VF reorganises management to support long-term growth plans
17 May '05
6 min read
A leading branded apparel retailer VF Corporation reorganises its management for supply chain.
VF Corporation's Chairman and CEO of Mackey J. McDonald, announced broad-based organizational changes, with a more streamlined leadership structure designed to support the Company's long-term growth plans.
The new organization, effective June 1, underscores VF's commitment to best-in-class global brand building, with a complete focus on achieving the highest level of innovation in our products and marketing, executed consistently across all brands. It also centralizes VF's supply chain functions, with a commitment to building the most flexible and efficient supply chain in the industry.
Accordingly, Eric Wiseman, 49, has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Global Brands. He will be responsible for driving growth across all our key brands. Reporting to Wiseman will be the presidents of VF's Jeanswear, Intimates, Outdoor and Sportswear Coalitions, as detailed below. Also reporting to Wiseman will be Mike Gannaway, Vice President Customer Management.
Under Eric's leadership, we will facilitate greater cooperation and cross-fertilization of best practices and capabilities across our brands, markets and customers to support organic growth and the addition of new brands. Since February of 2004, Wiseman has been serving as Vice President and Chairman of VF's Outdoor and Sportswear Coalitions.
They also are consolidating all supply chain functions within a new Global Supply organization, under the leadership of George Derhofer, 51, who is promoted to Senior Vice President, Global Operations. In his new role, Derhofer will be responsible for leveraging VF's global supply chain capabilities for maximum speed, flexibility and efficiency. Manufacturing, sourcing, operations and information services/information technology functions will now be under the leadership of Derhofer's teams in the U.S. and Europe. He will continue to have responsibility for VF's Imagewear Coalition, which comprises our Occupational Apparel and Licensed Sports Apparel businesses, and will assume responsibility for our VF Outlet division. Since February of 2004, Derhofer has been serving as Vice President and Chairman of VF's Intimate Apparel and Imagewear Coalitions.
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