News Briefs – Page 497
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Invista has announced that it is exploring alternatives for its...
Invista has announced that it is exploring alternatives for its Apparel & Advanced Textiles business. The company might either sell it or retain it and further invest in the business from within. Goldman Sachs is assisting the company in exploring strategic alternatives. Details about the exploration process are not being ...
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Bruno Sälzer has been elected chairman of the Amer Sports...
Bruno Sälzer has been elected chairman of the Amer Sports group's board of directors, as part of a new board of seven. Sälzer previously worked as chief executive for many years at Hugo Boss and Escada, and currently at Bench. He is also a supervisory board member at Lacoste Holding ...
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Polygiene has appointed Haymo Strubel, who previously worked for YKK...
Polygiene has appointed Haymo Strubel, who previously worked for YKK and Sympatex Technologies, as director of commercial operations for Europe. The company has also appointed a new technical director for textile applications, Paul Middleton, who comes from Courtaulds. Polygiene has announced a collaboration with 2XU for use of its odor-control ...
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Nicolas Buisson has taken the place of Pierre Compte as...
Nicolas Buisson has taken the place of Pierre Compte as French country manager for K2. He will continue to take care of Zoot, which belongs to the same group, for all of Europe. Compte is now working for Mountain Hardwear in France and other countries.
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Pearl Izumi has hired Chris Sword as its new president....
Pearl Izumi has hired Chris Sword as its new president. He replaces Mike O'Connor, who retired in December. A veteran of the outdoor industry, Sword served as president of The Oberalp Group for the past nine years. Oberalp is the owner of Salewa, Dynafit and other brands. Prior to Oberalp, ...
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An industry veteran with experience in product creation and global...
An industry veteran with experience in product creation and global operations, Joe Vernachio, will have the task of finding a new strategy to revamp Mountain Hardwear, the struggling brand of Columbia Sportswear. He has been hired to be the next president of the brand, starting on April 3. He will ...
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Munich, the Spanish brand of sneakers and futsal boots, has...
Munich, the Spanish brand of sneakers and futsal boots, has appointed Pepe Espino as sport category manager. He worked in the last three years in sales for the K-Swiss Group. Prior to that, he spent time with Nike, Decathlon, Diesel and Sole Technology.
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Sandy Nicholls has retired as marketing manager of Gita Sporting...
Sandy Nicholls has retired as marketing manager of Gita Sporting Goods, the U.S. company that markets many bike brands in the country including Pinarello and Campagnolo and its own Giordana brand of cycling apparel. Nicholls was the first employee of Gita when it was set up by Giorgio Andretta in ...
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Andrew Rees, who became president of Crocs two years ago,...
Andrew Rees, who became president of Crocs two years ago, will replace Gregg Ribatt as chief executive on June 1, consolidating the two functions. Ribatt, who will remain on the board of directors, said the company was ready for the change after the progress it had made in 2016 in ...
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A 20-year veteran of General Motors, Caly Dean, has joined...
A 20-year veteran of General Motors, Caly Dean, has joined Under Armour in the new position of chief innovation officer, reporting to Kevin Haley, president of category management and innovation at UA. Dean was most recently the head of GM's global advanced design organization. He has been a chief design ...
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After working in executive positions at Ortlieb for the past...
After working in executive positions at Ortlieb for the past 25 years, Wolfgang Paulus will leave the German company, which specializes in the supply of bicycle panniers and backpacks, at the end of June. The 60-year-old manager worked as sales and marketing director before he shared the management of Ortlieb ...
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Icebreaker has a new European head of wholesale, Udo Heyder....
Icebreaker has a new European head of wholesale, Udo Heyder. He comes from VF Corporation , where he spent nine years as area manager of The North Face for Germany and Central Europe and then three years as international sales manager for Smartwool. Based at Icebreaker's European office in Munich, ...
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Snow Factory will distribute the Sport, Swimwear and Snow apparel...
Snow Factory will distribute the Sport, Swimwear and Snow apparel lines of Superdry in the sports retail channels of the Iberian Peninsula. The project will be led by Fernando Rivero, a 41-year-old veteran of Nike who has also worked in several roles for the sports apparel line of Desigual. Snow ...
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Hej International, owner of the Kozi Kidz brand of children's...
Hej International, owner of the Kozi Kidz brand of children's rainwear and distributor of the Wigwam brand in the U.K. aims to set up a logistic warehouse in Rotterdam next year for sales on the European continent. In the next three months, Hej International will start to sell the Wigwam ...
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New Era has announced an exclusive partnership with Jabong, India's...
New Era has announced an exclusive partnership with Jabong, India's multibrand fashion e-store. Through this new partnership, New Era is launching its products in India for the first time. Prior to New Era, Jabong has already introduced various international sports brands into India such as Asics, Hummel and DC, among ...
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Mammut Sports Group has opened an office with eight employees...
Mammut Sports Group has opened an office with eight employees in Hong Kong to support its business in Asian countries and to develop more regional product and marketing strategies. The move was outlined at Ispo Munich by Oliver Pabst, who took over from Rolf Schmid as Mammut's chief executive in ...
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We understand that Blue Tomato, the Austrian-based online and offline...
We understand that Blue Tomato, the Austrian-based online and offline action sports retailer that has been spreading into Germany, as looking at a potential entry into two other European countries. Meanwhile, its American parent company, Zumiez, intends to open four more physical Blue Tomato stores in Europe this year, along ...
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MySale Group, an international flash sale business in which Sports...
MySale Group, an international flash sale business in which Sports Direct International (SDI) holds a minority stake, said that its strategic partnership with the British retailer and wholesaler has become operational. As previously announced, the partnership gives MySale access to more than 150,000 SKUs of Sports Direct's inventory. Due to ...
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Salomon has opened a new brand store of 250 square...
Salomon has opened a new brand store of 250 square meters in the French winter resort of Chamonix, based on a new design developed by Retail 3d. It has already been applied to a Salomon store in Whistler, Canada, one in Serravalle, Italy, and two others in Shanghai. The same ...
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Sports Direct International (SDI) continues to believe that the devaluation...
Sports Direct International (SDI) continues to believe that the devaluation of the euro against the dollar will impact its gross margin, the British sports retailer said in a statement last week, in response to queries about currency hedging. The group said its euro to dollar exchange rate is hedged at ...
