
Bastien Grandgeorge is to become CEO of Decathlon France. The change will occur on Oct. 1, at the end of the term of co-CEOs Arnaud Gauquelin and Fabrice Lisardi, who will be taking up other posts in the company.
Grandgeorge has been working his way up over two decades, having started in 2002 as an intern on a company sales floor in the French city of Aix-en-Provence. As an executive, he has worked in business development, starting in the Czech Republic in 2012, then moving to Southeast Asia in 2014 and finally moving to Ireland in 2017.