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Two prominent Adidas executives quit
Two prominent U.S.-based Adidas executives are leaving at the same time, but an official of the company says the two events are completely unrelated. Jon Wexler, a 20-year veteran of the company who has been leading its Yeezy business unit since last November as vice president and general manager, left ...
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Betterguards has a new CEO
Betterguards Technology – a start-up headquartered in Berlin whose “safety belt for joints” can be incorporated into athletic supports and shoes – has hired Jocelyn Robiot to be its chief executive. The company’s founder, Vinzenz Bichler, is stepping down from the post to become chief technology officer. Robiot has spent ...
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Zalando hires three SVPs
Zalando has promoted an executive and hired two more. Andreas Antrup, who has been with the European internet fashion platform since April 2011, is moving to a new post as senior vice president of advertising. Antrup has been leading a five-year-old department called Zalando Marketing Services (ZMS). Andrew Watts came ...
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Polygiene is reorganizing the management
Polygiene is strengthening its corporate management team due to increased demand for the company’s anti-viral technology, ViralOff. Andreas Holm, who was brought in as a temporary resource during the launch of ViralOff, will assume the position of chief commercial officer on Sept. 1 at the company head office in Malmö, ...
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New chairman for Adidas
Thomas Rabe, 55, has been appointed as the new chairman of Adidas AG’s supervisory board. He succeeds the 76-year-old Igor Landau after 16 years in that position. Rabe became chief financial officer of Bertelsmann in 2006 and was promoted to chief executive of the global media company six years later. ...
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New president for Wolverine
On Sept. 8, Wolverine Worldwide will have a new president and member of the board, Brendan Hoffmann. He brings over 30 years of experience in merchandising, digital marketing and omni-channel retail experiences. Among various stations, he served as president and chief executive of Bon-Ton Stores and Lord & Taylor. Earlier, ...
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Footway replaces Sportamore’s CEO with an integration specialist
Johan Ryding is leaving as chief executive of Sportamore, the Swedish-based online sports retailer, following the company’s acquisition by another Swedish e-tailer, Footway, in the spring, as part of the integration process. Henrik Martin took over his place as interim CEO on Aug. 12. Described as an integration specialist, Martin ...
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Carl Sterner sets up Shimano’s new fishing organization for the Nordics
Shimano has appointed Carl Sterner to build and lead a new sales organization for its fishing tackle products in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway. It will be based in Uppsala, Sweden. Sterner was previously responsible for the hunting and wilderness segment in Sweden at XXL, the big Nordic sporting goods ...
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News briefsPuma appoints Ben Hughes as general manager for UKIB
Source: Puma Ben Hughes Puma has appointed Ben Hughes as general manager for the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Benelux countries (UKIB), with immediate effect. He succeeds Paul Spencer, who moved to the position of regional sales director for Europe at the beginning of July, as previously ...
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Rorsted to head Adidas for another five years
The supervisory board of Adidas has extended Kasper Rorsted’s term as chief executive officer by five years – through July 31, 2026. Rorsted joined the company’s executive board in August 2016 and became CEO two months later. Meanwhile, Thomas Rabe will be moving up from deputy chairman to chairman of ...
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Bogner’s design director resigns
The German trade magazine Textilwirtschaft reports that the German sports fashion label Bogner is once again seeing some movement in its management. Design director Frauke Schelkes will be leaving the company on Oct. 31. According to Bogner, she is leaving at her own request. Schelkes joined the company three years ...
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Nike has a new diversity director
Kellie Leonard, Nike’s director of diversity and inclusion since the creation of this position in 2018, is stepping down, leaving the company. She will be replaced by Felicia Mayo, who assumes the newly coined title of chief talent, diversity and culture officer, leading a newly formed team. Mayo joined Nike ...
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Smith names new executives
Smith, a Safilo Group brand, has appointed Francesco Rinaldi Ceroni as general manager. He joins the company after more than 13 years in both wholesale and retail eyewear, serving most recently as vice president of international strategy and business development at Costa Del Mar. In his new role, he will ...
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Timberland hires new VP of global marketing
Timberland hired Drieke Leenknegt in June to be its vice president of global marketing, joining its global leadership team. She is succeeding Argu Secilmis, who has become vice president of global apparel. Leenknegt will be liaising with the brand’s regional marketing teams in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Middle ...
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Canada Goose sends a signal with the strategic hire of a GM Footwear
Canada Goose appointed Adam Meek to the new role of general manager of footwear & accessories. Meek brings more than 20 years of global footwear experience to this role. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of product at Sperry (Wolverine Worldwide), where he led the brand’s global product ...
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Nike has a new head of talent, diversity and culture
Nike has promoted Felicia Mayo from vice president of human resources to chief talent, diversity & culture officer, to replace Kellie Leonard. In the past year, as we have reported, there have been a number of complaints against Nike over lack of diversity and unequal pay in management – a ...
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Slinger Bag expands into Canada
Slinger Bag, the new sports equipment brand internationally focused on ”innovating game improvement equipment for all ball sports,“ announced a significant expansion in Canada with the appointment of Doug Coombs as director of business development for that market, effective immediately. Like Mike Ballandie, the chief executive of Slinger Bags, Coombs ...
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UA hires senior sales director for EMEA
Under Armour has hired Phil Fox as senior director of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Reporting to the region’s managing director, Massimo Baratto, Fox is now leading wholesale and distribution and refining a digital-first, consumer-centric strategy with UA’s current commercial partners. Fox has about 25 years’ ...
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ArticleNike realigns management for digital DTC, places EMEA under Grebert
Nike will be making several changes to its top management and operating model in keeping with the “Consumer Direct Acceleration” (CDA) policy it announced in June while releasing its latest financial results. The Nike brand’s regional divisions will remain as they stand, but two of them will be swapping out ...
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Adidas France has a new managing director
Mathieu Sidokpohou has taken over from Guillaume de Monplanet as the new managing director of Adidas France, the French subsidiary of the sporting goods giant. De Monplanet, who joined the Adidas group in 2005 as commercial director for Reebok, has left the company. He became country manager in 2018. Sidokpohou’s ...
