Article: Stride Rite Chairman Resigns over Differences with Board.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 9 -- After barely seven months on the job, Stride Rite Corp.'s chairman and chief executive, James A. Eskridge, abruptly resigned yesterday following an apparent clash over strategy with the Lexington-based footwear company's board of directors.

Myles J. Slosberg, 62, the grandson of the man who in 1919 founded the company that would later be known for Keds, has been named interim chairman and chief executive.

Slosberg said he would lead a search team that will seek a permanent successor to Eskridge, a former executive at Mattel Inc. and General Mills Inc. who moved from California to assume the top job ...

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