Ben Lewis, the former Chief Executive Officer from River Island, returns to the British retailer. The announcement that the CEO Richard Bradbury was leaving the company was preceded.
Bradbury, who leaves for personal reasons, was CEO of River Island until 2010 before retreating. In December 2022 he returned to the company to also take on the role of the CEO.
“It was a great honor for me to have worked twice in this amazing company,” said the outgoing CEO Bradbury. “The River Island team is incredible, and in the past two years we have achieved so much together to do the company for to position his next phase. “
Lewis also held the CEO post once before leaving in 2019. Now the nephew of the River Island founder Bernard Lewis will return to the top of the company with immediate effect, as the company confirmed at the request of Fashionunited.
In addition, Clive Lewis, the son of the River Island founder, will return to his former role as a non-managing chairman.
The change of leadership follows a difficult time for River Island. The company is said to have consulted financial advisors in January: the inside of the year before that it had a loss before taxes of 32.2 million British pounds.
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