That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 166
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Roeckl announces the appointment of Katharina Naehr, 36, as manager...
Roeckl announces the appointment of Katharina Naehr, 36, as manager of PR and marketing
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StudioGolf, founded in 2010 in Moscow, is the first Russian...
StudioGolf, founded in 2010 in Moscow, is the first Russian dealer picked up by Miura Golf, the golf club company named after its Japanese manufacturing and product development director, Katsuhiro Miura
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Invista has made three internal promotions. After more than 15...
Invista has made three internal promotions. After more than 15 years with the company in South America, the U.S. and Europe, Denise Sakuma is made global and North American brand communication director. She was previously segment director for legwear, a position in which she is going to be replaced by ...
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Reichmann, the German supplier of ski maintenance equipment, has hired...
Reichmann, the German supplier of ski maintenance equipment, has hired a product manager, Michael Riedel
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Rip Curl has announced the nomination of Yann Tschumi as...
Rip Curl has announced the nomination of Yann Tschumi as its new European sales director. Based at the company's European head office at Hossegor, France, he basically takes the place of José Luis Sanz, a Spaniard recently appointed as country manager of Kappa in the Iberian Peninsula by the French-based ...
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Angelo Caccia is returning to Gruppo Srl, the Italian maker...
Angelo Caccia is returning to Gruppo Srl, the Italian maker of bicycles under the Cinelli, Columbus and Bootleg brands, as vice president and a member of the board of directors. He worked there between 1982 and 1990, before a long career as commercial director at Campagnolo, the leading Italian supplier ...
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Two vice chairmen have been added to the recently created...
Two vice chairmen have been added to the recently created bicycle technical committee of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry, which is headed up by Dirk Bruynseraede of Ridley Bikes. They are Claudio Marra of Full Speed Ahead and Mark Schroeder of Specialized.
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Skate Out, a Swedish supplier of skate and snowboard products,...
Skate Out, a Swedish supplier of skate and snowboard products, adds Arbor skateboards and snowboards to its collection of brands. Arbor was founded in 1995 with the goal of creating products with as little environmental footprint as possible without sacrificing quality. Bamboo is used in both Arbor clothes and boards, ...
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Panatta Sport is setting up its own sales subsidiary...
Panatta Sport is setting up its own sales subsidiary in Spain, where its products have been handled by various distributors until now
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Isabelle Mille, who has worked for Quiksilver for many years,...
Isabelle Mille, who has worked for Quiksilver for many years, is appointed vice president of direct-to-consumer operations for Lolë, the Canadian brand of women's activewear and lifestyle clothing of Coalision. Stationed on the Basque coast of France and reporting directly to Bernard Mariette, the former president of Quiksilver who became ...
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Gaëtan Le Guennec, a former regional sales manager of Rip...
Gaëtan Le Guennec, a former regional sales manager of Rip Curl, is appointed retail manager of Volcom for Europe as the company gets ready to open new stores in Berlin and at Falmouth in the U.K. Volcom recently opened a new store in Bordeaux, joining those it has in Hossegor, ...
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Due to several years of steady growth for New Element,...
Due to several years of steady growth for New Element, the Swedish company is now expanding. The founder and owner, Ulf Waldekrantz, has hired Ola Gräsberg, former administrative director at Riksbyggen, as chief executive. Waldekrantz will focus on sales and development. At the same time, New Element adds the Norwegian ...
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KPSport has started the distribution of Halti in Spain and...
KPSport has started the distribution of Halti in Spain and Andorra
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Spenco Medical Corporation, the sports medicine and foot-care company, has...
Spenco Medical Corporation, the sports medicine and foot-care company, has named Evan Wert to be its new sports marketing manager, and Jennifer Wilson is the new medical marketing manager
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Jeff Lasher is the new chief financial officer at Crocs....
Jeff Lasher is the new chief financial officer at Crocs. Since January he had been the company's principal accounting officer and interim principal financial officer, in addition to his role since Jun 2009 as corporate controller. Before he joined Crocs he was with Connelly Consulting, a private financial services company.
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Michael Mulholland is the new chief executive of Nautilus...
Michael Mulholland is the new chief executive of Nautilus
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Jeroen Bolwerk, formerly in charge of buying and services for...
Jeroen Bolwerk, formerly in charge of buying and services for sports retailers at Euretco, the buying group behind Sport 2000 and Runners World in the Netherlands, has switched to the Unlimited Sports Group
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Elizabeth J. Comstock is the newest member of Nike's board....
Elizabeth J. Comstock is the newest member of Nike's board. She is a senior vice president and chief marketing officer for General Electric Company, a position she has held since 2008. She has been with GE since 1994.
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K-Swiss has named Michael Augustine to be its new worldwide...
K-Swiss has named Michael Augustine to be its new worldwide director of apparel. He will handle design, development and merchandising for the brand's performance apparel, special makeup product and co-branded collections, which include Ironman, L.A. Marathon and Jillian Michaels. He'll report to Alden Sheets, president for worldwide apparel. Augustine started ...
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Sports Direct International has appointed Rebecca Tylee-Birdsall as company secretary....
Sports Direct International has appointed Rebecca Tylee-Birdsall as company secretary. She has been acting company secretary since May 17, 2010. Sports Direct has also named Charlie McCreevy to its board as non-executive director, in line with its strategy to expand its retail operations throughout the European Union. This former Irish ...
