L Brands Announced Leadership Appointments at Bath & Body Works
December 21 2020 - 7:15AM
L Brands, Inc. (NYSE: LB) has announced several key leadership
appointments at Bath & Body Works. Julie Rosen has joined the
business as President, and Deon Riley will join the business at the
end of December as Chief Human Resources Officer. Rosen and Riley
will report to Andrew Meslow, Chief Executive Officer, L Brands and
Bath & Body Works. In addition, Bath & Body Works also
announced a number of internal promotions that were made recently:
- Chris Cramer has been promoted to
Chief Operating Officer;
- Danielle Demko has been promoted to
Executive Vice President and General Manager of Bath & Body
Works’ direct channel;
- George Arenschield has been
promoted to Executive Vice President, Merchandise, Planning and
Allocation; and
- Ron Ford has been named Executive
Vice President and Head of Stores and Sales.
“These appointments and promotions will support
the continued growth of Bath & Body Works,” said Meslow. “Julie
is an experienced and talented merchant leader who will lead us in
continuing to develop compelling products across all categories,
and Deon is a well-rounded and experienced human resources
professional who will elevate our efforts to cultivate a healthy
and thriving company culture. These two high-caliber individuals
are excellent additions to our executive leadership team.”
Meslow continued, “I’ve worked closely with
Chris, Danielle, George and Ron for the last 15 years, and their
promotions reflect their contributions to the brand, and
demonstrate the strength and tenure of our leadership team. They
are stellar leaders who care about our associates and customers and
who are passionate about the brand and our business.”
About Julie Rosen:Julie Rosen,
whose scope of responsibility in the business includes
merchandising and design, brings a merchant background and a
breadth of leadership experience across merchandising, design,
planning, production, marketing, stores and digital. She ran her
own retail consulting business with clients including Nike, Theory
and Bare Escentuals. Rosen started her career at Banana Republic
and took on progressively larger roles within the merchant team for
the brand and Gap and eventually became Executive Vice President
for Banana Republic North America, with responsibility for the
global product assortment. After more than 20 years at Gap brands,
she moved to Ascena in 2016, where her last role was President, Ann
Taylor and Loft.
About Deon Riley:Deon Riley is
a strategic HR business partner and executive coach with experience
in large, growth-focused, merchant- and brand-driven organizations,
across the consumer goods, retail and manufacturing sectors. She
joins Bath & Body Works from Ross Stores, where she has spent
the past eight years, most recently as the Group Senior Vice
President of HR, culture and diversity and inclusion, with
responsibility across home office, stores, supply chain,
distribution centers and technology, supporting more than 70,000
associates. Prior to Ross, she held HR leadership roles at
Abercrombie & Fitch, where she established a field HR team from
the ground up and managed global mobility, compliance and all HR
protocols related to international expansion to more than 20
countries. She started her career in sales with United Technologies
Corporation, before growing her HR career at PepsiCo.
About Chris Cramer:With L
Brands for 19 years and the last 15 of those at Bath & Body
Works, Chris Cramer has held brand roles from Chief Financial
Officer to leading Merchandise Planning and Allocation and, most
recently, led Bath & Body Works’ direct business. Cramer has
been instrumental in the growth of the online channel during the
past three years, taking the business from $450 million in sales to
more than $1 billion.
About Danielle Demko:Danielle
Demko most recently was Senior Vice President of Merchandise
Planning and Allocation for body care. Prior to that, she led home
fragrance planning and allocation as the category doubled in
volume. Demko has served in increasingly larger roles Merchandise
Planning and Allocation and financial strategy during the past 16
years with the brand. She started her career in investment
banking.
About George Arenschield:With
26 years in the enterprise and the last 13 at Bath & Body
Works, George Arenschield is a home-grown leader with deep planning
and allocation expertise, including having held the senior role in
finance and planning for the online channel. Arenschield
architected the path to grow candles to $1 billion in 2019, and has
helped nearly double the soap and sanitizer category this year.
About Ron Ford:Ron Ford has
held increasingly larger leadership roles in the Bath & Body
Works stores organization for the past 17 years. He has
demonstrated connectivity with sales associates at all levels and a
track record of developing talented field leaders. Ron and his team
have sucessfully opened more than 850 remodeled or new stores, and
the fleet has delivered a 7 percent compounded sales growth rate
since 2015, while building an incredibly strong relationship with
our customers.
ABOUT L BRANDS:L Brands, through Victoria’s
Secret, PINK and Bath & Body Works, is an international
company. The company operates 2,681 company-operated specialty
stores in the United States, Canada and Greater China, and its
brands are also sold in more than 700 franchised locations
worldwide. The company’s products are also available online at
www.BathandBodyWorks.com, www.VictoriasSecret.com and
www.PINK.com.
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