Katharina Schlager Withdraws from Her Active Position at ANDY WOLF EYEWEAR

Thursday, November 22 2018 | 11 h 21 min | News

Katharina Schlager, founding member and shareholder, most recently Creative Director and CEO of the Austrian eyewear company ANDY WOLF EYEWEAR, is withdrawing from the operative business at her own request, but remains a shareholder.

Together with Andreas Pirkheim and Wolfgang Scheucher, Katharina Schlager founded ANDY WOLF EYEWEAR in 2006 and was most recently the Creative Director and CEO. ANDY WOLF EYEWEAR is based in Hartberg, Austria and available in 69 countries at selected specialist opticians and fashion stores. Alongside the headquarters in Hartberg with neighbouring factory, a further factory in Jura in France was acquired in 2016. The subsidiary ANDY WOLF, North America was founded with its headquarters in New York in the same year. A creative office was opened in Berlin in 2017 and the expansion of the headquarters in Hartberg was completed in 2018.

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