The shareholders of Intersport International Corporation (IIC) have unanimously elected Sami Kiiski, CEO of Intersport Finland, to the IIC board of management during an extraordinary general meeting of the IIC shareholders. Kiiski succeeds Lars Kristian Lindberg as the representative of the Nordic organizations. He will hold his office until the next elections at the 2025 Annual General Meeting.
With the 2022/2023 winter season, Sport 2000 has begun to implement the new SkiExperts concept for the group’s winter sports specialists in Germany. The first 52 SkiExperts stores receive special human resources, marketing and procurement support. The service modules are coordinated with one another to offer the best consumer experience ...
Intersport Germany has posted record sales of €3.31 billion for the fiscal year 2021/2022, the highest figure in the company’s history. Sounds familiar? Precisely the same result was reported a few days ago by competitor Sport 2000. Intersport Germany emerged from the 2021/2022 fiscal year, which ended on Sept. 30, ...
Nine-and-a-half years after acquiring the sports fashion footwear chain as part of its deal for the Recklinghausen, Germany-based Runners Point Group, Foot Locker has decided to shutter Sidestep’s operation that currently consists of several dozen stores across Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. In February 2019, Foot Locker operated 80 ...
According to Shop Eat Surf, Jeff McGuane, president of Fox Racing, has been promoted at Vista Outdoor to lead a restructured Action Sports division, which includes Fox Racing, Bell, Giro, Blackburn, Krash, Copilot and Raskullz. Vista Outdoor acquired Fox Racing in August 2022. According to the same media source, McGuane’s ...
Specialty footwear and lifestyle chain The Athlete’s Foot (TAF) has announced the expansion of its marketing team and the promotion of two key executives: Darius Billings has been promoted to VP of marketing, community engagement and StAART and Cassidy Dansberry has been promoted to marketing manager, effective immediately. Billings worked ...
Source: Blizzard-Tecnica Markus Zeman-Wurzer Blizzard-Tecnica, part of the Italian Tecnica Group, has announced that Markus Zeman-Wurzer, most recently working 18 years in various positions at Salomon, has succeeded Tom Rakuscha as sales and marketing manager at Blizzard-Tecnica in Austria. Rakuscha has since taken on an international and ...
