Executive Changes – Page 58
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Change of the guard at Burton
Burton Snowboards has announced that John Lacy will be the company’s sole chief executive. He has shared this role over the past 18 months with Donna Carpenter, who will now take over the position of chairperson of Burton’s board of directors from her late husband and company founder, Jake Burton ...
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New CEO for Rapala
In the midst of reforms to turn around the business, Rapala VMC has appointed Nicolas Warchalowski as its new chief executive, effective from March 1, 2020. He has had an extensive career in international consumer businesses, heading up companies such as BabyBjörn, Peak Performance and Haglöfs.
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New top managers at Wolverine
Wolverine World Wide 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 ...
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New top managers at Under Armour
Under Armour has promoted Colin Browne from chief supply chain officer, the post he attained in 2017, to chief operating officer. In addition to the supply chain and procurement, he will now be overseeing demand planning, distribution, IT, business processes, corporate real estate, asset protection and sustainability. Browne joined the ...
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Markus Bötsch will leave Jack Wolfskin
After almost 30 years, Markus Bötsch will leave on July 31 Jack Wolfskin,the German outdoor brand acquired by Callaway Golf at the beginning of lastyear. Bötsch is currently a member of the management board, responsible forsales strategies. He started out as a sales assistant in 1991, then becamea sales representative ...
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Puma loses its sustainability chief
Michael Bennett, who has been running Puma’s sustainability department for the past four years, handling also part of the supply chain, has left the company to pursue opportunities elsewhere. Puma says it is in the process of reorganizing his responsibilities. He was reporting recently to Anne Laure Descours, who became ...
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Bertelsmann’s CEO is slated to be Adidas’ new chairman
The supervisory board of the Adidas Group has recommended the election of Thomas Rabe, who has been the chairman and chief executive of Bertelsmann since 2012, as its new chairman at the company’s annual meeting on May 9. Bertelsmann is a global German media, education and service group whose Ebitda ...
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Former Sports Direct “elevates” itself
The Frasers Group, the British company previously called Sports Direct International, is implementing in two big ways the “elevation” policy announced by its controversial chief executive and main shareholder, Mike Ashley. It has just acquired a 12.5 percent stake in Mulberry, a British publicly quoted brand of handbags and other ...
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New head for Danish Sportmaster
Sportmaster of Denmark has found a replacement for Sofie Lindahl-Jessen, who recently resigned as chief executive after less than a year in the post. Andreas Holm – a former clerk and manager at the Sportmaster store in Strøget, Denmark – is stepping in and will work to ease the Danish ...
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Tim Boyle is chairman of Columbia
At its meeting of Jan. 24, the board of directors of Columbia Sportswear appointed as its chairman the company’s long-standing president and chief executive, Tim Boyle, who is now 70 years old. He takes the place on the board that was previously occupied by his “tough mother,” Gert Boyle, who ...
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New management for Kjus
Kjus, the Swiss ski, golf, and lifestyle apparel company acquired by Acushnet Holdings in July 2019, has made Brooke Mackenzie president of worldwide operations. A skier and golfer herself, Mackenzie joined Kjus in 2012, taking care of the brand’s North American operations. She used to own a real estate brokerage, ...
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Magnus Wedhammar leaves Sanuk
Magnus Wedhammar has left Sanuk. He had been the surf-inspired footwear brand’s general manager since July 2016, when it moved within California from Irvine to Goleta, the location of Deckers’ headquarters. Deckers purchased Sanuk – founded by Jeff Kelley in 1997 – for $120 million in cash in 2011. Before ...
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Timberland’s global brand president resigns
Jim Pisani has resigned as global brand president of Timberland and is moving to the Midwest of the U.S. to be closer to his family. Martino Scabbia Guerrini, group president for EMEA at Timberland’s parent, VF Corp., will occupy Pisani’s post until a successor is found, working with Pisani to ...
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Primaloft consolidates its sales management
To consolidate its North American, European and Asian sales under single management, Primaloft has expanded Chris Humphris’ purview as vice president of sales from the Americas to the world. Humphris has been dealing in sales at Primaloft for more than 20 years. He also spent 16 years with Concept III ...
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Intersport Germany appoints new CFO
The supervisory board of Intersport Germany has appointed Thomas Storck, 51, as the new retail cooperative’s new chief financial officer. A graduate in business administration and information technology, he will take up his new position in May. After various management posts at companies such as Real SB-Warenhaus, Storck took over ...
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Andreas Heep leaves Adidas
Andreas Heep, senior director of sales for fashion products in Central Europe at Adidas, has left the company at his own request, after working there for 22 years. He is said to want to follow new projects in the future. His successor is Philip Clas, who has been with the ...
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ArticleAnother new chief executive for XXL
After issuing yet another profit warning for the fourth quarter of 2019, the board of directors of XXL ASA announced earlier this week that it has appointed Pål Wibe as the new chief executive of the company, which is the largest sporting goods retailer in the Nordic countries.
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Lululemon Athletica has appointed Nikki Neuburger to the new post...
Lululemon Athletica has appointed Nikki Neuburger to the new post of chief brand officer. Neuburger is a former global vice-president for Nike Running. She spent 14 years at Nike and has worked at Uber for the last two years. Her appointment takes effect on Jan. 20. Her international experience should ...
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Boardriders confirms a report in fashionnetwork.com that its general manager...
Boardriders confirms a report in fashionnetwork.com that its general manager for wholesale in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Jean-Louis Rodrigues, is leaving the group. The former European sales manager of the Billabong International group was elected last summer as the new president of Eurosima, the European association of boardsports ...
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David Conn, a brand executive of 25 years' experience with...
David Conn, a brand executive of 25 years' experience with a huge curriculum, is the new director and chief executive of Sequential Brands Group. He is replacing Chad Wagenheim, president, who took charge temporarily in October of last year. Wagenheim will now be working in partnership with Conn. Conn was ...
