{"id":892,"date":"2008-06-09T08:43:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T16:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=892"},"modified":"2008-06-10T07:47:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T15:47:12","slug":"burton-hires-director-of-european-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"Burton Hires Director of European Retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a press release posted on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardsportsource.com\/show_news_item\/30310\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Boardsport Source<\/a><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burton<\/a><\/strong> has announced that <strong>Francesco Navach<\/strong> will be the company&#8217;s first &#8220;European Director of Retail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Francesco will strengthen Burton&#8217;s retail business and drive all of Burton Europe&#8217;s retail initiatives. He will report directly to <strong>Hermann Kapferer<\/strong>, Burton Europe&#8217;s General Manager and <strong>Cathy Quain<\/strong>, VP of Retail in the US.<br \/>\n . . . Francesco spent nearly 10 years working for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenorthface.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The North Face<\/a><\/strong>, where he oversaw the opening of around 40 Stores, first as Retail Manager EMEA and from 2005 on as Retail Director EMEA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Burton is bringing in the retail hitters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardsportsource.com\/show_news_item\/30310\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Boardsport Source<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a press release posted on Boardsport Source Burton has announced that Francesco Navach will be the company&#8217;s first &#8220;European Director of Retail.&#8221; Francesco will strengthen Burton&#8217;s retail business and drive all of Burton Europe&#8217;s retail initiatives. He will report directly to Hermann Kapferer, Burton Europe&#8217;s General Manager and Cathy Quain, VP of Retail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}