Turner CN Enterprises Restructures EMEA Consumer Products Team

LONDON: Turner CN Enterprises (TCNE) has streamlined its consumer products team, which has been realigned to focus on two key areas: retail and licensees.

Maria Rosaria Milone, the senior commercial director, will lead a new category sales team and is responsible for developing licensing strategies with local and regional trends in mind. Leila Loumi has been appointed as the head of category for apparel, accessories and footwear for EMEA. Additional head of category appointments, who have all been promoted from within the company, include Jason Rice for toys and sports; Annabel Rochfort for themed entertainment; Victoria Saint for publishing, video games and music; and Sandra Selva-Abril for stationery and home. David Berry holds on to his consulting role for Turner by also acting as head of category for food and promotions while Turner recruits the full-time post. 

Milone and the category team report to Alan Fenwick, the VP of TCNE. Also reporting to Fenwick is the new head of retail team, all of whom have been promoted within the company. Graham Saltmarsh has been appointed to head of retail for the U.K., Italy, France and Nordics, with Kathrin Schenk as head of retail for GAS, CEE, Russia and Benelux, and Mar Romera for Spain and Portugal.

Additional retail appointments, also reporting to Fenwick, include Amir Demian as the head of retail business development for the Middle East, North Africa, Greece and Cyprus, and Archana Keskar as head of retail business development for Africa and Israel.

Fenwick said: “The business is carefully designed to be a truly client and retail-facing enterprise. In addition to promoting existing members of our talented team we have also recruited some of the brightest talents from the industry—bringing a fresh perspective and a proven track record of success.”

Milone added, “All of our heads of category and their teams are tasked with setting a new industry standard for managing client relationships that will help us to deliver world class licensing campaigns. We are delighted [with] Leila, [who] is bringing her extensive experience in fashion and relationships in the sector to support our strongest ever portfolio of brands.”

Fenwick concluded, “By listening to our internal and external partners, we have redesigned the entire team and structured their roles to deliver the focused support that is essential to retailers and licensees. At the same time, we have fully-aligned the roles to collaborate more closely with our local channel and central support teams which we’re confident will bring innovative, integrated solutions for all our partners.”