That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 72
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Asics Corp. has recruited a new president and chief operating...
Asics Corp. has recruited a new president and chief operating officer, Yasuhito Hirota, to handle day-to-day management from March 29. He would help Motoi Oyama, a former president of the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry who became chief executive of the Japanese group in 2008 and took over ...
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Nike has appointed Dirk-Jan van Hameren as its new global...
Nike has appointed Dirk-Jan van Hameren as its new global marketing chief. With the title of vice president of global creative and marketing innovation, he will be in charge of brand communication, design, advanced concepts and digital marketing innovation. He will also handle event marketing. Van Hameren is a 25-year ...
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Ortlieb Sportartikel has appointed Jürgen Siegwarth as its new chief...
Ortlieb Sportartikel has appointed Jürgen Siegwarth as its new chief executive, with immediate effect. Siegwarth will be principally responsible for the marketing and sales divisions. He will be in charge of management alongside Hartmut Ortlieb, the company's founder, who will continue to head the technology and production division. Most recently, Siegwarth ...
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Seafolly, the Australian swimwear and beach lifestyle brand, has announced...
Seafolly, the Australian swimwear and beach lifestyle brand, has announced the appointment of Paul Kotrba as its new chief executive. Prior to joining Seafolly, Kotrba spent more than 15 years in New York City at Donna Karan and DKNY. Anthony Halas, who has led Seafolly since 1998, will remain as ...
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Sylvain Bouchès has been appointed as director for the Adidas...
Sylvain Bouchès has been appointed as director for the Adidas brand in France. He takes over from Nicolas Favre, who became general manager for Adidas France last November. Bouchès took up the position at the beginning of this year and he joined a seven-strong management committee. The Frenchman became part ...
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K2 has appointed a new brand president, John Colonna, who...
K2 has appointed a new brand president, John Colonna, who worked for Burton, Nike and other companies
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Uvex Sports will be represented in the U.S. and...
Uvex Sports will be represented in the U.S. and Canada by Fischer Skis
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Karstadt Warenhaus has hired two more managers to support its...
Karstadt Warenhaus has hired two more managers to support its omni-channel retail strategy. Marco Werner became chief digital officer at the start of last week, in charge of Karstadt.de and customer relationship management. He previously held similar jobs at Tchibo and Fressnapf. Jens Diekmann started with Karstadt at the beginning ...
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Vincent Isichei has resigned as German country manager for JD...
Vincent Isichei has resigned as German country manager for JD Sports Fashion. Simon Rider, the former manager of Foot Locker Europe who ran Karstadt Sports until the end of 2016, will reportedly run JD's German operation on an interim basis along with Isichei's brother Marc. The two brothers Vincent and ...
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Kering, the parent company of Puma, Volcom and a raft...
Kering, the parent company of Puma, Volcom and a raft of luxury goods brands, has appointed a new “chief client and digital officer,” Grégory Boutté, who has had an interesting career. After working in brand management at Procter & Gamble, Boutté joined a French online auction start-up that was acquired ...
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Ulf Bjerknes, a veteran of the Norwegian sporting goods industry,...
Ulf Bjerknes, a veteran of the Norwegian sporting goods industry, has been appointed to a new position as chief operating officer of XXL ASA, the big Norwegian sports retailer that is expanding to new countries. He did an excellent job in terms of revenues and profits with two other important ...
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Yves Corthésy, chief financial officer at Airesis, the Swiss holding...
Yves Corthésy, chief financial officer at Airesis, the Swiss holding company for Le Coq Sportif and Movement, has decided to leave the company from the start of March after 12 years. Corthésy explained in a statement that Airesis and its largest investment, Le Coq Sportif, have reached an important phase ...
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As part of a personnel reshuffle ahead of a planned...
As part of a personnel reshuffle ahead of a planned expansion, Polygiene has promoted its chief financial officer, Ulrika Björk, to the position of chief executive, taking over the post from Christian von Uthmann. The former CEO will now fill the position of vice president of new ventures and strategies ...
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Only a year after leaving Gresvig, Dag A. Johansen has...
Only a year after leaving Gresvig, Dag A. Johansen has made a return to the big Norwegian retail group. Together with Lars Tomas Tveit, who becomes chain director of Intersport in the country, Johansen will lead Gresvig's chains of G-Sport and G-Max stores. Both managers had similar responsibilities before. Johansen, ...
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Eagle Creek has strengthened its European team with the addition...
Eagle Creek has strengthened its European team with the addition of three new managers in key positions at its headquarters in Midleton, Ireland. The producer of travel bags and backpacks from southern California has appointed Parvati Sauer to the newly created position of eCom specialist, Benjamin Rex as its new ...
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Ortholite has hired Nino Gilarde, a health care industry veteran,...
Ortholite has hired Nino Gilarde, a health care industry veteran, as its chief financial officer
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The finance director of the Calida Group, Thomas Stöcklin, will...
The finance director of the Calida Group, Thomas Stöcklin, will leave the Swiss company at the end of June 2018. Calida has started the search for a successor to the 47-year-old manager, who joined as a controller in 2005. The Calida Group owns the Calida, Aubade, Millet, Oxbow, Eider and ...
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Jason Boling has resigned from Cherokee Global Brands, the new...
Jason Boling has resigned from Cherokee Global Brands, the new owner of Hi-Tec, after five years in the position of financial director. Steven Brink has been appointed as his replacement. Brink previously worked as head of finance for an assortment of public and private apparel companies including seven years at ...
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Peter Cuneo, chairman of the board of directors at the...
Peter Cuneo, chairman of the board of directors at the Iconix Brand Group, has assumed the role of executive chairman. He has been on the board since October 2006 and served as interim chief executive from August 2015 to April 2016. In his new role, he will focus on evaluating ...
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With the new year, the heads of Bike Europe's editorial...
With the new year, the heads of Bike Europe's editorial team are switching roles. After more than 21 years in the post, Jack Oortwijn will hand over the position of chief editor to the magazine's younger, 50-year-old deputy editor-in-chief, Jan Willem van Schaik. Oortwijn, 63, will take over his position, ...
