Head of sustainability leaves Zalando

Kate Heiny is leaving the company at the end of the month and the position will be filled internally on an interim basis.

Head of Sustainability Kate Heiny will be leaving the fashion company Zalando at the end of October. This was reported by the Handelsblatt. She is not the first manager to leave the DAX-listed company in recent months. In July, for example, Florian Jodl, who worked at Zalando for ten years and was most recently General Manager of the DACH region, left.

There are many reasons for this restructuring. Since the beginning of the year, the share has lost two thirds of its value. Sales are also falling. While the company still benefited greatly from the lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, it was four percent lower in the second quarter of 2022 than in the previous year.

Kate Heiny's sustainability strategy, which was launched in 2019, has recently shown some success. For example, Zalando published its first Corporate Digital Responsibility Report in cooperation with the German government. The packaging now consists almost exclusively of recycled and recyclable material. Heiny is now leaving the company, which was founded in 2008, after around three years. The search for a successor is underway.