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Ex-Asos Chief Nick Beighton to Lead MatchesFashion, Replacing Paolo De Cesare

Beighton is the fourth CEO to run the luxury e-tailer in less than five years as its private equity owners struggle to improve performance.
Matchesfashion's online home page, featuring one male model and one female model to designate the respective departments.
Matchesfashion has had four CEOs in the past five years. (Matchesfashion.com)

Less than a year into his tenure, Matchesfashion chief Paolo De Cesare will leave the top post, making way for Nick Beighton, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Case Study | The Next Wave of Luxury E-Commerce

Online luxury retail is now 20 years old. But after two decades of innovation, once-groundbreaking multi-brand giants face significant changes in consumer behaviour — and a growing, diverse stable of competitors — just as the coronavirus epidemic turns the world upside down. What happens now?

Matchesfashion Doubles Down on Emerging Labels

The retailer, facing growing pains of its own, is launching a new 'Innovators Programme' to bolster the fledgling labels that help set it apart from competitors in a crowded luxury e-commerce market.

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Cathaleen Chen
Cathaleen Chen

Cathaleen Chen is Retail Editor at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and drives BoF’s coverage of the retail and direct-to-consumer sectors.

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