BUSINESS BRIEFING / MEDIA
Times Wire Reports
Playboy Enterprises Inc. said it had hired Freedom Communications Inc. Chief Executive Scott N. Flanders to lead the company.
Flanders’ selection as CEO ends a five-month search for a new leader at the struggling Chicago company after Christie Hefner, daughter of founder Hugh Hefner, resigned in January. Jerome Kern has been serving as interim CEO.
Flanders, 52, helped expand online revenue and streamline operations at Freedom, owner of the Orange County Register.
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