Fashion’s Talent Race: Executive Pay Soars
Excerpt from WWD.com – July 30, 2012
At the end of the day, compensation should always be tied to performance,” said Elaine Hughes, president of search firm E.A. Hughes & Co.
Fashion’s Talent Race: Executive Pay Soars (paid WWD subscription required)
Article by Evan Clark
The New CEO: What It Takes in Today’s World
Excerpt from WWD.com – July 23, 2012
Elaine Hughes, president of E.A. Hughes & Co., said companies are required to do their quarterly due diligence on succession planning, but very few companies actually do it. VF Corp. is diligent about it and seldom recruits from the outside. Hughes said the ceo succession from Mackey McDonald to Eric Wiseman was seamless. At Jones Group Inc., president Richard Dickson was hired from the outside, as was William McComb at Liz Claiborne Inc. (now Fifth & Pacific Cos. Inc.)
The New CEO: What It Takes in Today’s World (paid WWD.com subscription required)
Article by Lisa Lockwood
Jones Struggles to Find Fit
Excerpt from CrainsNewYork.com – January 15, 2012
“She has been current, if not visionary, on product, has tremendous customer insight and knows how to respond immediately as that customer evolves,” said Elaine Hughes, who runs retail executive search firm E.A. Hughes & Co.
Jones Struggles to Find Fit
Article by Adrianne Pasquarelli
Trudy Sullivan to Retire as Talbots CEO
Excerpt from WWD.com – August 13, 2013
“There’s no doubting that she’s very smart,” said Elaine Hughes, president of executive search firm E.A. Hughes & Co., … “But with some of these stores that have a long brand heritage, like Talbots does, it’s very difficult to try to contemporize that product.”
“There’s a reason for Talbots because you have an underserved customer,” she said. “That customer isn’t shopping J. Crew. She’s a middle-age woman who’s not refusing to grow old, but wants to be current and contemporary in her thought process.”
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Article by Vicki M. Young and Lisa Lockwood
Talbots Looking For New President
Excerpt from online.WSJ.com – November 30, 2011
“To distinguish itself in the market,” said Elaine Hughes, owner of E.A. Hughes & Co., a retail-industry search firm in New York … “Talbots needs to resonate with the consumer as a brand.”
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Article by Joann S. Lublin
Barneys snags a stylish new CEO
Excerpt from CrainsNewYork.com – August 23, 2010
“He has a lot of depth of experience in the luxury sector to understand ultimately what that customer is looking for,” said Elaine Hughes, who runs retail executive search firm E.A. Hughes. “For Barneys, now there is public leadership rather than a management by committee, and that’s always positive.”
Barneys snags a stylish new CEO
Article by Adrianne Pasquarelli
