It's people's business and we cover it. Find here the latest updates about personnel changes and read interviews with influential movers and shakers from the sports business.
2024-03-08T06:39:00+00:00By Claudia Klingelhöfer
Puma’s Chief Product Officer talks in an exclusive SGI Europe interview about overcoming biases in the sporting goods industry.
2024-03-07T08:43:00+00:00By Regina Henkel
Discover how Kari Traa’s General Manager navigates gender equality, community-building and the empowerment of women.
2024-03-07T08:40:00+00:00By Claudia Klingelhöfer
We spoke to Polygiene-CEO Ulrika Björk. She says ”I encourage diversity, but it will never come with a cost of performance or for the sake of.”
2024-02-27T08:49:00+00:00By Regina Henkel
Intersport International, the global sporting goods retailer, concluded the year 2023 with retail sales totaling EUR 13.7 billion.
2024-02-23T13:59:00+00:00By Jesper Johansson
Sports Direct is expanding its offerings and launching a new Outdoor concept, starting in Cardiff, the retail giant’s flagship location.
2024-02-19T08:24:00+00:00By Vlad Vorotnikov
An interview with Maxim Vinogradov, VP of Russia’s retailer Kant.
2024-03-17T09:12:00+00:00
360 Padel Group has hired Sascha Beyer as its CEO, as we have learned from CMDsport and confirmed on the blog of one of the group’s divisions, Padel Nuestro.
2024-03-15T15:43:00+00:00
Marissa Pardini, Vans’ Chief Product and Merchandising Officer, has announced her departure from the brand by the end of March. This follows a series of turnovers within VF Corp.
2024-03-15T08:26:00+00:00
After a long-standing and successful sales partnership with three agencies in Germany, eyewear and helmet specialist Smith, part of Safilo Group, is opening the next chapter for the brand in the German market. Therefore, the brand has welcomed Michael Horstmann and Florian Krach to its sales force. A particularly strong ...
2024-03-14T06:42:00+00:00
Under Armour (UA) founder Kevin Plank, the current Executive Chair of the Board, is set to again become President and CEO of the Baltimore, Maryland company on April 1. At the same time, Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian, an independent UA director since 2018 and lead director since 2020, will become ...
2024-03-13T04:17:00+00:00
With the release of its fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results, Allbirds announced the appointment of Chief Operating Officer Joe Vernachio as its new CEO and member of the Board of Directors, effective March 15, 2024. He succeeds Joey Zwillinger, co-founder and CEO, who will continue to serve ...
2024-03-12T19:07:00+00:00
As Brooks Running announces that Jim Weber will step down as CEO after 23 years, the company also unveils that Dan Sheridan, who currently serves as the company’s President and Chief Operating Officer, will take over the position effective April 26, 2024.
2023-03-14T15:10:00+00:00
Franco Vaccari, a former shareholder of the Tecnica Group, passed away unexpectedly on March 11, 2023, at 83, according to Tecnica Group information. Vaccari was one of the most important entrepreneurs in the history of the so-called Sportsystem district of Montebelluna in the Northern Italian Treviso province.
2023-01-05T10:08:00+00:00
Former German ski racer Rosi Mittermaier has died. With her two gold medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, “Gold Rosi,” as she was subsequently known, mesmerized all of Germany. Her family told Bayerischer Rundfunk that Mittermaier fell asleep peacefully at the age of 72 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Jan. ...
2023-01-03T14:56:00+00:00
Ken Block, the co-founder of DC Shoes, died in a snowmobile accident in Utah. He was 55 years old.
2024-03-18T13:17:00+00:00
Rip Curl has made waves in the surfing world with its latest signing of eight-time world surfing champion Stephanie Gilmore. The groundbreaking agreement, valued in the millions, spans eight years, coinciding with Gilmore’s planned sabbatical from the Championship Tour.
2024-03-13T12:34:00+00:00
The sports-apparel brand Kappa, we learn from Diffusion Sport, has become the technical sponsor of WomanGoal, which describes itself as the “first international platform created to promote women’s soccer” and as specializing in “talent recruitment, training, asset creation and business building for women’s soccer at a global level.”
2024-03-06T15:47:00+00:00
British heritage menswear brand Ben Sherman is entering the golf apparel market with its first golf-focused collection. The company has also announced the signing of American pro golfer and PGA Tour player Denny McCarthy as its first tour ambassador.
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