{"id":22942,"date":"2017-03-29T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com?p=22942"},"modified":"2017-03-28T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T09:57:04","slug":"business-news-spring-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/business-n-en\/buisiness_news-2\/business-news-spring-2017.html","title":{"rendered":"Business News : Spring 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22929 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-126-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"GMT_n51_FR_ipad-126\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-126-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-126.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/>Founder of the brand by the same name that he has been heading with his wife Carole since 2004, in July 2017, <strong>PIERRE DUBOIS<\/strong> will become CEO of the <strong>DUBOIS-D\u00c9PRAZ<\/strong> group, whose board is chaired by his brothers Jean-Philippe and Pascal.<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;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22932 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-127-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"GMT_n51_FR_ipad-127\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-127-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-127.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/>Firmly based on her experience within the Richemont Group over the past 20 years and with Cartier in particular, <strong>CHABI NOURI\u2019S<\/strong> international career has reached a new pinnacle with her appointment from April 2017 as CEO of <strong>PIAGET<\/strong>, where she has worked since 2014, most recently as International Managing Director Sales &amp; Marketing.<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;\">Following a number of years outside the industry and 26 years at Swatch Group,<strong> ROBERT EMMONS<\/strong> is rejoining the watchmaking fold with an appointment as Managing Director at <strong>GRAHAM USA<\/strong>. Based in New York, he will also be responsible for managing sales in Canada and the Caribbean.<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;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22923 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-124-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"GMT_n51_FR_ipad-124\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-124-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-124.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>A gentle handover at <strong>VACHERON CONSTANTIN<\/strong> where <strong>JUAN CARLOS TORRES,<\/strong> CEO since 2005, is taking up the position of Chairman of theBoard, and will be replaced in April by <strong>LOUIS FERLA<\/strong>, until now Managing Director Sales &amp; Marketing after 17 years in Asia, mainly for the Richemont 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;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-22926 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-125-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"GMT_n51_FR_ipad-125\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-125-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-125.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>After serving as CEO of Carl-F. Bucherer for ten years, and subsequently Hanhart, <strong>THOMAS MORF<\/strong> has been working on the relaunch of <strong>FAVRE-LEUBA<\/strong>, which is celebrating its big return to Baselworld this year and its 280th anniversary.<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-22935 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GMT_n51_FR_ipad-128-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"GMT_n51_FR_ipad-128\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" \/>FREDERIC MARTIN<\/strong> intensifies his relationship with the watch industry by taking up the position of International Sales &amp; Marketing Manager at <strong>PERRELET<\/strong>, after two years in the same role at Sevenfriday in Zurich, as well as solid experience acquired with Fnac in the distribution of consumer goods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBOIS D\u00c9PRAZ, PIAGET, VACHERON CONSTANTIN, GRAHAM USA, PERRELET, FAVRE-LEUBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":22995,"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\/22942"}],"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=22942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23201,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22942\/revisions\/23201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}