Tailored Brands, the revamping men's apparel retailer behind Jos. A Bank and Men's Wearhouse, has brought in corporate communications and investor relations veteran Julie MacMedan as VP of IR.
Publicly traded TB is based in Fremont, Calif., is in midst of a "transition plan" that involves closing about 250 stores in the current fiscal year. Net sales for the second quarter dipped 1.1% to $909.7M.
MacMedan recently served as senior VP for Financial Profiles. She earlier was VP of IR for Demand Media and VP of IR and corporate communications for THQ. She also did a stint as VP at Pondel|Wilkinson after in-house analyst and market services posts with the Nasdaq stock market.
TB executive VP and CFO Jon Kimmins said in a statement that MacMedan will lead a "proactive and transparent investor relations program" for the company.

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