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苹果Tim Cook聘请了burberry的总裁担任策略、发展和运营零售和网上商店。
Burberry曾经因为过分依赖它的经典格子图案而被有钱人放弃。Angela Ahrendts 出任总裁以后重新打造这个英国奢侈品品牌。她大力推动网店，在中国和拉丁美洲发展市场。
现在苹果希望她能够为世界上最值钱的科技公司做到同样的效果。
其中一个重要的目的是增加 iPad 和 iPhone 在中国的销量，目前中国是苹果的第二大市场。
四年没有新产品的苹果已经堕落到需要像时尚界那样来做销售了吗？
https://www.businessspectator.co ... -big-burberry-chief
Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts rebuilt the British luxury brand after excessive exposure of its trademark checkered pattern alienated wealthy clientele. Her approach was to embrace digital innovation, build a strong online business, and tap Chinese and Latin American markets.
Now Apple Inc is hoping she can do the same at the world's most valuable technology company.
In hiring Ahrendts to direct strategy, expansion and operation of Apple's retail and online stores, chief executive Tim Cook has set her the task of bolstering iPad and iPhone sales, and returning some lustre to a brand that has not launched a major new device in almost four years.
One of her main challenges will be to boost Apple's sales in China, its second-largest market. Here, analysts say, Ahrendts will be able to draw on her Burberry experience of introducing less expensive goods without damaging the value of the brand.
"The point of Apple retail is to sell Apple, not to sell Apple products," said Benedict Evans, who covers mobile and digital media at Enders Analysis, a research consultancy.
"What they've got is somebody who can take 400 stores with really great premium positioning and turn that into 800 stores and do that in China, and do that in India and do that in Europe and in Russia and in South America and everywhere else which at the moment they don't really have."
Ahrendts is the first woman to join Apple's executive team in nearly a decade and will take on an expanded role, overseeing its 363 stores and online teams. Apple has not disclosed how much she will be paid.
The head of the 157-year-old Burberry Group Plc was Britain's highest-paid CEO in the 2011-2012 financial year, taking home 15.6 million pounds ($US25 million) thanks in part to a large number of shares awards. She took home 6.8 million pounds in the 2012/13 fiscal year.
At Burberry she launched a website dedicated to the firm's traditional trench coats and introduced webcast catwalks, using the new iPhone 5S to shoot the spring/summer 2014 show. Ahrendts also collaborated with Google Inc for a brand campaign named Burberry Kisses.
But jumping to Apple - whose $US157 billion net sales are nearly 50 times those of Burberry - is a challenge of a different proportion for Ahrendts. The pressure is made all the more intense by Cook's previous stumble hiring a retail head from the British market.
John Browett, CEO of British consumer electronics retailer Dixons, was Cook's first major hire after he took over from Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011. But Browett left after just six months, and later said he had not fitted in with the business culture at Cupertino, California-based Apple.
Expansion, culture fit key
Apple is an engineering and design-heavy company where executives such as design head Jony Ive exert enormous influence over strategy and products. Successful executives from other companies have found it tough in the past to fit in a secretive culture that encourages competition between internal groups.
Unlike at Burberry, Ahrendts will have to work with a smaller and more rigid gadget portfolio, where every incremental change is agonised over. It is unclear if she will have any say over the product landscape.
Cook, in an email to employees on Tuesday announcing the appointment, described Ahrendts as "wicked smart." He said he knew he wanted to hire the 53-year-old executive from Indiana after first meeting with her in January.
"We've gotten to know each other over the past several months and I've left each conversation even more impressed," he wrote in the email seen by Reuters. "She led Burberry through a period of phenomenal growth with a focus on brand, culture, core values and the power of positive energy."
Apple's profit fell 22 per cent in the June quarter as gross margins slid below 37 per cent from 42 per cent a year earlier and its shares, down more than 30 per cent since September 2012, are being pummelled by fears of slowing growth, and competition from Samsung Electronics.
Apple's retail growth in China has been slow and the demand for its products has spawned a bustling grey market. In 2010, Apple's then-retail chief Ron Johnson forecast the company would have 25 stores in China by 2012. It now has 8 stores, despite Cook's assertion that China is crucial to growth. By comparison, Apple has 37 stores in Britain.
The company introduced a cheaper plastic iPhone last month to help make up ground in emerging markets to rivals like Samsung Electronics and Huawei Technologies. Analysts said the phone - still more expensive than many of its rivals' models - was not cheap enough.
"The trick is to allow people to buy into the product and make it as mass market as possible, because you want the volume and the sales, but you don't want that to come at the expense of the cachet of the brand," said Neil Saunders, managing director of retail consultancy Conlumino.
Ahrendts is no stranger to Silicon Valley. She is a frequent guest at Salesforce.com Inc's annual "Dreamforce" conference, and has in the past turned to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to consult on Burberry's digital strategy. |
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