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DODGEVILLE, Wis., Feb. 2, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lands’ End, Inc. (Nasdaq:LE) today announced that its Board of Directors has named Federica Marchionni as Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Marchionni comes to Lands’ End from her role as President of Dolce&Gabbana USA Inc.  She will succeed Edgar Huber, who is resigning from the Company.

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Josephine Linden, Chairman of the Board of Lands’ End, said: “We are delighted that Federica Marchionni is joining Lands’ End. She is a multi-talented, visionary business leader with a complete set of creative, strategic and analytical skills to grow a multi-channel apparel brand in a highly competitive and evolving global environment. She has proven product development, retail and international experience, a tremendous passion for success, and a deep network of relationships across the fashion, consumer and retail landscapes. She also fully embraces the principles of quality, value and service on which Gary Comer founded Lands’ End in 1963. We are confident she will build upon the Company’s legacy as a classic American brand with a keen eye toward its future as a global lifestyle brand.”

Mrs. Linden continued: “On behalf of the entire Board and Lands’ End organization, we truly appreciate Edgar Huber’s steady leadership prior to and during the spin-off from Sears Holdings Corporation.  With annual sales in excess of $1.5 billion, roots more than 50 years deep and a great team behind it, Lands’ End is ready for a new leader to accelerate the realization of the full potential of the brand and drive profitable growth.”

Mr. Huber said: “With the successful completion of the spin-off of Lands’ End from Sears Holdings Corporation, I have accomplished what I came to achieve at Lands’ End and I look forward to the Company’s success in the future.”

Ms. Marchionni said: “I have long admired Lands’ End’s powerful platform and I am excited to lead this iconic company. I have great respect and appreciation for what the Lands’ End team has accomplished to date, and I look forward to leveraging Lands’ End’s strong foundation to expand the brand into new markets and channels over time while remaining true to the brand’s core values and customer base. I join the Lands’ End family with the clear goal of moving the Company forward by working with the Board to identify and pursue growth in key areas, collaborating with and inspiring our people to find new ways to delight customers, and delivering improved financial performance for our shareholders. I cannot wait to get started to take advantage of the significant opportunities ahead.”

Under Ms. Marchionni’s leadership as President starting in 2011, Dolce&Gabbana USA’s revenues increased significantly. She successfully elevated the positioning of the brand and redesigned strategies for expanding it across multiple channels, target customers and geographic areas. While growing the existing business, Ms. Marchionni oversaw the opening of several key stores – including the 5^th Avenue flagship store in New York City as well as stores in other markets including Toronto, Chicago, Aspen and Boston – and also strengthened the brand’s partnership with major U.S. department stores. Working closely with the product development teams, sell-through was also advanced in each category and channel, including online. Prior to that, over the course of a career as a global group director at Dolce&Gabbana that stretches back to 2001, she led business development for business units in more than 100 countries. Ms. Marchionni was also Senior Vice President at Ferrari where she acted as the chief executive of a division that generated an important portion of the company’s worldwide sales. Earlier in her career, Ms. Marchionni held positions of increasing responsibility in product marketing and sales at industry-leading consumer technology and telecommunications companies such as Samsung, Phillips, and Ericsson. She graduated summa cum laude from La Sapienza University of Rome with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration.

Ms. Marchionni will assume the CEO position at Lands’ End and join the Company’s Board of Directors on February 17, 2015, following the completion of her professional commitments to Dolce&Gabbana. Mr. Huber will remain as CEO to assist in the transition process until Ms. Marchionni joins the Company.

About Lands’ End, Inc.

Lands’ End, Inc. (Nasdaq:LE) is a leading multi-channel retailer of casual clothing, accessories, footwear and home products. We offer products through catalogs, online at www.landsend.com and affiliated specialty and international websites, and through retail locations, primarily at Lands’ End Shops at Sears® and standalone Lands’ End Inlet® Stores. We are a classic American lifestyle brand with a passion for quality, legendary service and real value, and seek to deliver timeless style for men, women, kids and the home.

