orbital Mailing and BP Travel Marketing services,
has appointed Nick Turnbull as business
development manager. He joins from outsourcing company
Prolog.

Share

Twitter Facebook LinkedIn WhatsApp

Related News


Dr. Martens names new CEO

Sign up to receive our newsletter