Updated at 5:39 p.m. ET on July 30

VF Corp. chief executive officer Bracken Darrell is not yet ready to declare victory and say the active giant has turned around.

But there is a sense, two years into his tenure, that Darrell and the company — parent to Vans , The North Face and Timberland — is ready to get back to the fun part of growing the business after a long painful retrenchment.

“This is what it’s all about,” Darrell told WWD in an interview. “This is what I came for, the next act is what I’m here for. The first act has been what was required to get there.”

A whirlwind of change hit VF during that first act. Darrell swapped out most of the company’s management, putting Sun Choe in charge of Vans , Caroline Brown in the lead at The North Face along with many other chang

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