Rob Templeman news and archive

Jack Wills ropes in retail veteran Rob Templeman

British fashion label Jack Wills has brought retail veteran Rob Templeman on board to sort out the issues between the company and its co-founder Peter Williams, reports Retail Gazette. It was earlier reported that Williams is expected to leave his CEO’s role over disagreement with BlueGem, the private equity investor that holds a controlling 60...

Design

Run up to Graduate Fashion Week

With the much anticipated Graduate Fashion Week upon us, at the beginning of next month, fashion visitors can expect developments to this year's event. Firstly, two catwalk halls will host the final collections from 21 leading universities from across the UK and culminate with the gala show in which one student will walk away with the George...

Fashion

Retailers need to keep serving community

In a new report published by The British Retail Consortium, research shows that UK retailers are prepared to invest vast amounts of time and money into local charitable work. In ‘Retail in Society: Serving our communities’ cases show that sometimes up to £25million has been spent by traders and thousands of hours by staff on community and...

Design

New chairman GFW

Graduate Fashion Week (GFW) announced that Rob Templeman, ex CEO of Debenhams, is succeeding Terry Mansfield CBE as Chairman GFW from 17th November 2011. Stepping down after seven years, GFW and President Jeff Banks are hugely grateful to Terry Mansfield CBE for his support and dedication. Rob Templeman will drive the event into its 21st year in...