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Genesco announces Lids Sports Group leadership changes

05 Feb '16

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Genesco Inc., a Nashville-based specialty retailer of footwear, headwear, sports apparel, and accessories, has announced today that Kenneth J. Kocher has resigned as president of the Company's Lids Sports Group and as a senior vice president of Genesco.

Kocher is expected to remain employed by the Company in a consulting capacity for up to six months. The Company has begun a search for Kocher's successor. In the interim, Genesco chairman, president, and chief executive officer Robert J. Dennis will act as the Group's president, according to a press release.

Dennis said, “I look forward to working closely with the senior leadership team at the Lids Sports Group during this transitional period. Ken Kocher has led this business through an exciting and dynamic phase of its development, and we thank him for his contributions and wish him the best in his future endeavours. I am confident that the renewed focus and discipline that we have brought to the business over the past year have laid the groundwork for us to realise the tremendous potential of the retail and omni-channel concepts within the Group, starting with the new fiscal year we begin this week. We are launching a comprehensive, nationwide search, in addition to evaluating qualified internal candidates, to identify the right person to lead the highly talented Lids Sports team as they build on that foundation and work to realise that potential.” (GK)

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