That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 162
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Remember Gregor Dietachmayer? The former managing director of Fischer Sports,...
Remember Gregor Dietachmayer? The former managing director of Fischer Sports, who is only 45 years old, doesn't have to worry anymore whether there is going to be enough snow on the ground as the new international sales manager of Silhouette, the big Austrian company that markets its own brand of ...
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Freddy has signed new distribution contracts with LiLu for the...
Freddy has signed new distribution contracts with LiLu for the Russian market and with Sport on Top for the Danish market. Both contracts were signed at the beginning of this year. In July this year, Freddy signed a new distribution contract with Snow Force BVBA for the Benelux countries. Zalando, ...
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Werner Grau, chief executive officer of the Uvex sports group,...
Werner Grau, chief executive officer of the Uvex sports group, will be retiring after 33 years in the family business and leave the company at the end of July next year. From January 2012, Katharina Le Thierry will be assuming the post. Born in 1964, she has had a long ...
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Josh Hunter, editor in chief of TransWorld Business, leaves this...
Josh Hunter, editor in chief of TransWorld Business, leaves this American action sports magazine to handle sales and marketing for GLM Events, whose newest venture is the Action Sports Asia fair due to take place in Singapore next April 13-15
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Jessica Brown is leaving as executive editor of the British...
Jessica Brown is leaving as executive editor of the British Drapers magazine for a job as head of fashion at Amazon
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New Balance is recruiting heavily at its European office in...
New Balance is recruiting heavily at its European office in the U.K. for the national launch of the football range of its Warrior Sports subsidiary, which has concentrated until now on hockey and lacrosse
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Joe Ayling has left as news editor of Just-Style, the...
Joe Ayling has left as news editor of Just-Style, the international online news service, to act as editor of Optician, a British trade magazine for eyewear
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Golfino has assigned its sales operations in Switzerland to the...
Golfino has assigned its sales operations in Switzerland to the agency of Michael Rusterholz, called Custom Made. Corina Leppert, who was taking care of the country, can now concentrate on the Southern German regions of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Rusterholz serves other renowned brands from the fashion and golf clothing segment.
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Alpargatas is going to take over the distribution of Mizuno...
Alpargatas is going to take over the distribution of Mizuno in Argentina, from next February, and it has already started to take orders for the brand in the country. Alpargatas has already been quite successful with the Japanese brand in Brazil, particularly in the running segment. The Brazilian group, which ...
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Bill Adams is the new general manager for the EMEA...
Bill Adams is the new general manager for the EMEA markets at New Era. He is working from its office in London at the moment. He was previously the vice president of U.S. sales for seven years. Next year he will be going back to the U.S. and New Era ...
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J.Lindeberg re-acquired People's Liberation's 50 percent ownership in J.Lindeberg USA...
J.Lindeberg re-acquired People's Liberation's 50 percent ownership in J.Lindeberg USA LLC at the beginning of July. As a result, the U.S. wholesale business and the J.Lindeberg stores in New York, LA and Miami are now fully-owned by the J.Lindeberg group. The aim is to keep the company's strong golf sales ...
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Jean-Paul Onillon, former general manager of Sport 2000 in France,...
Jean-Paul Onillon, former general manager of Sport 2000 in France, has become the buying director for non-food products at Casino, the big French operator of supermarkets that controls Go Sport, among other holdings
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Joe Fernandez, who has spent more than 20 years at...
Joe Fernandez, who has spent more than 20 years at Orbea, has become the new general manager of this Spanish producer of bicycles. The former general manager, Miguel Ocaña, has joined Orbea's parent company, Grupo Mondragón, as vice president in charge of its equipment division.
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Derby Cycle has set up a direct sales unit in...
Derby Cycle has set up a direct sales unit in Australia that replaces its former distributor there, Green Apple Sports, from which it bought the inventories and customer receivables. Graeme Moffett, the owner and managing director of Green Apple Sports, was appointed managing director of Derby Cycle's Australian business. Derby ...
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Crocs is now directly managing the distribution of its shoe...
Crocs is now directly managing the distribution of its shoe collections in Portugal and Slovakia. Before, Crocs had been selling its product line in these countries by means of a distributor. At the moment, Crocs manages the distribution of its products directly in altogether 15 countries. In the future, the ...
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Lacoste has named Micheline Kaufmann to its board of directors....
Lacoste has named Micheline Kaufmann to its board of directors. She spent more than 30 years with Chanel, where her positions included head of marketing for perfumes and beauty, and international head of marketing, corporate.
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Look Cycle has assumed responsibility for the distribution in France...
Look Cycle has assumed responsibility for the distribution in France of Sunn, a French brand of mountain and all-terrain bicycles with revenues of €2.2 million in 2009
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VF Corporation has signed an agreement with Arvind Group for...
VF Corporation has signed an agreement with Arvind Group for the distribution of Vans in the country. As part of the deal, two Vans stores will be opening in Bangalore and Delhi in the next few weeks. The Arvind Group has had a close partnership with VF for its jeans ...
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Hans-Hermann Deters, the 51-year-old was most recently the chief executive...
Hans-Hermann Deters, the 51-year-old was most recently the chief executive of Kettler, will be joining the executive board of Ara Shoes as of Aug. 1, filling a new position where he will have responsibility for marketing, distribution and sales. Deters originally studied law and worked in news publishing, but he ...
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Joachim Harbich, a German executive from the music industry, joined...
Joachim Harbich, a German executive from the music industry, joined Pelé Sports last month as global marketing director, which is a new position. The Swiss-based football brand launched at the World Cup last year already had a global marketing manager, Zoe Geary. She joined in March from IMG, the master ...
