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Ecco CEO stands down

Reports indicate that Panos Mytaros has resigned as chief executive of footwear group ECCO, effective immediately. He has updated his LinkedIn profile to show that he is back in the Netherlands and is ‘open to work’. In the interim, Thomas Gøgsig has been appointed as the acting CEO while the company evaluates its leadership...

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