That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 103
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Foot Locker's board of directors has elected its lead director,...
Foot Locker's board of directors has elected its lead director, Nicholas DiPaolo, to the position of chairman. He succeeds the retiring Ken C. Hicks. DiPaolo, who is 73 years old, has been on Foot Locker's board since 2002. He left as a director of R.G. Barry Corporation last September.
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Leif Holst-Liæker will take over as chief executive of Bergans...
Leif Holst-Liæker will take over as chief executive of Bergans Fritid, the supplier of outdoor products known also as Bergans of Norway, during the fourth quarter of 2015. Holst-Liæker, 36, worked for five years at McKinsey & Company and then for eight years in various functions at Bertel O. Steen, ...
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Wintersteiger says that Markus Würcher has been appointed head of...
Wintersteiger says that Markus Würcher has been appointed head of sales and product management for its Sports Business Unit and for two others within the group, Seedmech and Woodtech, implementing the decisions mentioned in our last issue. Wolfgang Berghammer, former head of Wintersteiger's Sports BU, left the company in March ...
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Viking Footwear has appointed a new country manager for Denmark,...
Viking Footwear has appointed a new country manager for Denmark, Tom Tinning, who takes the place of Thomas Vangsaard, now in charge of Denmark for Ecco. Tinning, 45, started off as a sales rep for Nike and later became Danish sales manager for the big athletic brand. He worked for ...
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Galvin Green, the Swedish golf clothing brand, has promoted Andrew...
Galvin Green, the Swedish golf clothing brand, has promoted Andrew Creed to president of Galvin Green USA. Creed, who was formerly national sales manager, will expand the company's domestic operations, which will include the opening of a new U.S. headquarters in Avon, Connecticut this July. Creed joined Galvin Green when ...
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Performance Sports Group (PSG) has appointed Amir Rosenthal, the current...
Performance Sports Group (PSG) has appointed Amir Rosenthal, the current chief financial officer and executive vice president of finance & administration, as president of PSG Brands, a newly created position. Beginning June 1, he will oversee the day-to-day business of seven brands in the group's portfolio including Bauer, Cascade, Combat, ...
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Christian Beidatsch replaces Ralf Albracht as marketing manager for the...
Christian Beidatsch replaces Ralf Albracht as marketing manager for the Ergonomic Sport System division of Falke
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Three new board members have been appointed at Surftech after...
Three new board members have been appointed at Surftech after its acquisition earlier this year by Triple D, a Thailand-based investment company. The chairman is Trent Pedersen, president of D Technical Consulting, a subsidiary of Triple D that provides management, marketing and technical services for sports companies. He has been ...
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Columbia Sportswear has adjusted its team for sourcing, supply chain...
Columbia Sportswear has adjusted its team for sourcing, supply chain and finance. Lisa Kulok, who has served as vice president of global marketplace planning and customer operations since October 2009, has been promoted to senior vice president of global supply chain operations. Steve Woodside, who joined the company in August ...
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By the end of June, Michael Kamm will act as...
By the end of June, Michael Kamm will act as the only managing director of Sympatex Holding and its Sympatex Technologies and Plouquet subsidiaries. Jürgen Steffensen, joint managing director since 2010, will leave the group by mutual consent to pursue new managerial tasks elsewhere. He has been acting as chief ...
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Descente has set up a new organization structure to accelerate...
Descente has set up a new organization structure to accelerate its penetration of foreign markets. In April, the Japanese company formed a new Global Business Unit, headed up by Yoshikazu Tanaka as managing director for sales and marketing. He previously had the same function for the whole group. In the ...
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Paolo Manuzzi, a 46-year-old manager who has been with Vibram...
Paolo Manuzzi, a 46-year-old manager who has been with Vibram since 1993, has been promoted to the new position of global general manager. He started off as manager of the Italian supplier of high-tech shoe soles for Italy and Spain. He later opened Vibram's offices in the U.S. in 1999 ...
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Michael Austermühle, 46, has been appointed country manager of Patagonia...
Michael Austermühle, 46, has been appointed country manager of Patagonia for Germany and Austria, replacing Norbert Sandner who has been made European alpine and climbing manager. Austermühle was most recently the German country manager of The North Face, a company with which he worked for the past seven years. Prior ...
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Silke Sauer, 37, is the new head of licenses at...
Silke Sauer, 37, is the new head of licenses at Bogner, replacing Karin Silcher. She previously worked in licensing at two German fashion brands, S. Oliver and Gerry Weber.
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Han-Bo Shim, vice president and managing director for TaylorMade in...
Han-Bo Shim, vice president and managing director for TaylorMade in South Korea, has been appointed to the same position at Columbia Sportswear. The outdoor company said earlier this month that it was under pressure from bloated inventories in the crowded South Korean market, and that it was replacing its local ...
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In view of the strong development of its golfwear line,...
In view of the strong development of its golfwear line, Kjus has decided to strengthen its sales force by hiring a salesman for the U.K. and Ireland, instead of working with an independent agent. The job has been assigned to Alistair Brown, who has more than ten years of experience ...
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Vista Outdoor, the sporting goods and outdoor company recently spun...
Vista Outdoor, the sporting goods and outdoor company recently spun off from Alliant Techsystems (ATK), has appointed a vice president of marketing, Brett Merrell, and a vice president of investor relations, Michael Pici. They report to Mark DeYoung, chairman and chief executive of Vista Outdoor. Merrell has been placed in ...
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Keen has hired Chris Heffernan, a seasoned executive in the...
Keen has hired Chris Heffernan, a seasoned executive in the footwear industry, as general manager of Keen Utility. Heffernan previously spent three years at Honeywell International, as general manager of safety footwear and vice president of global product. He also worked for seven years at Timberland as global brand manager ...
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Daniel Grohman will be the new chief financial officer for...
Daniel Grohman will be the new chief financial officer for Björn Borg from July 15, replacing Magnus Teeling
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Heather Jackson, described as an expert in IT and change...
Heather Jackson, described as an expert in IT and change management, has become a non-executive director of JD Sports Fashion, parent company of Blacks, Millets and other outdoor retail chains in the U.K. She is also a non-executive director of Ikano Bank from Sweden, where she chairs the remuneration and ...
