Management:
+++ Cristiano Portas, who led Arena from 1999 to 2016, and then Stefanel, has become the CEO of Scarpe & Scarpe, one of the major Italian shoe retail chains
+++ Chris Doyle, a founder of the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) who worked for it for many years, has taken on a part-time job as marketing and sustainability director at Tenson, according to Sportfack
+++ CCM Hockey’s board of directors has a new member, Jennifer Botterill, who held broadcasting jobs in the U.S. and Canada for the last ten years with ties to the NHL, the Winter Olympics, and national and international women’s hockey and grassroots hockey competitions
+++ Kristin Frank, an expert in data-centric marketing and digital media who is CEO of AdPredictive, has joined the board of directors of Beachbody
Legal & Institutional:
+++ The German government is considering the generalization of the 2G restrictions introduced in some states, which would require that only vaccinated or previously infected people can enter non-essential retail stores
+++ The World Health Organization estimates that half a million more people would have died of Covid in Europe if there had been no vaccines against the virus
Marketing:
+++ Leki has signed a sponsorship agreement with Courtney Dauwalter, the American ultra-running champion
Trade Shows:
+++ The PGA of America and PGA Golf Exhibitions announced that more than 600 golf brands are expected to participate in-person at the PGA Show in Orlando, Florida next Han. 25-28
+++ Rossignol has rented a permanent showroom for its apparel collection in the TMC fashion center of Zurich, which will host the Swiss sportsdays.ch by ISPO on Dec. 13-14
+++ Nearly 10,000 people, mostly consumers, visited the new Feria del Deporte y la Vida Sana (Sports and Healthy Life Fair) in Cádiz on Nov. 18-20, leading the organizers to repeat the event in November 2022
