Everything about Kim Winser totally explained
Kim Winser,
OBE was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the British luxury fashion brand,
Aquascutum, in April
2006 with a brief to significantly grow the business globally. She launched a new advertising campaign with
Pierce Brosnan in her first season.Prior to this appointment, Winser was most recently associated with the turnaround of
Pringle of Scotland.
Appointed to the role of Pringle's CEO following its takeover in
2000, Winser “morphed one of the oldest fashion labels in the world from frumpy to fabulous in less than five years” (
The Herald, March
2005). She developed a powerful brand strategy, reined the international licenses back in-house and worked on growing the brand internationally by identifying Pringle’s key global markets. She launched a retail division, opening flagship stores in
Bond Street and
Sloane Street,
London and across the world. She worked closely on the product and launched it to the fashion industry by showing on the
Milan runway and opening showrooms in key markets important to the world of luxury fashion.
Before joining
Pringle, Winser was the only female director of
Marks & Spencer where she ran the womenswear division. Under her direction, the women's business grew substantially in sales, market share and profit. She joined M&S in
1977 as a management trainee and during her time there held such senior positions as executive for menswear buying and divisional director of the womenswear group. She was also responsible for setting up the first marketing group for the company and held senior positions overseas with both
Brooks Brothers and
Marks & Spencer’s Canadian business.
Kim Winser is listed number three in the
Wall Street Journal Europe’s most successful business women; she's one of
Business Week’s most innovative businesswomen in
Britain; and
Fortune Magazine and
Management Today have both named Winser as one of the most powerful women in business.
She works with
The Princes Trust and
CHAS (the only children’s hospice in Scotland) alongside
Ewan McGregor. Winser was awarded a Doctorate by
Heriot-Watt University in
2003 and an
OBE for services to the fashion industry in the
2006 New Year’s honours list. She was born in
1959 in
Helensburgh, Scotland and educated at Purbrook Grammar School in
Hampshire.
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