The Rossignol Group has made François Goulet its global director, according to sport-guide.com. The appointment follows the departure of the vice president for Europe, François Benaben, after more than eight years with the group. The group’s president and chief executive, Bruno Cercley, explained to sport-guide.com that “it makes sense in the current economic context to take a global approach to our sales.” Goulet, he continued, will be “coming to Europe often” to “take stock of needs and build the best organization.” Goulet has been serving as Rossignol’s president for North America for a little less than three years but is in fact a veteran of the group, having help that same presidency from 1989 to 2010. He spent the intervening decade at Coalision, serving as a senior vice president, and then at VF Corp., serving as overall vice president and general manager for Canada and as vice president and general manager for The North Face. Rossignol’s global vice president of human resources, Stephen Le Bot, also left the company this month. According to Cercley, Rossignol hopes to restart its factories in the French cities of Sallanches and Nevers, as well as the racing workshop in Moirans, next week, but things will take longer in Italy, where lockdowns will continue through early May. “The enemy is inventory,” he said to sport-guide.com, and “cash is king for the coming weeks.”

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