That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 50
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Lululemon's CFO leaves
Lululemon has announced the departure of its current chief financial officer, Patrick Guido, on May 8. He will be joining the Asbury Automotive Group as senior vice-president and chief financial officer. Meghan Frank, Lululemon’s senior vice-president of financial planning & analysis, and Alex Grieve, vice-president and controller, will take over ...
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SportScheck’s boss quits
Markus Rech, former chief executive of SportScheck, is leaving the Signa Retail Group, the new parent company of the German sporting goods retail chain, by mutual agreement to take on new professional challenges. The 46-year-old worked for SportScheck for the past four years and helped the company to expand its ...
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Typhoon hires a new operations director
Typhoon International has named James Saunders as its new operations director, in charge of the Typhoon and ISP brands of protective clothing and lifesaving equipment as well as procurement, manufacturing, customer service, warehousing and technical procedures. Saunders has been serving for months as a consultant to the British manufacturer of ...
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Wolverine changes its brand structure
By May 30 at the latest, Todd Spaletto will be stepping down as president of Wolverine Worldwide’s Michigan Brands group, which consists of the Merrell, Chaco, CAT Footwear, Hush Puppies and Sebago brands. Rather than replace him in the post, Wolverine is promoting three executives and dividing responsibility for its ...
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EBay CEO
EBay has appointed Jamie Iannone, most recently chief operating officer of Walmart’s e-commerce division, as its new chief executive officer, effective April 27. He will succeed to Devin Wenig, who left eBay in September 2019.
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Bike Europe has a new senior editor
Bike Europe, the Dutch trade magazine, hired Rosie Burgin as senior editor last month. Burgin – who has also worked for Rosegarden Studios and 3 Circles Media – was formerly an editor at Reed Business Information and, most recently, at the agricultural publisher Misset. At Bike Europe she is succeeding ...
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News briefsFjällräven has a new global marketing director
Fjällräven announced that Alexander Matt has been appointed as the new global marketing director for the brand effective April 15. He succeeds Leif Öhlund, who left in 2019 to pursue other opportunities. For the last four years, Matt held the position of chief marketing officer at the Fiskars Group, where ...
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Amazon’s VP for the EU steps down
Roy Perticucci has stepped down as vice president of Amazon’s European operations, responsible for 12 member countries of the European Union. Based in Luxembourg, he was hired for the job in 2013, having held executive posts at Unieuro, Dixons Stores Group, Ground Control, Dixon Stores, Unieuro and Ahold. The reasons ...
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UA hires new chief product officer
Lisa Collier will be the new chief product officer at Under Armour, reporting to the company’s president and chief executive, Patrik Frisk, as of April 27. Succeeding Kevin Eskridge, who has resigned and will leave the company in August, she will oversee category management, product, merchandising and design. Collier has ...
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Intersport Germany appoints new chief financial officer
Intersport Germany appointed Thomas Storck to the position of chief financial officer on April 1. Storck immediately succeeds Hannes Rumer, who had asked for early termination of his contract as of March 31. Before joining Intersport Germany, Storck worked as business analyst for sales and purchasing at Real, a subsidiary ...
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Bollé Brands hires digital director
Bollé Brands continues to boost its management. The holding company for Bollé, Bollé Safety, Serengeti, Cébé, H2Optix and Spy Optics eyewear.has appointed Damien Hars as digital director, responsible for the development of their B2B and B2C online sales platforms worldwide. Hars previously worked for the Rossignol Group, responsible for the ...
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Management changes at Eastpak and Kipling
VF Corp. saw a number of management changes on April 1. Nina Flood, until now president of Kipling Americas, left to become president of another VF brand, Eastpak. Settling in Antwerp, Belgium, Flood now has charge of the backpack brand’s marketing and sales operations and is reporting to Martino Scabbia ...
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Mizuno appoints new country manager for Germany and Austria
Mizuno, the Japanese sporting goods manufacturer, has recently appointed Christian Wiesender as country manager for Germany and Austria. In this function, he will not only support existing customers, but also promote the company’s sales strategy and brand communication in both markets. Wiesender will work closely with Jean-Paul von der Linden, ...
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Base Detall Sport parts ways with its general director
According to the Spanish trade magazine CMDsport, Base Detall Sport will be “doing without” its general director of five years, Alex Cucurull, so as to “follow through on” and even expedite the strategic plan developed by its board of directors in consultation with the company’s management and commissions as well ...
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Wolverine appoints global brand presidents
Wolverine Worldwide has appointed Joelle Grunberg as global president of its Sperry division and Tom Kennedy as global president of the Wolverine brand, with oversight for the Licensing Group and membership on the acquisitions team. Grunberg has spent the past seven years as president and chief executive for North and ...
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Clarus appoints EVP of operations and talent
Clarus Corp. has appointed Kelly Davis as executive vice-president of operations and talent, effective March 26. Davis previously served as a vice-president and general manager of Idex Corp., a diversified engineered products company, where he was responsible for the Trebor and Knight business units. Prior to joining Idex, he served ...
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TaylorMade appoints CFO
TaylorMade Golf Company has appointed Rick Paschal as chief financial officer, with oversight of finance, accounting and treasury as well as IT. He will report to the company’s chief executive, David Abeles. Paschal served for years in finance-related executive positions at the food companies Pepsi, Pillsbury, Nestlé and Godiva before ...
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Jochen Gärtner is Fila’s new European sales director
Jochen Gärtner has taken over the position of sales director Europe for Fila, a brand for which the Deichmann group holds the European license indirectly. With immediate effect, he will be responsible for sales and marketing for all collections – with the exception of the tennis category. Gärtner was hired ...
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New manager at X-Technology
X-Technology Swiss, the owner of X-Bionic, X-Socks and Apani, has hired Luca Bacherotti as its new chief operations officer. Bacherotti has more than 30 years of high-level managerial experience in the textile industry, having worked for Asics, Tommy Hilfiger and Levi Strauss. In his new role at X-Technology, he is ...
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Bogner’s CEO resigns
Andreas Baumgärtner, who has been the chief executive of Bogner since November 2017, will be leaving the company at the end of March. According to the company, Baumgärtner is leaving at his own request and for personal reasons. He will resign on March 31 but continue to serve in an ...
