That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 63
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Munich, the sports and lifestyle shoe brand based in Barcelona,...
Munich, the sports and lifestyle shoe brand based in Barcelona, has made Xavier Artigas its new export sales manager. Artigas has previously worked, in both retail and wholesale, for the jewelers Majorica and Carrera y Carrera, the shoemaker Castañer and the watchmaker Grupo Cadarso/Ice-Watch, mostly as a director of national ...
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Stefan Mues has assumed the newly created position of chief...
Stefan Mues has assumed the newly created position of chief digital officer and become a member of the executive board at the Calida group, which owns the Calida, Aubade, Millet, Oxbow, Eider and Lafuma brands. The 44-year-old will be responsible for the digitization of the group. He will report directly ...
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SportScheck, the leading German sporting goods retailer, appointed Axel Puhlmann...
SportScheck, the leading German sporting goods retailer, appointed Axel Puhlmann to the position of marketing director on Jan. 7. He succeeds Paul Stahala, who had held the position since September 2016 and joined Karstadt as marketing director in November of last year. Puhlmann began his career as a consultant for ...
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Schöffel has appointed Peter Sontheimer to lead product development. Before...
Schöffel has appointed Peter Sontheimer to lead product development. Before joining Schöffel, Sontheimer worked for Ziener, where he was chief executive and head of product management, design and purchasing. Sontheimer also worked for over two decades at Vaude. At Schöffel, he will both lead the product management, design, technical development ...
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Sram, the Chicago-based maker of bicycle components, has appointed Ken...
Sram, the Chicago-based maker of bicycle components, has appointed Ken Lousberg as chief executive. He is replacing a co-founder of the company, Stan Day, who served for 31 years and is now becoming chairman of the board of directors. Lousberg has been serving as chief operating officer for the past ...
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Michael Dannhauser has been appointed to the new position of...
Michael Dannhauser has been appointed to the new position of chief operating officer for the Uvex Sports Group, joining its chief executive, Christophe Weissenberger, on its executive board. Besides supervising its factories and other operational processes, he will also have responsibility for finance and controlling, following the departure last February ...
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François Letterade has been appointed by Boardriders to the new...
François Letterade has been appointed by Boardriders to the new position of Quiksilver EMEA brand manager. He started at Quiksilver as European product manager for men's and youth products in 2009. Three years later he became global product manager for technical snow products under the Quiksilver, Roxy, DC, Lib Tech ...
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Manuele Barbon has been appointed as the new export manager...
Manuele Barbon has been appointed as the new export manager of MGM, the Italian parent company of Kayland and Trezeta, which is also the licensee for Fila inline skates. While focusing on some key foreign markets, he will also serve as general sales manager of the company's footwear division, helping ...
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that Pere Miró,...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that Pere Miró, who has been director of National Olympic Committee (NOC) relations and of Olympic Solidarity for 26 years, will now focus exclusively on his role as deputy director general for relations with the Olympic Movement. In this function, he will maintain ...
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Sport 2000 International has hired an experienced, business analyst, Erika...
Sport 2000 International has hired an experienced, business analyst, Erika Schuh, to help the group to evaluate the big data collected by its national retail organizations in order to make better decisions through an analysis of internal processes and market developments. Schuh had already helped the group with data analysis ...
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Thierry Lavigne, one of the retail members of Sport 2000...
Thierry Lavigne, one of the retail members of Sport 2000 France, has taken the place of Frédéric Poux as chairman of the voluntary group following the exit of the Activa Capital investment fund. Poux, who formerly ran a chain of franchised optical retail shops, Alain Afflelou, had been appointed to ...
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Tecnica Group has reorganized the operations of its Swiss subsidiary...
Tecnica Group has reorganized the operations of its Swiss subsidiary in connection with the retirement at the end of this year of its country manager, Ueli Schaub, after 27 years of work for Nordica and eight years as general manager of Tecnica Group Schweiz. Starting on Jan. 1, the managers ...
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Jim Marson, senior product developer, will be retiring from Therm-a-Rest...
Jim Marson, senior product developer, will be retiring from Therm-a-Rest at the end of the year. He was hired in 1987 by Cascade Designs, the Seattle-based camping-gear company that owns the brand. Before his most recent post, Marson served as engineering technician, engineering designer, product development specialist and product developer ...
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Intersport International Corporation (IIC) has reported on the creation of...
Intersport International Corporation (IIC) has reported on the creation of a new position of global category director for lifestyle products. It will be filled by Marcus Albrecht, who comes from Zalando. He worked there for the past two years as head of sports, starting in sales and subsequently handling product ...
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Like Intersport International Corp. (IIC), Intersport Germany is moving into...
Like Intersport International Corp. (IIC), Intersport Germany is moving into category management in all the five countries in which it operates under its recently appointed chief executive, Alexander von Preen. Starting on Jan. 1, the former sales function will be eliminated and replaced by the new category management and strategic ...
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Chi Lo-Jen will succeed Lawrence Chen as CEO of Stella...
Chi Lo-Jen will succeed Lawrence Chen as CEO of Stella International
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Peter Ruppe, who recently left as Under Armour's senior vice...
Peter Ruppe, who recently left as Under Armour's senior vice president of footwear, is joining Columbia Sportswear to help double sales of Columbia branded shoes within three years, according to the Oregonian. Mark Nenow will continue to be in charge of Sorel, another brand of the group. Ruppe joined UA ...
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VF Corporation has appointed Stefano Saccone to run Vans' European...
VF Corporation has appointed Stefano Saccone to run Vans' European business in the position of vice president and general manager of the brand for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), starting next April 1. One of his challenges will be to help the group to raise Vans' annual sales ...
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Nike has appointed Tamika Curry Smith as vice president of...
Nike has appointed Tamika Curry Smith as vice president of diversity and inclusion, according to a report in Black Enterprise. She previously held similar roles at Mercedez-Benz USQA and at Target. The new executive is supposed to be taking the place of Antoine Andrews, who left the group in April.
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Thule has appointed Nis Gjendal as vice-president of global purchasing,...
Thule has appointed Nis Gjendal as vice-president of global purchasing, effective Jan. 7, 2019. Gjendal has more than ten years of experience in various management positions in the area of global purchasing, including the position of global vice-president of procurement and sourcing at Nilfisk. He also has experience in complex ...
