Executive changes at Penney, Eddie Bauer Jul 11, 2002 12:00 PM
JobZone
Search and post jobs for the Multichannel Merchant. Including jobs for brand & agency marketers, e-commerce, catalog marketers, ops & fulfillment, direct marketing and more.
Cataloger/retailer J.C. Penney Co. has created a new
position, president/chief operating officer of stores and merchandise
operations, and has hired Ken Hicks to fill it. Most recently president
of Payless Shoe Source, Hicks will be response for store environment,
planning and allocation, supply chain management, and coordination for
the catalogs and the Website as well as for the general merchandiser's
department stores.
Hicks will report to Vanessa Castagna, who was promoted to executive
vice president/chairman/CEO of J.C. Penney stores, catalog, and
Internet. She will continue to report to Penney chairman/CEO Allen
Questrom.
Over at cataloger/retailer Eddie Bauer, Fabian Mansson has
been named president/CEO. He will report to Martin Zaepfel, vice
chairman/president/CEO of Eddie Bauer parent company The Spiegel
Group.
Mansson was most recently executive vice president of Spray
Ventures, a Swedish venture capital company. Previously he was CEO of
Sweden-based retail chain Hennes & Mauritz (H&M).
