News Briefs – Page 614
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Don Blair, the longest-serving senior executive still working at Nike,...
Don Blair, the longest-serving senior executive still working at Nike, will retire from his position of executive vice president and chief financial officer on Oct. 31, after a transition period. Andrew Campion, who joined the group from PepsiCo in 2007, will take over his position from Aug. 1. Campion worked ...
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Brad Stewart has left Amer Sports, where he was in...
Brad Stewart has left Amer Sports, where he was in charge of global digital marketing lately. A spokesperson says he is not going to be replaced directly, as his functions will be taken over by the department of Victor Duran, senior vice president of marketing and B2C. He founded Bonfire ...
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Massimo Mazza recently joined Le Coq Sportif as Italian country...
Massimo Mazza recently joined Le Coq Sportif as Italian country manager, replacing Giorgio Trevisan who has moved to Superdry. Mazza had been acting as Italian country manager for Quiksilver and Roxy since 2011. He was previously involved in marketing at Eastpak and Nike in Italy. In 2007, he co-founded a ...
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Pamela Schröder, 35, has been promoted to the position of...
Pamela Schröder, 35, has been promoted to the position of marketing manager at Chiemsee, the German boardsports brand owned by the Schmidt Group. She is replacing Tobias Blick, who will leave the group at the end of March.
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Uhlsport has announced that Melanie Steinhilber has been promoted to...
Uhlsport has announced that Melanie Steinhilber has been promoted to executive director for marketing/sponsorship and product management, effective March 1. She will become part of a management team of three, together with Dominik Solleder, in charge of national/international sales, and Peter Kuhl, manager for finance, purchasing, product development and logistics. ...
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Accell Group has announced that it intends to appoint Jeroen...
Accell Group has announced that it intends to appoint Jeroen Both to the board of directors as chief supply chain officer. He will be responsible for the continued integration and optimization of the supply chain. The supervisory board plans to formalize his appointment after the general meeting of shareholders of ...
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Zebco Europe has hired Dirk Dehnhardt from Dam as export...
Zebco Europe has hired Dirk Dehnhardt from Dam as export director and acting sales director. The German-based company has also appointed Pär Lindberg to the vacant role of sales director for Scandinavia. He will be responsbile for the creation of a new structure of sales agents in Sweden, Norway, Denmark ...
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Crocs has realigned regional management functions, reducing the geographical structures...
Crocs has realigned regional management functions, reducing the geographical structures from four to three, including one for the European Union and another for the Americas. In this context, David Thomson, who has been most recently executive vice president of Tommy Hilfiger for Asia-Pacific, has been named by Crocs to a ...
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Mark S. Hoplamazian, a director and former president and CEO...
Mark S. Hoplamazian, a director and former president and CEO of Hyatt Hotels Corp., has joined the board of directors of VF Corp., which has been expanded to 13 members. Two director, Ursula O. Fairbarn and George Fellows, will not stand for re-election because of a minimum retirement age of ...
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Arc'teryx has named Stéphane Tenailleau to the newly-created role of...
Arc'teryx has named Stéphane Tenailleau to the newly-created role of senior manager, EMEA consumer and channel marketing. Tenailleau, 42, will be leading an eight-member team based in Garching, north of Munich. The French national has a strong background across the fashion, sport and apparel industries. Most recently, he worked on ...
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Nike is reportedly planning to open its first European women's...
Nike is reportedly planning to open its first European women's store on King's Road, in the Chelsea district of London, by May. A Nike spokesman would not comment on the report. The Swoosh already opened two women's stand-alone stores late last year, one in Newport Beach, California, and the other ...
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Courir, the athletic footwear chain of the Go Sport Group,...
Courir, the athletic footwear chain of the Go Sport Group, plans to open its first women-only store on Feb. 28. Called CLa Boutique and located at 110, rue de Rennes in Paris, it will the biggest store in France for women's sneakers and sports shoes, offering 300 different models, says ...
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Courir will boost its network of 160 stores with the...
Courir will boost its network of 160 stores with the acquisition of 18 of the 136 French Bata stores that have been auctioned by a French court following the insolvency of Bata France. The court accepted the offer made by François Le Ménahèze, who acted as chief executive of Bata ...
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Asics started sales of its products in India from the...
Asics started sales of its products in India from the beginning of this year, through a subsidiary it opened in April 2012 to provide marketing support to its distributor, the Reliance Retail, which sold Asics through its Footprint stores and at wholesale. Rajat Khurana, director of Asics India, told Indian ...
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Erima, the German brand of team sports, tennis and running...
Erima, the German brand of team sports, tennis and running gear, has revamped its German website entirely. A new feature is the company's corporate online store. In an effort to appease its retail customers, Erima said that the existing team sports retailers remain the most important distribution channel, but the ...
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Röjk, a small Swedish outdoor and lifestyle brand, plans to...
Röjk, a small Swedish outdoor and lifestyle brand, plans to open a pop-up store in the French ski resort town of Val d'Isère. The company, founded only four years ago, managed to find a small retail space in a popular location, right on the town square. It will open for ...
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Sport Partner reports that Regatta is closing its subsidiary in...
Sport Partner reports that Regatta is closing its subsidiary in the Netherlands and that distribution of the Regatta and Dare2B brands is to be handled from the start of May by Corvus Sports. This is a new agency formed by Erik Kray, who has been the Dutch country manager for ...
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Wigwam, the U.S. specialty socks brand, has appointed a distributor...
Wigwam, the U.S. specialty socks brand, has appointed a distributor for the Polish market, Portal Gorski, which also distributes the British brands Rab and Kozi Kidz, the marketer of specialty outdoor and snow apparel for children. Wigwam has been distributed in Europe, since last year, by Hej International, a U.K.-based ...
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Millet will inaugurate a new store concept in the French...
Millet will inaugurate a new store concept in the French resort of Chamonix on Feb. 27. It will be deployed in the course of this year at shop-in-shops all over Europe, notably at Alpisport in Namur, Belgium; at El Corte Inglés in Barcelona; at Alpi Trail in Puidoux, Switzerland; and ...
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Fila Korea raised its revenues by 8.3 percent to 797,380...
Fila Korea raised its revenues by 8.3 percent to 797,380 million won (€636.0m-$722.7m) last year, but its net income declined by 37 percent to KRW 60,696 million (€48.4m-$55.0m). The operating profit slipped by 4.6 percent to KRW 93,588 million (€74.7m-$84.8m), but pre-tax income went up by 2.4 percent to KRW ...
