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Timberland hires new VP of global marketing

28 July 2020

Timberland hired Drieke Leenknegt in June to be its vice president of global marketing and join its global leadership team. She is succeeding Argu Secilmis, who has become vice president of global apparel. Leenknegt will be liaising with the brand’s marketing regional teams, in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe, the ...

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VF to open multi-brand store in Milan

21 July 2020

VF Corp. will be opening its first multi-brand store, called Orefici 11 Milano, in the autumn. Located in the Italian city, the three-level, 22,000-square-foot store is meant to reflect its surroundings, mimicking the courtyards, façades and balconies of typical Milanese apartment buildings, the so-called case di ringhiera (guard-rail houses). As ...

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Timberland continues to invest in regenerative agriculture

2 June 2020

Timberland has partnered with the Savory Institute, a non-profit focused on the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands, to build a regenerative leather supply chain. This new initiative builds on the brand’s announcement, in November 2019, of a collaboration with Other Half Processing to build a leather supply chain sourced ...

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VF claims it can hike through the Covid storm easily

15 May 2020

In releasing its financial results for the fourth quarter ended on March 31, the management of VF Corp. insisted that the company is in a better position than some of its competitors to navigate through the “storm” caused by the coronavirus pandemic for several reasons, including good liquidity, a flexible ...

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Timberland releases 2019 CSR report

5 May 2020

In 2019, Timberland, a VF Corp. brand, continued to push forward with its sustainability goals. For all cotton sourced by Timberland, including licenced apparel and accessories, Timberland increased its use of sustainably sourced cotton by 3 percent over the previous year to reach 77.5 percent. As for leather, 99.7 percent ...

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VF lowers outlook and announces refinancing

23 April 2020

While releasing new financial data and targets and announcing new measures to refinance itself, VF Corporation indicated that it wants to acquire more fast-growing action brands like Altra or Icebreaker and become more “vertical,” boosting a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business that has come to represent 39 percent of its turnover. As ...

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Timberland rewards patience with new trees

28 February 2020

According to Reuters, Timberland has since August been encouraging customers to choose four- to eight-day delivery, rather than standard three-day service. In exchange for every such exercise in patience, the outdoor brand will plant a tree. As a rule, of course, the slower the delivery, the less it costs and ...

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VF lowers its outlook

27 January 2020

(SGI) In releasing its results for its third quarter ended on Dec. 28 on Thursday, VF Corporation said its business so far this year has performed at the high end of its group’s long-term growth objectives, but the management admitted that it will not be able to meet the targets ...