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Movers and Groovers : SuperGroup’s chief operating officer Susanne Given has left the fashion chain just months after chief executive Euan Sutherland took the helm.

Trouble at the top: SuperGroup’s chief operating officer Susanne Given has left the fashion chain just months after chief executive Euan Sutherland took the helm

Trouble at the top: SuperGroup’s chief operating officer Susanne Given has left the fashion chain just months after chief executive Euan Sutherland took the helm

SuperGroup, which owns the Superdry high-street chain, said Given’s responsibilities will be ‘absorbed by the executive team’.

Given, inset, who previously ran TK Maxx in the UK, took on the job in 2012 to assume some of then chief executive and founder Julian Dunkerton’s responsibilities.

But former Kingfisher and Co-op director Sutherland, above, arrived as boss last year and veteran retail analyst Nick Bubb said: ‘It looks as if she has fallen victim to internal politics, in the wake of Sutherland’s arrival.’

Chairman Peter Bamford said: ‘Susanne played a crucial role in leading key investment programmes which have upgraded the infrastructure and were recently tested to the full over the peak Christmas trading period. We wish her every success in her future career.’

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