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Famous Footwear Parent Caleres Outlines Executive Changes

Retail TouchPoints

Caleres has revealed its executive succession plan after CEO Diane Sullivan announced her retirement, effective Jan. Caleres is the parent company of footwear brands such as Famous Footwear , Blowfish Malibu , Dr. Scholl’s Shoes , Naturalizer and Sam Edelman. 15, 2023, with Jay Schmidt taking the reins as the top executive.

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Renfroe to succeed Irby as Publix’ marketing VP

Mass Relators

. — Publix Super Markets’ vice president of marketing Mark Irby plans to retire at the end of February. She became a field marketing coordinator in 2006, category marketing manager in 2010 and manager of marketing brand management in 2016. The 48-year company veteran will be succeeded by Malinda Renfroe.

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The rise of Sheike: From Sydney market stall to style authority

Inside Retail

Inside Retail : I understand Sheike is planning to expand to South Australia. Sandra Kennedy: We’re planning on opening the store in the middle of this year, and we’re very excited because it’s actually our first SA store in the portfolio, and it will also be our first strip store, so our first store outside of a centre.

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