PVH Corp. has promoted Donald Kohler to chief executive officer of its Americas division.
Kohler joined the company in early 2023 as president of Calvin Klein in the Americas and will now also be overseeing Tommy Hilfiger business in the region.
He continues to report to PVH CEO Stefan Larsson, who has been steadily reordering the business.
“I have the same structure now with three regional CEOs — in Europe, North America and Asia — working with our two global brand leaders and our functional group leaders,” Larsson told WWD. “It’s a simple, effective structure that works.”
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Larsson is trying to set up PVH so Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein can move fast and be agile while benefiting from the scale of the overall company.
Kohler — who previously held high-level jobs at Ferragamo, Burberry and elsewhere — has already had an impact, according to Larsson.
“He built his transformational experience through being a key leader on [former Burberry CEO] Angela Ahrendts’ team, where they transformed Burberry,” Larsson said. “He has fantastic and very relevant experience and has been able to translate that into unlocking Calvin in North America. Now he will do it for both brands.”
The Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger businesses combined saw an adjusted EBIT margin of 13 percent in the third quarter, the company’s fifth consecutive quarter of a double-digit EBIT margins in the region.
Kohler said, “We are building strong execution momentum across North America, and I look forward to working closely with our very strong teams and partners in the region.”
He steps in just as PVH readies for more change.
The company is in the process of taking back its North American women’s wholesale licenses from G-III Apparel Group, putting it in a position to make its own looks for department stores in the region.