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Richard “Dick” Donahue, a former president of Nike, passed away...
Richard “Dick” Donahue, a former president of Nike, passed away on Sept. 15 at the age of 88. A trial lawyer with close links to the Kennedy family, Donahue became a Nike director in 1978 and helped to map out the brand's international forays in the late 'eighties. He became ...
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Ernst Albert Hans Holzapfel, who served as president of the...
Ernst Albert Hans Holzapfel, who served as president of the German sporting goods industry federation (BSI) from 1991 to 2007, passed away on June 23 at the age of 79. While running the family company, Friedola, in its fourth generation, Holzapfel occupied other honorary posts including the chairmanship of the ...
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A member of the Oregon track team that accompanied the...
A member of the Oregon track team that accompanied the start of Phil Knight's business, James Gorman was among the U.S. industry pioneers who contributed to the rise of Nike as well as several other brands in the U.S. market. A sub-four minute miler at the University of Oregon, he ...
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Francesco Delladio passed away on June 29, at the age...
Francesco Delladio passed away on June 29, at the age of 88. He worked all his life for La Sportiva, the Italian company founded in 1928 by his father Narciso Delladio, expanding its presence internationally. La Sportiva is currently run by Francesco's son, Lorenzo Delladio, and by his granddaughter, Giulia ...
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Harrison Greenberg, 19-year-old son of Michael Greenberg, president of Skechers...
Harrison Greenberg, 19-year-old son of Michael Greenberg, president of Skechers USA, died unexpectedly on April 6 while on a vacation in Thailand. His death was attributed by the company to a tragic and sudden choking accident. Introduced since the age of 15 to the family's business, he had been working ...
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Literally at the end of the Ispo Beijing show, Knut...
Literally at the end of the Ispo Beijing show, Knut Jaeger passed away. This pioneer of the Chinese outdoor industry died in Hong Kong, where he was based, at the age of 72, right after coming back from Ispo. Jaeger had a focus on China since in the late 1980s, ...
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John Forzani, the former professional footballer who founded and built...
John Forzani, the former professional footballer who founded and built up Canada's largest sporting goods retailer until its sale to Canadian Tire three years ago, died in a California hospital on Oct. 31 at the age of 67, following a massive heart attack. Among other retail operations, Forzani was the ...
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Bob Carr, a highly respected American journalist who we knew...
Bob Carr, a highly respected American journalist who we knew well, died on Sept. 28 of a heart attack at the age of 72, after many years of valiantly fighting against a series of health challenges. He became the editor of Sporting Goods Business when the U.S. magazine was founded ...
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Franz Völkl, former chief executive of the famous ski brand...
Franz Völkl, former chief executive of the famous ski brand and inventor of carbon technology for skis, passed away at the age of 87. The Völkl company, one of the pioneers of modern skis, was founded by Franz Völkl's grandfather in 1895. He assumed the management in 1952, succeeding his ...
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Stephanie L. Kwolek, the DuPont chemist who invented Kevlar, died...
Stephanie L. Kwolek, the DuPont chemist who invented Kevlar, died after a brief illness on June 18. She was 90. Initially, she wanted to be a fashion designer. The light, sturdy and flexible material that she developed from a liquid crystalline solution in 1965, when she was 42, is now ...
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Jacques Altimani, a highly energetic and well respected executive who...
Jacques Altimani, a highly energetic and well respected executive who led Head-Tyrolia in France for many years, passed away a few days ago, after a long illness. He was 69 years old. After acting as French distributor for Moncler and Ramy's ski bindings, Altimani set up Head's French operation in ...
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Günter Brendle, a former president of Puma's executive board, passed...
Günter Brendle, a former president of Puma's executive board, passed away at the age of 70 on March 27. He joined the Cat in the early 1980s as sales director. He expanded the company's international activities, especially in Asia, and helped the late Rudolf Dassler to organize Puma's initial public ...
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Hobie Alter, also known as the Henry Ford of the...
Hobie Alter, also known as the Henry Ford of the surfboard industry, died on March 29 at his home in Palm Desert, California at the age of 80. A surfer himself, he started out crafting handmade 9-foot balsa wood surfboards for his friends in the garage of his family's summer ...
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An emblematic personality in the Swedish outdoor industry, Åke Nordin,...
An emblematic personality in the Swedish outdoor industry, Åke Nordin, has passed away at the age of 77. He was the hard-headed Swedish entrepreneur who built his own backpack at 14 and founded Fjällräven in Örnsköldsvik in 1960. The company subsequently diversified its range and bought other outdor companies to ...
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Peter Wahle, who acted as chief executive of Sport Eybl...
Peter Wahle, who acted as chief executive of Sport Eybl & Sports Experts from 2007 to 2012, died a few days ago of a heart attack. He was 53 years old. Wahle ran Austria's biggest sporting goods retailer after occupying executive positions at two major mail order catalog houses, Quelle ...
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Sport Partner from the Netherlands has reported the death of...
Sport Partner from the Netherlands has reported the death of Albertus Cornelis Johannes at the age of 78. Commonly known as “Ab” van Bergen, he ran his eponymous distribution company, specializing in camping and winter sports. He worked as a buyer for the former Golden Team cooperative of retailers, and ...
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We have learnt that Marianne Hoffmann passed away at the...
We have learnt that Marianne Hoffmann passed away at the age of 93 on Aug. 15. As the sister of the late Käthe Dassler, she was the sister-in-law of Adi Dassler, the late founder of Adidas. She founded her own sporting goods store together with her husband, Hans, in Herzogenaurach ...
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Anton “Toni” Arnsteiner, the Austrian who launched the Blizzard brand...
Anton “Toni” Arnsteiner, the Austrian who launched the Blizzard brand in 1953, has passed away in Mittersill, where his company has been located from the start. He was 88 years old. He started making skis at his parents' table factory soon after coming back wounded from the war in 1945. ...
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Richard (Dick) Kazmaier died of a heart and lung disease...
Richard (Dick) Kazmaier died of a heart and lung disease in Boston on Aug. 1. He was 82 years old. The former college football champion formed, in 1975, Kazmaier Associates, a company that acted as a distributor for Puma in the U.S. for many years. He also served as chief ...
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Sport Partner reports that Stephan Lub, a public relations manager...
Sport Partner reports that Stephan Lub, a public relations manager in the Dutch sports industry, died from a heart attack earlier this month at just 43. Lub became known in the Dutch sports market as head of corporate communications for Nike Benelux, and for several years also for Nike Northern ...
