Jörg Hensen new Managing Director of Fashion Friends
On February 1, 2013, Jörg Hensen will take over as CEO of the online fashion boutique Fashionfriends.ch from Peter Schüpbach. Schüpbach will step down to the board of directors at that time.
Jörg Hensen has experience in the field of e-commerce. He was most recently Director Northern Europe in Paris at the shopping club Vente-privee.com. Prior to that, the business graduate worked for Quelle-Versand for nine years, where he was CEO of the Swiss subsidiary in St. Gallen. Jörg Hensen is to drive the growth of Fashionfriends.ch as detailed in a press release issued by the Tamedia subsidiary.
Peter Schüpbach founded the Swiss shopping club Fashionfriends.ch in 2009 together with other partners and Tamedia. After four years of development work, Peter Schüpbach is stepping down from the Board of Directors at his own request in order to focus on new operational projects, the press release explains further. Peter Schüpbach will continue to support Fashionfriends.ch as a member of the Board of Directors and will remain an important shareholder in the company with a 35 percent stake.
The Swiss media group Tamedia has gradually increased its stake in the online fashion boutique and has held a majority stake of 65 percent since last year.
Teaser image: Fashionfriends.ch
