Esprit Names Chief Product & Design Officer To Help Rebuild Brand
10 Januar 2012 - 3:53AM
Dow Jones News
Esprit Holdings Ltd. (0330.HK) has named Melody Harris-Jensbach
chief product and design officer at the blue-chip fashion retailer
in a move aimed at rebuilding its international brand at a time of
intense market competition amid a weakening global economy.
Esprit said Monday that Harris-Jensbach, who is also joining the
company's board, will oversee the product creation and design of
all of Esprit's divisions and global license business.
Harris-Jensbach returns to Esprit after earlier leaving to join
Puma AG in January 2008 as deputy chief executive and chief product
officer. Her last position at Esprit was international product
director and global business manager.
The high-profile hire comes as Esprit presses on with a
strategic overhaul aimed at reviving its brand identity. It has
struggled in recent years to reinvigorate its performance through
initiatives that include brand rebuilding and cost cutting. Its
reliance on Europe for most of its revenue has been a burden
lately, with persistent economic weakness there stunting
growth.
In September last year, after reporting a 98% plunge in its
fiscal 2011 net profit, Esprit declared it had "lost its soul" and
presented plans to divest itself of its North America business and
drop retail operations in three major European countries. The
company also said it would invest more than 18 billion Hong Kong
dollars (US$2.32 billion) over the next four years to rebuild its
brand, which competes globally with the likes of Hennes &
Mauritz AB's H&M and Inditex SA's Zara.
-By Hong Kong Bureau, Dow Jones Newswires; 852-2802-7002;
djnews.hk@dowjones.com
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