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Federica Marchionni is trading high fashion for flannel and sweaters. She's departing her leadership role at Dolce & Gabbana USA to become the next CEO of Lands’ End. Lands’ End made the announcement Monday, and said its current CEO, Edgar Huber, will resign in about two weeks. He's been on the job for three-and-a-half years and his bio shows a career centered around fashion and makeup. Marchionni is cut from a different cloth: She started in tech before moving to luxury brands as a senior vice president at Ferrari and president of Dolce & Gabbana USA.

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Omni Ventures, Inc. announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, PRVCY Couture, Inc., has appointed Mr. Robert DeSantis to the position of the Chairman of the Advisory Board charged with assisting the management in further development and implementation of its branding and marketing strategy. Robert DeSantis has spent most of his career in the field of marketing and brand development. In 1990, Mr. DeSantis identified the potential and mechanisms of Television Home Shopping founders HSN and QVC and formed SKLA INC., which generated over $150 million in sales by 1997. Robert DeSantis is currently President of

This past year has seen a small, niche food purveyor begin its slow rise out of anonymity. Mackenzie Limited, a catalog of primarily high-end imported seafood, has struck two interesting deals. It acquired the consumer mail-order business of a domestic seafood supplier, and it signed a licensing and fulfillment deal with a seafood restaurant chain. Here’s the inside story on a catalog company that’s emerging onto the industry’s radar screen. Baltimore-based Mackenzie Limited today is owned by the father-daughter team of Walter Cederholm and Laura McManus. Cederholm is a retired quality control specialist in the nuclear power industry and works at Mackenzie only