Juicy Couture names new CEO

By

Florent Gilles

Published
Dec 4, 2012

Juicy Couture, owned by American group Fifth & Pacific, has filled the position left by Edgar Huber with Paul Blum, new CEO of the company. Since Huber’s departure, the position was jointly filled by the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Operating Officer.

Throughout the course of his long career, new CEO Paul Blum held the COO position at Kenneth Cole, where he stayed for 15 years before leaving the company for a position at New York jewelers, David Yurman. Blum spent five years at the company.

Paul Blum briefly returned to Kenneth Cole in 2011 as CEO but left to take up the same position at Juicy Couture. He will be reporting to the CEO of Fifth & Pacific, William McComb. We've come a long way in the past two years in reinvigorating Juicy, but we have more to accomplish," said LeAnn Nealz, President and Chief Creative Officer of Juicy Couture. "We look forward to welcoming Paul and moving forward with our turnaround of the business."