Strang joined the homewares retailer from Bhs in 2001 and was The Pier’s first board-level marketer. She has left without a job to go to.
Acting managing director and buying and merchandising director Silvia Hernandez said that it was Strang’s decision to go. “She was absolutely essential and fantastic in terms of what she did with marketing,” she said.
The retailer will begin looking for a replacement immediately.
The Pier’s homewares focus puts it in the toughest part of the retail market, where MFI, Rosebys and ProCook have gone into administration.
However, Hernandez said that in the past week trading has been going “fantastically well” at The Pier. “It’s just astounding,” she said.
Earlier this year, managing director John Higgins left the company following a shake-up by its Icelandic parent Lagerinn, set up by Danish tycoon Jakup Jacobsen. The retailer is still looking for a replacement.
The Pier opened a new-look store at Victoria Square in Belfast in March. The format is an amalgamation of designs tested at two other stores and will be rolled out to all new shops in future.
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