Global Fashion Industry‘s shining stars Catherine Spindler has announced that she is moving out of leisure, sports and fashion brand Lacoste. Catherine has been with the company since 2019.
Even as she joined the iconic brand, which celebrated its 90th year anniversary in 2024, was faced with severe business challenges at the turn of 2020 when the dreaded Covid-19 virus spread worldwide and disrupted the way consumers shopped, especially for leisure and fashion products.
Catherine joined Lacoste in 2019 as Executive Vice President, Brand & Marketing and later grew to become the Chief Brand Officer in Feb. 2021, before becoming Deputy CEO in Sep. 2022.
Alongside, she has been on the Board of Pandora, a global fashion brand as well as on the Advisory Board of Meta, the parent company of Facebook & WhatsApp.
We offer our best wishes to Catherine in her new role.
Update:
Catherine has updated her Linkedin Profile that she has joined global prestige beauty brand Sephora as President, Europe and Middle East. Sephora operates in 34 markets worldwide, with a curation of 500 brands and employs 52,000 employees.
Sephora had reported global revenues of USD 16 Bn for 2023, 3/4th of it coming from online sales and is a part of the eponymous LVMH group.
Founded by French tennis legend René Lacoste, four-time international champion and the word’s best player in 1926-1927, the Lacoste brand draws inspiration from sporting values of high standards, fair play and daring. We pass down these values through the generations and cultivate elegance as a way of being and inventing one’s life.
Lacoste brand is present in over 100 countries and employs 8,500 staff members across 1,100 physical stores and over 43 online stores which are market specific.
In India, Lacoste operates 230 stores in 43 cities. Lacoste’s global revenues for 2022 was EUR 2.5 Bn.