MARC O'POLO BRINGS IN JAN BRINKMANN TO FURTHER EXPAND MARC O’POLO SHOES
Despite a challenging market environment, the Marc O’Polo Shoes division is developing very successfully. Over the last three years, the casual lifestyle brand has more than doubled its sales in this segment. These figures already represent a double-digit percentage of Group sales. In order to push the further national and international expansion of the shoe collections, the company has hired shoes expert Jan Brinkmann as Director Division Shoes.
"We are very pleased to welcome Jan, an accomplished shoe expert with many years of international experience, for the further expansion of our Shoes Division," says Maximilian Böck CEO of Marc O'Polo SE. "At the side of Karl-Heinz Lauterbach, the head of this division, Jan will begin by focusing primarily on the topics of sales and marketing."
Over the course of FY 23/24, Jan Brinkmann will successively take over the topics of product development and procurement from Karl-Heinz Lauterbach. Lauterbach will leave the company at his own request at the end of FY 23/24 in May 2024, following 17 very successful years. He will subsequently support the company in an advisory capacity.
Jan Brinkmann: "I am very much looking forward to my role at Marc O'Polo and to becoming part of the Marc O'Polo family. I am particularly looking forward to actively shaping the already very impressive development that Karl Heinz Lauterbach and the team of the Shoes Division have achieved.”
Jan Brinkmann's CV lists various comparable management positions, with a focus on sales at renowned brands such as Rieker and Tamaris, many years at Gabor, and international experience in the USA. Most recently, he was Director of Pius Gabor/Rollingsoft Men at Gabor Shoes AG, where he was responsible for both men's shoe brands across product development, procurement, marketing and sales.
Jan Brinkmann will join Marc O'Polo on 1 July 2023.
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