Luxury brand Chanel chooses Unilever's Nair as CEO

The luxury manner location Chanel has chosen Leena Nair, an manufacture outsider from India and longtime enforcement astatine Unilever, to beryllium its caller CEO.

Nair said successful a Twitter station that she was “humbled and honored to beryllium appointed the Global Chief Executive Officer of @CHANEL, an iconic and admired company.”

The quality made a immense splash successful India, Nair’s birthplace connected Wednesday, wherever she received scores of congratulations and compliments to her announcement, 1 calling her a “serial glass-ceiling breaker.”

While Nair, 52, is not a portion of the Paris manner scene, Chanel has a wide scope of products successful summation to its manner designs.

Nair, who was heading Unilever's quality resources, is owed to measurement into her caller relation successful January. Her assignment is seen backmost location arsenic a motion of the rising stature of Indian concern leaders, particularly women.

In her societal media posts, Nair has described India-born erstwhile PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi arsenic a person and mentor.

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British user goods elephantine Unilever describes Nair arsenic its archetypal woman, archetypal Asian and youngest ever main quality resources officer. She joined Unilever successful 1992 successful India and precocious up the ranks.

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