Dive Temporary:
- Sean Wrenn has been named vice president of retail gross sales and operations for DTC clothes model Indochino. He reports to Morgan Whitney, chief working officer at Indochino, the corporate stated in an e mail.
- Wrenn joins the attire model from Kendra Scott the place he spent six years, most lately as vice chairman of direct retail, per his LinkedIn profile. He additionally holds expertise from Aéropostale and Abercrombie & Fitch.
- In his new function, Wrenn will focus on scaling retail operations, enhancing the omnichannel buyer expertise and driving profitability, per the corporate.
Dive Perception:
Indochino tapped Wrenn to steer its retail gross sales and operations at a time of growth for the corporate.
Based in 2007 as an e-commerce males’s suiting model, the corporate has been on a spree of opening showroom shops throughout North America. The model now has 92 areas, together with these inside Nordstrom malls, after asserting plans to open 5 shops over the summer season.
“We’re excited to proceed our plans to develop the retail footprint with some further retailers and showrooms to return within the subsequent few months,” an organization spokesperson stated in an e mail.
Sean Wrenn
Picture courtesy of Indochino
Wrenn’s DTC expertise made him a great candidate for the place, in keeping with Drew Inexperienced, president and CEO of Indochino.
“We requested Sean to hitch us not solely due to his intensive retailer expertise for highly effective retail manufacturers, but additionally as a result of he is one of many few retailer leaders who’s mastered the direct-to-consumer aspect of the enterprise,” Inexperienced stated in an announcement. “With Sean heading retail, we’ll be capable of converse to our clients with ‘one voice’, a feat seldom achieved in brick-and-mortar retail.”
Wrenn is succeeding Dean Handspiker, who left the corporate after near 10 years with the model, in keeping with his LinkedIn profile.
The made-to-measure model has additionally expanded its product assortment, together with by means of the introduction of a males’s ready-to-wear knitwear line in 2021, and its first ready-to-wear go well with assortment final spring. It entered the girls’s suiting enterprise in 2023 after testing the waters in eight of its showrooms in 2022.
The privately held model has grown considerably prior to now few years, recording robust gross sales in each 2022 and Q1 of 2023.
