Last Friday when word was getting out that a few of the people at COMUNE were leaving the company we only had one question: is Corey Smith leaving with them? His name was not on the list. Turns out he is not leaving the COMUNE and the company is not folding. It’s simply moving from Costa Mesa to the Los Angeles Art District.
Co-founding partner, Sven Altmetz, has taken over the helm from co-founder Frank Delgadillo. The original COMUNE designer, Jacob McCabe, will maintain his position as the head designer and continues working with his design staff. Corey Smith will continue to head up the Drop City program, Contributing Artists program and the Snow Team.
Alrighty then, back to work. For the rest of Comune’s official statement, follow the jump.Comune Official Statement
Last Friday, lifestyle brand COMUNE announced its plan to relocated its operational headquarters from Costa Mesa, CA to the Los Angeles Art District. At the same time, several members of the COMUNE team have chosen to resign from their positions at the company. COMUNE is deeply saddened by the resignations of these employees and wants to thank them for the contributions they have made.
Co-founding partner, Sven Altmetz, has taken over the helm from co-founder Frank Delgadillo. The original COMUNE designer, Jacob McCabe, will maintain his position as the head designer and continues working with his design staff. Corey Smith will continue to head up the Drop City program, Contributing Artists program and the Snow Team.
“COMNUE is determined to work through this change,” says Altmetz. “We are in the process of replacing the sales and marketing team with qualified people who represent the image of the brand and whom we are certain will work well without distributors and retailers.”
Altmetz also assures current retailers that all Fall and Holiday orders will be shipped in a timely manner as the company will continue operating business-as-usual.
COMUNE insists it will stay rooted in the foundation that has motivated the brand since its start three years ago. The conceprt, design vision and merchandising will continue without interruption.
Look for the exciting new COMUNE Spring 2012 Men’s and Women’s lines at trade shows or via your local sales representative.
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
There exists only 1 boss. The customer. And that he can fire everybody inside company from your chairman on down, by simply spending his money elsewhere.
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