That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 144
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Robert J. Corliss, the American sporting goods industry veteran who...
Robert J. Corliss, the American sporting goods industry veteran who owned and ran for many years The Athlete's Foot, a big international chain of franchised athletic footwear shops, has been appointed to replace Mike McTigh next Sept. 1 as chairman of JJB Sports, the struggling British sporting goods retail chain. McTigh's resignation ...
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Amer Sports is restructuring its management in central Europe, splitting...
Amer Sports is restructuring its management in central Europe, splitting the functions of country manager and regional manager. Armin Fuchs, former country manager in Germany, has been appointed general manager for Amer Sports in central Europe. His function as country manager for Germany has been taken over by Daniel Sprung, former ...
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Alexander Selch has been appointed managing director in charge of...
Alexander Selch has been appointed managing director in charge of marketing and sales at the Uvex Sports Group, the family-owned German company that sells the Uvex and Alpina brands of helmets and goggles. He takes over from Katharina Le Thierry, who only started in this function at the start of ...
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The German press has prominently featured stories about Trigema, carrying...
The German press has prominently featured stories about Trigema, carrying pictures from Wolfgang Grupp's 70th birthday celebration and the announcement that his two children, 21-year-old Wolfgang and 22-year-old Bonita, will take over the management of the company after they finish their studies abroad. Trigema continues to manufacture its T-shirts and ...
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Larry Miller, 61, is reclaiming his former position as president...
Larry Miller, 61, is reclaiming his former position as president of the Jordan brand at Nike. Miller formerly held the position from 1999 to 2006, then left to become president of the Portland Trail Blazers, the NBA team. He will help the Jordan brand grow globally, reporting to Trevor Edwards, ...
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Stéphane Solinski has been appointed general manager of Sport 2000...
Stéphane Solinski has been appointed general manager of Sport 2000 France after the departure of Frédéric Dekeyser, who led the buying group's operational and financial restructuring plan in the last two years. The 44-year-old Solinski started his career in marketing functions in the car industry, notably at Renault. In 2002 he switched to the retail ...
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K2 Sports reshuffles its European sales team. Carsten Kleffner is...
K2 Sports reshuffles its European sales team. Carsten Kleffner is the new sales manager for K2 Skates Europe. Kleffner had been responsible for K2 Snowboarding as sales manager for over ten years, a position that he will pass on to Andreas Threimer, previously in charge of the marketing of K2 ...
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Royal Dutch Gazelle, the bicycle company, has new management on...
Royal Dutch Gazelle, the bicycle company, has new management on board. Jaap Merkus has moved into the top slot as general manager, replacing Xeno Grimmelt, who held the job on an interim basis. Grimmelt moved up to be senior vice president heading up the Pon Bicycle Group, which owns Gazelle. ...
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Harry Arnett has been named senior vice president for marketing...
Harry Arnett has been named senior vice president for marketing at Callaway Golf Company. He comes from TaylorMade, Adidas and Ashworth Golf, where he was vice president for global marketing. He has also held positions with Russell Corporation and Tinwood Media Ventures.
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The NBA has named Marc Armstrong vice president of marketing...
The NBA has named Marc Armstrong vice president of marketing partnerships for the NBA's EMEA region (Europe, the Middle East and Africa). He will develop new commercial opportunities across the region for the NBA, the WNBA, the NBA Development League and USAB. He will report to Benjamin Morel, senior vice ...
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Arne Arens has been appointed vice president and general manager...
Arne Arens has been appointed vice president and general manager for The North Face in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Arens joined The North Face EMEA as sales director in 2010. He will take over from Timo Schmidt Eisenhart, who will switch to Timberland, another company in the ...
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Daniele Grasso, formerly with Sympatex Technologies, has been appointed senior...
Daniele Grasso, formerly with Sympatex Technologies, has been appointed senior product manager apparel shells at Jack Wolfskin. At Sympatex, he has been replaced by Haymo Strubel as director for apparel. Before joining Sympatex, Strubel worked for YKK, the zip company, as European key account manager.
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B.O.C. – Bike & Outdoor Company GmbH & Co., Germany's...
B.O.C. – Bike & Outdoor Company GmbH & Co., Germany's No. 1 bike retail chain – has named Stephan Geiger to be its new joint general manager, running the company along with Bernd Heumann. Geiger was formerly the general manager of the bicycle and e-bike division of Heinz Kettler GmbH ...
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Nicolas Fauré, 44, is going to run the French subsidiary...
Nicolas Fauré, 44, is going to run the French subsidiary of Head, replacing Jean Noël Faucheux. He will remain in charge of the Spanish subsidiary, which he has been running since 2008. Fauré started at Head 11 years ago as product manager for racquet sports in France.
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Rolf Gullestad is preparing to relinquish his job as president...
Rolf Gullestad is preparing to relinquish his job as president and chief executive of Gresvig, the buying group behind the Intersport, G-Sport and G-Max banners in Norway. The 65-year-old Gullestad has been at the helm for 11 years, leading Gresvig through a change of ownership and a move into fashion ...
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MTS, the German owner of indoor and racquet sports labels...
MTS, the German owner of indoor and racquet sports labels such as Donic-Schildkröt and Unsquashable as well as regional distributor of Tecnifibre, Talbot-Torro and Speedminton, has appointed Sebastian Frey as new co-managing director. He will assist Jean-Marc von Keller, who has been sole managing director since 1994. Frey, 36, has ...
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Garmont is going to be the distributor of Movement skis...
Garmont is going to be the distributor of Movement skis in the U.S. and Canada
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Guido Geilenkirchen, general manager of Saucony for the German-speaking countries...
Guido Geilenkirchen, general manager of Saucony for the German-speaking countries and Poland, has been additionally appointed to the job of commercial director for Europe. On top of this, he will directly oversee sales and marketing in the Benelux countries and the U.K. For the German-speaking countries and Poland, he will ...
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Jonas Ottosson, former chief executive of Peak Performance, will take...
Jonas Ottosson, former chief executive of Peak Performance, will take up the same job at the Odlo Sports Group in mid-September at the latest. Ottosson takes over from Andreas Kessler, who joined the Swiss-based specialist in functional base layers in 2008 as marketing director and became its chief executive the ...
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Nic Versloot, who joined Skins as chief operating officer last...
Nic Versloot, who joined Skins as chief operating officer last year, became the compression apparel brand's chief executive last month, based at the company's head office in Switzerland. He replaces Jaimie Fuller, the founder of Skins, who became the company's chairman. This comes just a few weeks after Fuller regained ...
