New director elected at American Eagle Outfitters

26/01/2007
 
Outerwear, footwear and swimwear retailer American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. has appointed Alan Kane to its board of directors. Mr Kane currently serves as dean of the School of Business and Technology at the Fashion Institute of Technology, a role he has held since 2005.

From 1997 to 2006, he was a professor of Retailing at the Columbia Graduate School of Business and prior to this he spent 28 years in the retail industry with companies such as Federated Department Stores, The May Company, and Grossman’s Inc.