MIAMI, FL–(Marketwired – February 02, 2015) – Emerging Markets Communications (EMC), a global satellite and terrestrial communications services provider, announced today it acquired General Industry Systems (GIS) AS, a Norwegian-based provider specializing in energy and maritime connectivity services for offshore operations. The consolidated portfolio of products, services, experience, locations and engineers of the companies strengthens EMC’s energy and maritime business segments.

EMC’s fully managed connectivity services, global infrastructure of field support centers, teleports and satellite capacity, combined with GIS’s on-site systems integration projects, completes its full-suite of communications solutions for the industry. The addition of GIS’s support centers and technical teams broadens EMC’s presence in strategic Energy hubs worldwide with locations in Stavanger and Oslo, Norway; Singapore Aberdeen, Scotland; Houston, Texas; Abu Dhabi, UAE; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, West Africa, and London, UK.

“GIS brings years of experience in delivering specialized communications solutions to the energy and maritime industries, which are valuable in continuing to grow our customer base in these markets,” said Jesus Barber, Vice President of Maritime, EMC. “Our combined customers represent many global energy and maritime companies that have relied on us to connect their offshore operations with the rest of the world, when it matters the most.”

Global Customer Base

The acquisition of GIS expands EMC’s customer base within the Oil & Gas and Maritime verticals and includes many of the largest global and local companies operating in The North Sea, The Baltic Sea, Offshore Brazil, Gulf of Mexico and Asia-Pacific regions such as Statoil, Seadrill, Transocean, Rowan Drilling, Diamond Offshore, CGG Veritas, DeepOcean Maritime, Weatherford and Maersk. EMC provides satellite connectivity and systems integrations services to support a variety of offshore assets including platform rigs, FPSOs, jack-ups, drilling ships, semi-submersibles and offshore support vessels.

Expanded Satellite Communications Services for Oil & Gas and Maritime

The combined portfolio of products and services includes fully managed satellite connectivity, global coverage in C and Ku-band, network design, shipping, logistics, bandwidth commission, installation, integration of complex communications systems and on-going support. These services are tailored for specific offshore and onshore operations, crew welfare networks and fleet broadband solutions.

GIS brings years of experience in systems integration of offshore communications systems for:

• VSAT (WavelinkT)
• Telephony Systems (PABX)
• CCTV
• TVRO
• Entertainment (Digital and IP)
• Offloading
• GMDSS
• Hospital Intercoms
• Driller Talk Backs
• RFID Equipment for Maintenance
• Electronic Muster (Tag)
• Oil Spill Detection
• Multi-Purpose Touch Panel Integration
• Drill Support
• PA/GA Systems
• VHF Radio for Ship and Helicopter
• Digital and Analog Radio
• Navigation
• Man Overboard
• Access Control
• Metrological
• Subsea Cameras

All systems integrations projects are executed under regional and industry standards and certifications including DNV, ABS, SOLAS, MODU, NORSOK, PEFER, Anatel, Optio, BOSIET and others.

The expanded customer base will have access to EMC’s global infrastructure for satellite connectivity services including 48 field support locations, 200 engineers, in-country spare parts, satellite capacity and teleport facilities.

About GIS

Founded in 1999, General Industry Systems (GIS) realized the demand for professional telecom and maritime electronic solutions for the maritime and energy industries. Today GIS operates globally on oil and gas platforms, rigs and vessels, FPSO’s, fishing, yachts and cruise ships. The company is committed to being a single source for delivering IT and communications systems for turn-key projects, including: project management and planning, procurement, engineering, testing, installation, operations and value engineering.

About Emerging Markets Communications

Emerging Markets Communications® is a global satellite and terrestrial communications company specializing in delivering mission-critical, network services for the global energy industry, maritime, mobile network operators, carriers, governments, NGOs and worldwide enterprises with locations in the most remote and/or challenging areas of the world. As a proven industry leader, Emerging Markets Communications® enables customers the agility, scalability and efficiency designed to facilitate growth for their global operations.

The company operates in 150 countries, with 48 global field support centers and infrastructure of teleports and terrestrial pops in the US, Europe and Africa. Emerging Markets Communications® is financially backed by ABRY Partners; a firm specialized in funding the communications industry with $36 billion of completed transactions.

