Roxane Al-Fayez has been named executive vice president of e-commerce and catalogs at J. Crew Group Inc. She moves into a newly created position that pulls together a number of responsibilities that had been fragmented among other managers, the company says. She will report to chairman and CEO Millard Drexler.
Al-Fayez most recently was vice president of operations for Gap Inc. Direct, a division of Gap Inc. Before that, she spent nine years at Victoria's Secret Catalogue where she held several positions ending with executive vice president of circulation and international in 1997.
J.Crew operates JCrew.com, a catalog business, 155 retail stores and 42 factory outlet stores. Online sales have been growing strongly, reaching $63.5 million in the first half, up 12.4% from $56.5 million in last year’s first half, and accounting for 19.3% of sales vs. 16.9%. Catalog sales have been falling, however, down 45% in the first half to $29.7 million from $45 million. Combined online and catalog sales created a decline in sales in the direct division in the first half to 28.4% of J. Crew sales vs. 30.3% a year ago.
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