MARKS & Spencer unveiled further management changes in its non-food division ahead of announcing an expected fall in sales and profits today.
Frances Russell, who was the retailer’s director of lingerie and beauty, has been promoted to the position of director of womenswear with immediate effect.
Russell, a former director of Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia, has been at the company for four years and replaces Annette Browne, the womenswear trading director.
Janie Schaffer, currently chief creative officer at lingerie firm Victoria’s Secret, will succeed Russell early next year.
The latest appointments complete the senior general merchandise team, headed by John Dixon, who moved from food to succeed Kate Bostock last month.
Chief executive Marc Bolland cautioned that the rejigged team’s impact would not start to come through until the firm launched autumn/winter collections in July next year.
The retailer is today expected to report a 2.5 per cent fall in second-quarter underlying general merchandise sales and an 11 per cent fall in first-half profit.
