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Former Swix Sport Group centralizes its management
The Brav Group – the Norwegian-based owner of the Swix, Toko, Lundhags, Ulvang, Helsport and Hard Rocx brands – resorted to video conferencing this spring to start implementing a reorganization at the height of the Covid-19 quarantines. Leading the charge was the company’s new chief executive, Espen Falck Engelstad, who ...
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Nautilus hires new chief digital officer
Nautilus hired Garry Wiseman on Oct. 26 to be its senior vice president and chief digital officer. He will be overseeing JRNY – the platform that creates tailored home workouts – and the direct-to-consumer e-commerce business while also helping with the company’s digitalization. Wiseman is coming off a nearly four-year ...
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News briefsThierry Guibert will run the whole Maus Frères group
Didier Maus, retiring after 28 years with the family-owned company, has arranged with the board of directors of Maus Frères to yield the post of chief executive to Thierry Guibert on Jan. 18, 2021. Maus will retain his non-executive duties as chairman, while Guibert will retain his current duties as ...
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Puma appoints new head of Sportstyle unit
Puma has appointed Maria Valdes as the new general manager of its Sportstyle unit, the company’s largest business unit by revenues. She replaces Reinhard Dischner, who will leave Puma at the end of the year after 18 years with the company. Dischner will stay on until then to ensure a ...
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News briefsInternetstores appoints a chief brand officer
Internetstores has added a chief brand officer (CBO) to its management team. Alongside Hans Dohrmann, Thomas Spengler, Raid Naim, Olivier Rochon and Martin Netinder, Frank Aldorf is now part of the company’s management board. In his new function as CBO, Aldorf is now responsible for the purchasing department of Europe’s ...
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Millet Mountain Group will soon have a new boss
Romain Millet will take over from Frédéric Ducruet as the new managing director of the Millet Mountain Group. Ducruet had been at the helm for the past seven years, and has worked for Millet for 19 years. According to reports in sport-guide.fr, Millet will be appointed to the new role ...
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Gore’s chairman becomes its CEO
Bret Snyder, chairman of W. L. Gore & Associates, succeeded Jason Field as president and chief executive of the company on Oct. 9. Field will be staying through December for the transition. Snyder has been chairman since 2016 and will retain his seat on the board. He is the grandson ...
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Only three managers at the helm of Intersport Deutschland
Intersport Deutschland is no longer looking for a successor to Mathias Boenke, the 54-year-old manager who joined its executive board in 2018 after building up Intersport Austria. Boenke had indicated that he was going to remain in the post for as long as necessary until the expiration of his contract ...
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Reorganizing the top management, VF names Steve Murray president of TNF
VF Corporation is changing its management structure to suit changes in the way it does business, notably by dividing its brand portfolio into Core Brands and Emerging Brands and by getting them to be managed differently to help them achieve their full potential. Until now, the operations of its three ...
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News briefsBurton opens new Hub in Stockholm, appoints new managers for the Nordics
Burton Snowboards will open a new multi-use space, referred to as the Burton Hub, at Norrlandsgatan 20 in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 15. After establishing the concept of combining retail store, showroom, and office spaces already in Innsbruck, Munich, and Zurich, the company now expands to Scandinavia. The new Burton ...
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Pentland has a new global brand director for Canterbury and Mitre
Pentland Brands has made Jodie Soussan its global brand director for the Canterbury and Mitre brands. Replacing Charlotte Cox, who has been promoted to president for EMEA, she will be reporting to the future chief marketing officer, Penny Herriman, who will take up her post later this year. Soussan joined ...
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Li & Fung shuffles its top management
Li & Fung, which went private in May of this year, is shifting Joseph Phi from group president to chief executive. Spencer Fung, CEO since 2014, is in turn moving to executive chairman. He will be replacing William Fung, who is taking a seat alongside his brother, Victor Fung, on ...
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News briefsBurton appoints new creative and marketing executives
Source: © Burton Adrian Margelist Burton Snowboards has named Adrian Josef Margelist as its new executive creative director, and Kelly Murnaghan as senior vice-president of global marketing. Both Margelist and Murnaghan, who have already started in their respective roles, will report to Burton’s chief executive, John Lacy. ...
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Puma hires new creative director
Puma has hired June Ambrose as creative director, in charge of designing items for women and girls. The 48-year-old designer from Antigua has a long list of important clients including several well-known Hollywood actors and hip-hop and R&B musicians – Zoe Saldana, Kim Cattrall, Missy Elliot, P. Diddy, Mariah Carey, ...
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News briefsAmanda Rajkumar will run HR for Adidas
Amanda Rajkumar, a 48-year-old British national with 24 years of experience in human relations at other global organizations, is taking the place of Karen Parkin at the Adidas Group as the executive board member in charge of global human relations, overseeing a staff of nearly 60,000 people. She will be ...
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News briefsUvex appoints new sales manager
Uvex Sports is strengthening its sales team by creating the new position of head of sales, with oversight for domestic and international sales, which has been assumed by Patrick Schmollinger as of Oct. 1. Schmollinger started his sales career at Speedo Germany after completing his studies. He then moved to ...
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News briefsJack Wolfskin has a new CFO
André Grube is the new chief financial officer of Jack Wolfskin. On Oct. 1, he took over responsibility for the company’s financial division as well as the tax & legal, human resources and office management departments of the German outdoor brand, which has been the property of Callaway Golf since ...
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Reebok appoints new VP of creative direction
Reebok has appointed Kerby Jean-Raymond, a Haitian-American fashion designer, to the position of vice president of creative direction, in replacement of Karen Reuther. He will be working with the product, global marketing and development teams. He will also join Reebok’s senior management, which reports to the brand’s president, Matt O’Toole. ...
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ArticleStefan Rainer becomes Oberalp’s CSO
Justifying the introduction of a new sales structure with a shift to a “channel-driven approach” rather than a geographical basis under the management of Christoph Engl, the Oberalp Group has announced that Stefan Rainer will become its chief sales office on Oct. 1. Rainer, who has been the general manager ...
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Anta’s president will run Amer Sports
Jie (James) Zheng, executive director and president of Anta Sports Products, is taking over the responsibilities of Heikki Takala, who has decided to resign from his role as president and chief executive of Amer Sports after ten years in the position. Takala, a former commercial director of Procter & Gamble, ...
