Comptoir des Cotonniers appoints International Retail Director
Nathalie Schneider has joined the Fast Retailing group as International Retail Director for the Comptoir des Cotonniers brand. Nathalie Schneider began her career with the family firm Ducs de Gascogne as Product Manager and then Distribution Network Manager. After five years, she joined Interbrands Romania, the exclusive distributor of the Mars, Procter &Gamble, Wrigley and BAT brands in the country, as Management Control Supervisor. She left the agri-food sector in 1998 to join the retail industry at Levi Strauss. She would remain with this company for almost 14 years, notably fulfilling the roles of Retail Operations Manager then Sales Director for the Dockers brand, before being appointed Commercial Director for Levi Strauss and finally Managing Director for France, its overseas territories and departments, and French-speaking African countries. Nathalie Schneider then joined the Benetton group in 2012, where for two years she held the position of Sales and retail director for Northern Europe (including France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland, Benelux and Scandinavia).