“BWise advised us to start on a GRC journey by articulating a vision, starting with a tactical approach that helps to quickly gain benefits in optimizing our risk management processes,” said Pedro Sousa, Director Internal Audit, grupo Portucel Soporcel. “After delivering our first few successes in our GRC development, we will then further execute on our plan to lower the cost of compliance, while enhancing the overall visibility of opportunities and potential risks that our company faces.”

Through its Rapid Deployment Approach (RDS), the BWise® GRC Platform will help grupo Portucel Soporcel streamline its group risk management processes, ranging from: initial risk identification, assessment and evaluation, risk mitigation and monitoring, tracking and managing incidents and providing configurable reporting. The new GRC solution will also allow grupo Portucel Soporcel to seamlessly monitor their key organizational risks at all levels.

“We are excited to welcome grupo Portucel Soporcel as one of our customers in the Portuguese manufacturing industry,” said Rob van Straten, Global Head of Sales and Delivery, BWise. “Many large operating manufacturers deploy BWise for their GRC initiatives around the world and this is another achievement that proves the strength of the BWise® Integrated GRC Platform.”

BWise is a Nasdaq fully-owned company and positioned by independent analysts such as Forrester, Gartner and Chartis as a leader in enterprise GRC platforms.About grupo Portucel Soporcel

Grupo Portucel Soporcel is Portugal’s second leading exporter, and the exporter generating the highest level of national value added. The Group accounts for approximately 1% of Portugal’s GDP, around 3% of the country’s total exports of goods, close to 8% of all containerized cargo, and 7% of all containerized and conventional cargo exported through Portuguese ports.

In 2013, grupo Portucel Soporcel achieved new records for paper sales and output, consolidating its position as Europe’s leading manufacturer of uncoated woodfree (UWF) printing and writing paper. The Group exported products worth €1 215 million and its turnover rose to € 1 530.6 million. The leading European manufacturer, and the sixth largest in the world, of uncoated woodfree (UWF) printing and writing paper, the Group is also Europe’s top producer of BEKP (Bleached Eucalyptus Kraft Pulp), and the fifth largest in the world.

The Group has successfully pursued a strategy of innovation and development of its own brands, which today account for 62% of sales of manufactured products. Special mention should be made of the Navigator brand, the world’s best-selling product in the premium office paper segment. The Group’s sales are made to 127 countries over five continents, with Europe and the United States as the two main destinations.

As a vertically integrated forestry group with its own forestry research institute, it leads the world in the genetic improvement of the Eucalyptus globulus. It manages vast tracts of forest in Portugal certified under the FSC® and PEFC(TM) systems (FSC license C010852 and PEFC license 13-23-001), and boasts annual production capacity for 1.6 million tons of paper, 1.4 million tons of pulp (of which 1.1 million is integrated into paper), and power generation of 2.5 TWh, adding up to annual turnover of approximately 1.5 billion euros.

The Group operates one of Europe’s largest nurseries for forestry plants, with annual production capacity of approximately 12 million certified plants of various species, destined for use in renewing Portugal’s woodlands.

In keeping with its strategy of international expansion, the Group is currently investing in a major vertically integrated forestry project in Mozambique set to culminate in the construction of a cellulose pulp mill, a capital project worth 2.3 billion dollars, as well as a pellets factory in the USA.

To learn more, visit www.portucelsoporcel.com.

About BWise

BWise, a Nasdaq company, is a global leader in Enterprise Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) software. Based on a strong heritage in business process management, the BWise^® GRC Platform provides companies with highly-rated, proven software solutions for Risk Management, Internal Control, Internal Audit, Compliance and Policy Management, IT GRC and Sustainability Performance Management.

BWise’s end-to-end solutions support an organization’s ability to understand, track, measure, and manage key organizational risks. BWise helps companies truly be in control by balancing performance with their financial and reputational risks, improving corporate accountability, increasing financial, strategic and operating efficiencies. Using BWise, organizations are able to efficiently comply with anti-corruption regulations like FCPA and the UK Bribery Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, European Corporate Governance Codes, ISAE3402/SAS-70, PCI-DSS, Solvency II, Basel II and III, Dodd-Frank, ISO-standards, and many more.

BWise sales, service and support offices around the globe provide for the GRC needs of hundreds of leading companies worldwide.  For more information, visitwww.bwise.com.

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