Time for Unilever to ‘Raise Its Game’ Says Recent

25 Jul

LONDON — Hein Schumacher, Unilever’s recent chief executive officer, wants the patron giant to seize market share with breakthrough technologies, “superior” products and a laser give attention to the patron, he said in the course of the group’s first-half results presentation Tuesday. Schumacher, a Dutch national and former CEO of Royal FrieslandCampina, a world dairy and nutrition business, left few unsure about his ambitions for the parent of brands equivalent to Dove, Vaseline, Hellmann’s and Ben & Jerry’s. Since he stepped into the role three weeks ago, Schumacher has been traveling the world, meeting stakeholders, and hammering out his strategy for the patron giant, which revealed a healthy 2.7 percent uptick in first-half turnover to 30.4 billion euros. Underlying sales were up 9.1 percent...

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26 May

Zadig & Voltaire’s Latest North American CEO Kristen Sosa

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Fashion, Featured

Since assuming the reins as North American chief executive officer of Zadig & Voltaire, Kristen Sosa’s top priorities are to expand the brand’s retail footprint, increase its accessories business, and lift overall awareness of the Paris-based brand. A 28-year industry veteran, Sosa spent 23 years at Saks Fifth Avenue, rising to executive vice chairman and chief merchant for Gilt Groupe and Saks Off Fifth and was senior vice chairman, merchandising and digital for the full-line side. She later joined Olivela as chief merchant and senior adviser and became president, Americas at Marc Jacobs. After doing a little consulting, Sosa realized that she enjoyed all points of being at a brand. “I missed running a business and...

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15 May

Christofle x Karl Lagerfeld Rare Flatware Set Being Auctioned

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Fashion, Featured

Need a piece of Karl Lagerfeld for the dinner table? How about 24 pieces? Lagerfeld was a longtime collector of Christofle, the silver specialists, as evidenced by quite a few pieces featured in his estate sales at Sotheby’s in 2021. In 2018, shortly before his death, the designer had collaborated with Christofle on the brand’s signature Mood silverware set, imbuing the distinctive egg-shaped case and flatware with a graphic, Art Deco-inspired pattern rendered in mirror-polished silver and glossy black lacquer. Just one,500 pieces were created — 1,000 with a stainless-steel case and just 500 in black lacquer — and all sold out upon their release. Timed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s retrospective of Lagerfeld’s life and work, Christofle has pulled out...

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8 May

Womaness Taps Consumers For Latest Fund Raise – WWD

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Beauty, Featured

Slug: Newsfeed Womaness is occupied with funding in another way. The menopause solutions brand is doubling down on community and word-of-mouth marketing with its latest raise. Founders Sally Mueller and Michelle Jacobs set out to begin the brand’s third fundraise, but knowing the investor market was tougher than ever — not to say women-founded and women-centric brands are sometimes underfunded — they selected to work with three Los Angeles-based investors — Carol Cheng, Annie Bellanger and Ellen Chen — to form a special purpose vehicle (SPV). This format brought women of all ages and all investor experience to the brand’s cap table with checks starting from $5,000 to $50,000, raising nearly $1 million total — though the brand remains to...

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