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...“How you present yourself or how you allow your brand to be utilised in this environment is critical,” said Steve Rendle, chief executive of VF Corporation, which owns Vans, as well as North Face and Timberland...
...(Patrick Temple-West) Grit In the Oyster Ken Pucker, former chief operating officer at Timberland, joined the likes of Tariq Fancy and Desiree Fixler in throwing cold water on ESG claims....
...“It turns out that reporting is not a proxy for progress,” Kenneth Pucker, the former chief operating officer of shoe company Timberland, wrote in the Harvard Business Review....
...Other prominent programmes signed by Under Armour include Auburn University, the University of Notre Dame, and Yale University....
...Having also worked at other well-known retail brands including luxury department store Nordstrom, outdoor-wear maker Timberland and Nike, Mr Tritton arrives at BB&B with one of “the most impressive resumes...
...Chinese shoppers may be intimately familiar with names such as Timberland, Muji and Armani, but they know nothing about the original design manufacturers that make their goods, said Liu Xiaogang, chief executive...
...Natty treads Launched this week, Supreme’s overhaul of Timberland’s World Hiker is another scorching collaboration, certain to sell out swiftly....
...Tim Cook, Apple chief, hit out at the tech industry’s gender disparity problem in an interview this week with The Auburn Plainsman, his former college’s student newspaper....
...He previously held roles at Timberland and Chanel, having cut his teeth at Procter & Gamble....
...Weyerhaeuser has agreed to acquire Plum Creek Timber for about $8.4bn, in a real estate deal that will create the largest private owner of timberland in the US....
...Now the hipster organic consumer is likely to have a beard and to stride around in groovy Timberland or Reef sandals, with an organic chia seed wrap feeding his inner microbiome. Plus ça change....
...Calpers’s holdings are currently worth more than all of the timberland transactions that occurred in 2014, according to the Journal.)...
...The strike at a factory employing about 5,000 people that is owned by Stella International Holdings, which supplies Nike, Timberland and other international brands, erupted on Sunday after local government...
...Ms Auer, who joins from Timberland Investment Resources Europe, a forestry investment group, has previously worked for Galena Asset Management, part of Trafigura, the commodities trading group....
...VF Corp, the owner of The North Face and Timberland brands, was under pressure following weaker than expected earnings guidance....
...slide Tuesday was an “historic moment” in the history of the car industry, Sergio Marchionne, chief executive of the new Italian-American Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) said, writes Robert Wright in Auburn...
...VF Corp, the owner of brands including North Face and Timberland, said it expected a strong finish to the year and was scouting for new acquisitions despite difficult economic conditions....
...“We acquired these timberlands and manufacturing assets as one business in 2007 and restructured the business, separating the manufacturing business from the timberlands and engaging in an operational turnaround...
...Net income, excluding items related to its 2011 acquisition of Timberland, rose 32 per cent to $344m....
...These gains also helped offset a 7 per cent decline in revenue from its Heritage brands, largely because of the group’s exit from Izod women’s and Timberland wholesale sportswear businesses, the group said...
...Its earnings have also been boosted by last year’s $2.3bn acquisition of footwear company Timberland....
...Its A$1.10-a-share bid was matched in January by Altamont Capital Partners and VF Corp, the owner of the North Face and Timberland brands....
...Pictures of civil rights campaigners Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy hang, alongside Auburn University memorabilia, in his Cupertino office....
...In an offer to accelerate growth in the action sports market, VF paid US$2bn net of cash for Timberland, the boot maker, in 2011....
...But he said a deal the size of Timberland, the boot maker that was the largest acquisition in VF’s history, was unlikely in the next 12 months because there were few opportunities that big....
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