{"id":22766,"date":"2017-03-18T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com?p=22766"},"modified":"2017-03-16T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:23:52","slug":"business-news-winter-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/business-n-en\/buisiness_news-2\/business-news-winter-2016.html","title":{"rendered":"Business News : Winter 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22757 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-186-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"GMT_n50_Fr-186\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-186-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-186.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/>THOMAS MEIER<\/strong> is the new CEO of <strong>GLASH\u00dcTTE ORIGINAL<\/strong>. He took up the appointment in October after 20 years spent with various Swatch Group companies (Mido, Swatch Access, Breguet, ETA) as well as serving as a member of the Extended Group Management Board since 2005. His predecessor Yann Gamard will continue to work elsewhere within the group.<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-normal\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" ><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-22754 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-187-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"GMT_n50_Fr-187\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-187-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-187.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/>LAURENT GABORIT<\/strong> was entrusted by <strong>JAEGER-LECOULTRE<\/strong> in September with a newly created post : Managing Director in charge of Product Design, Marketing, Communication, Sales and Distribution. His watch industry experience is based on 15 years at the head of Cartier subsidiaries around the world, preceded by six years with L\u2019Or\u00e9al in Asia and Paris.<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-normal\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" ><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22748 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-189-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"GMT_n50_Fr-189\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-189-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-189.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>NICOLAS BARETZKI\u2019S<\/strong> career is reaching new heights, as he will be taking up his appointment as CEO of <strong>MONTBLANC<\/strong> in April 2017, having served the brand as Executive VP Sales since 2013, preceded by 12 years as International Sales Director for Jaeger-LeCoultre and eight years with Cartier in a variety of functions including marketing management.<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-normal\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" ><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22745 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-184-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"GMT_n50_Fr-184\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-184-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-184.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/>MATTHIEU AVERLAN<\/strong> joined <strong>ULYSSE NARDIN<\/strong> in November as International Sales Director, after acquiring solid international experience with the Swatch Group and subsequently Jaeger-LeCoultre, where he was most recently in charge of the North American, Russian and Swiss markets.<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-normal\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" ><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22751 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-188.jpg\" alt=\"GMT_n50_Fr-188\" width=\"296\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-188.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-188-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/strong>Since 2016, <strong>ANDR\u00c9 MEIER<\/strong> is the new CEO of <strong>ATTILA<\/strong> which distributes the Bomberg, Gucci, Graham, Hublot, HYT and Zenith brands in Mexico. He spent most of his career at Blancpain before joining Julien Coudray and subsequently Lebeau-Courally.<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-normal\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" ><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22760 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-185-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"GMT_n50_Fr-185\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-185-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n50_Fr-185.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>L\u00c9ONARD PICTET<\/strong> has been appointed Brand Manager Switzerland for <strong>A. LANGE &amp; S\u00d6HNE<\/strong>, after devoting the first five years of his career to working for Jaeger-LeCoultre in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, notably in the marketing and sales departments.<div class=\"edgtf-separator-holder clearfix  edgtf-separator-center edgtf-separator-normal\">\n\t<div class=\"edgtf-separator\" ><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LOUIS FERLA<\/strong> was appointed Managing Director Sales &amp; Marketing at <strong>VACHERON CONSTANTIN<\/strong> in November, after ten years spent working for Cartier in China, the Middle East and Switzerland, as well as ten years in Hong Kong on the senior management team of other non watch-industry businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLASH\u00dcTTE ORIGINAL, JAEGER-LECOULTRE, MONTBLANC, ULYSSE NARDIN, ATTILA, VACHERON CONSTANTIN, A. LANGE &#038; S\u00d6HNE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":22743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22770,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22766\/revisions\/22770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}