TOM TAILOR Holding SE
TOM TAILOR Holding SE with reconstituted Supervisory Board (news with additional features)
– With Dr Thomas Tochtermann and Otmar Debald, the Annual General Meeting elects two experienced managers as shareholder representative to the Supervisory Board – Dr Tochtermann named new Chairman of the Supervisory Board Hamburg, 22. June 2017: The 2017 Annual General Meeting of TOM TAILOR Holding SE, convened in Hamburg on 31 May 2017, passed all proposed resolutions with large majorities and elected, with Dr Thomas Tochtermann (57) and Otmar Debald (62), two new shareholder representatives to the Supervisory Board. At the constituting meeting that followed, the Supervisory Board elected Dr Thomas Tochtermann as new Chairman. “We’re delighted to have the comprehensive industry and leadership experience of our new Supervisory Board members at our disposal and are looking forward to the input they will provide,” said Dr Heiko Schäfer, CEO of TOM TAILOR Holding SE. “While Dr Tochtermann, as an acknowledged expert in transformation processes in fashion companies, will provide valuable support in the realignment of the TOM TAILOR GROUP, Mr. Debald will enrich the Supervisory Board especially with his extensive financial expertise.” With Dr Thomas Tochtermann, the TOM TAILOR GROUP is gaining an internationally experienced manager with many years of expertise in the fashion and lifestyle sector. He spent 30 years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, specializing in brand management as well as the fashion and consumer goods sector. Moreover, he has extensive experience in the areas of strategy, marketing, organization and sales that he will now contribute in his role as a member of the TOM TAILOR GROUP Supervisory Board. Since June 2014, Dr Tochtermann has worked as an independent adviser and Supervisory Board member for international consumer goods and fashion companies as well as international institutions. Dr Tochtermann is succeeding Jerome Griffith, who, along with the previous Deputy Chairman Thomas Schlytter-Henrichsen, departed from the Supervisory Board at his own request. The Management Board and Supervisory Board wish to thank both departing members for their trusting cooperation over the past years and their support with the realignment of the TOM TAILOR GROUP. The new Deputy Chairwomen of the Supervisory Board is the employee representative Barbara Pfeiffer. The financial expert Otmar Debald was also appointed as a new shareholder representative on the Company’s Supervisory Board. Mr. Debald, who earned a degree in economics, spent 30 years in various roles with the consumer goods group Procter & Gamble, most recently as the CFO of Procter & Gamble Germany, where he was also responsible for logistics and customer service in the DACH region. In 2013 he joined Corfina AG as a senior adviser, and since 2015 he has been the founder and managing director of PP PicturePartners GmbH. In addition, the shareholders meeting confirmed the appointments of Yun (Joann) Cheng and Dr Junyang (Jenny) Shao to the TOM TAILOR GROUP Supervisory Board. They have served as shareholder representatives since September 2016 and February 2017, respectively, on behalf of the major shareholder Fosun International Ltd. Ms. Cheng (41) has been the CFO of the China Momentum Fund since 2016. She has many years’ experience in the financial sector, including stints as the CFO of DJI Innovation and the Allyes Group and in a senior role in the auditing division of KPMG. Dr Shao (36) has been a senior director with the Fosun Group in Frankfurt since 2016. Before that she gained experience with Acxit Capital Partners, PricewaterhouseCoopers and in the business and law faculty of the University of Wiesbaden. The fifth shareholder representative is Andreas Karpenstein who was not up for election. In addition, the Annual General Meeting appointed on 31 May 2017 the five employee representatives who were up to election the first time after the conversion of the company into a Societas Europaea (SE). Therewith, the Supervisory Board of TOM TAILOR Holding SE now consists of the following members: Dr Thomas Tochtermann (Chairman), Barbara Pfeiffer (Deputy Chairwoman), Stefanie Branahl, Yun (Joann) Cheng, Otmar Debald, Andreas Karpenstein, Oliver Kerinnes, Dr Junyang (Jenny) Shao, Sven Terpe, Kitty Cleijne-Wouters.
About TOM TAILOR GROUP TOM TAILOR GROUP is an international, vertically aligned fashion and lifestyle company that focusses on so called Casual Wear offered in the medium price segment. The product portfolio is complemented by a broad range of fashionable accessories. With its umbrella brands TOM TAILOR and BONITA, the Group addresses various segments of the fashion market. The TOM TAILOR brand is marketed through the retail and wholesale segments, and thus through single-label stores as well as wholesale partners. At the 31 March 2017, these comprised 469 TOM TAILOR stores and 195 franchise stores, 2.936 shop-in-shops and around 8,300 multi-label points of sale. The brand is present in more than 35 countries. BONITA has 914 retail stores as well as 56 shop-in-shop spaces. The collections of both brands are also available through their respective online shops. Further information is also available at www.tom-tailor-group.com and www.BONITA.eu
Media and investor contact Felix Zander Lena Christin Wulfmeyer End of Media Release Additional features: Document: http://n.eqs.com/c/fncls.ssp?u=SDKYKQMRJE Document title: TOM TAILOR Holding SE with reconstituted Supervisory Board Issuer: TOM TAILOR Holding SE Key word(s): Enterprise
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Company: | TOM TAILOR Holding SE |
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