Kathmandu Holdings Limited Announces Appointment of Brooke Farris as Chief Executive Officer of Rip Curl, Effective from 16 August 2021
August 12, 2021 at 05:37 pm EDT
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Kathmandu Holdings Limited announced the appointment of Brooke Farris as Chief Executive Officer of Rip Curl. Brooke will report to Michael Daly in her new capacity as Rip Curl Chief Executive Officer. Brooke began working with Rip Curl in 2010; a long relationship that has encompassed a range of roles within the brand, from running Rip Curl surf events around the world, executing marketing strategy across retail, wholesale, social media, team, and events as the ANZ Marketing Manager, to leading strong sales growth online as the GM of Digital and forming a key part of Rip Curl's global executive team. Brooke's current role as GM of Women's has seen her renewing the focus and vision of the women's brand while simultaneously growing the women's business globally. Brooke will take up the position of Rip Curl CEO effective from 16 August 2021.
KMD Brands Limited is a New Zealand-based global outdoor, lifestyle and sports company. The Company is a designer, marketer, retailer and wholesaler of apparel, footwear and equipment for surfing and the outdoors. The Company offers three brands, such as Kathmandu, Rip Curl and Oboz. Kathmandu brand is specialized in clothing and equipment for travel and adventure. It provides jackets and vests, accessories, tops, bottom and footwear for men, women and kids. Oboz brand is based in North America and designs True to the Trail outdoor footwear. It manufactures handmade footwear. It offers footwear for hiking, backpacking, casual, insoles and insulation. Rip Curl is a global surf brand, which provides a variety of clothing, such as swimwear, wetsuits, equipment, watches, sunglasses, snow gear and footwear. Its subsidiaries include Kathmandu Limited, Oboz Footwear LLC, Barrel Wave Holdings Pty Ltd and others.