Mirko Ostendörfer has been the managing director of Urban Styles Agency GmbH & Co. KG since August 1, which appears under the brand name Urbn Concepts. In addition to his previous task as CEO of the Buffalo Boots GmbH, for which he has been working since 2017.
At the same time, Buffalo’s distribution has passed to Urbn Concepts. The group would like to restructure its trademark portfolio via Urbn Concepts, a subsidiary of Snipes SE belonging to Deichmann. Ostendörfer has developed the concept itself over the past two years and told Schuhkurier: “We have led the very successful brand Karl Kani through snipes, which was always considered from a retail point of view. We also have a strong sales, sourcing and marketing network with buffalo boots and urbn concepts. We want to bring this together and build a wholesale machine from it.”
Urbn Concepts takes over the distribution of footwear and Apparel brands such as Buffalo, Esprit and Karl Kani’s own or license brands and is a distributor for other brands such as Havaianas. In the long term, Urbn Concepts wants to expand the portfolio as an agency with further brands in the fashion and sportswear area, including specialist trading stamps. “I look forward to the future of fashion, the strategic development of our brand portfolio and the opportunity to build and expand international partnerships together with our extraordinary team,” announced Ostendörfer in a post in his LinkedIn profile.
Before his time as a COO and CEO at Buffalo Boots, Ostendörfer worked at Von Dutch and Fitflop.
