Jean-Pierre Gingembre will represent Groupe Go Sport in the negotiations of Sports Trade Marketing International (STMI), according to a report in sport-guide.com. He will replace Benoit Verdier, who left STMI at the end of January to work for another international group outside of the sports sector. Gingembre joined Go Sport in 2004 after spending four years in the food retail business with Carrefour France. STMI is the joint purchasing operation formed by Go Sport and Hervis. Twinner joined it more recently.