That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 100
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John Haugh, a former executive of Luxottica and Mars, will...
John Haugh, a former executive of Luxottica and Mars, will be the new president and chief executive of Iconix Brand Group, the company that owns many sports and fashion brands including Umbro, Starter, Ocean Pacific and Danskin. On April 1, he will take the place left vacant last August by ...
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Jesse Faen, a former Quiksilver manager who launched a surf...
Jesse Faen, a former Quiksilver manager who launched a surf fashion brand in the U.S., has become the marketing communications manager of Global Surf Industries
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Migros is transferring Reto Waidacher from the management of its...
Migros is transferring Reto Waidacher from the management of its own furniture store chain, Interio, to that of the Globus retail group, where he will act as buying director for foods and nonfoods
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Chas MacDonald will retire on April 30 as president and...
Chas MacDonald will retire on April 30 as president and chief executive of Costa, the fast-growing American producer of polarized sports sunglasses acquired by Essilor International in 2014. Costa's sales are projected to grow to more than $150 million this year from $30 million, when he joined the company in ...
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Vaude has announced two new executive appointments. Manfred Meindl, 34,...
Vaude has announced two new executive appointments. Manfred Meindl, 34, will be in charge of trade marketing, and Aaaron Bittner, 31, will act as apparel manager of the company. Meindl will continue to be responsible for online marketing, which he has led for five years with good results in social ...
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Replacing Peter Ahman, who is leaving the Finnish company, Risto...
Replacing Peter Ahman, who is leaving the Finnish company, Risto Salo has taken the position of chief executive of Oy Sultrade on an interim basis until the appointment of a permanent CEO in due time. Salo has been serving since last summer as a member of the board of directors ...
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Aigle has appointed Marie-Laure Rigal-Raffard as its new global marketing...
Aigle has appointed Marie-Laure Rigal-Raffard as its new global marketing and communications director. She comes from Lacoste, which is controlled by Maus Frères like Aigle. She previously worked for two other fashion houses, Lanvin and Louis Vuitton.
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Timberland EMEA has assigned Andy Hewat to the new position...
Timberland EMEA has assigned Andy Hewat to the new position of sales director in charge of distributors, reporting to Mariano Alonso, vice president of sales for the region. A former executive of Stylo, Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Reebok, Ugg and Scholl, Hewat had been running Timberland's operations in the U.K. ...
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Caroline Lanigan has been appointed brand manager of Domyos, the...
Caroline Lanigan has been appointed brand manager of Domyos, the private fitness brand of Decathlon, according to Fitness News Europe. She takes the place of Philippe Bernadat, who has been assigned to look into the group's possible entry into the Iranian market. Reportedly, Domyos generates annual sales of around €1.5 ...
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Brixton has appointed Ruud Vermey as general manager of Brixton...
Brixton has appointed Ruud Vermey as general manager of Brixton Europe. Vermey has more than 20 years of experience in the European market across sales, product and marketing, including senior roles with Vans Europe and Sole Technology, where he served as European product director. He will be based in the ...
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Jim Howard has been appointed as U.S. general manager...
Jim Howard has been appointed as U.S. general manager for Inov-8, the British brand of trail running footwear. He is to supervise U.S. sales, marketing and operations from the brand's regional head office near Boston. Howard started off in the sports business as the manager of The Runners Den, a ...
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Bryson White has been appointed as brand manager for Suunto...
Bryson White has been appointed as brand manager for Suunto in the Americas, to take care of the communication and marketing strategy for the sports instruments brand, which is owned by the Amer Sports group. While working with the product and executive teams in Finland, White's assignment is to raise ...
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Nathan Dopp has been appointed to lead Fjällräven and Hanwag...
Nathan Dopp has been appointed to lead Fjällräven and Hanwag in North America, after the departure of John Walbrecht last month to become president of Mountain Hardwear at the Columbia Sportswear group. Dopp already contributed to the rapid expansion of the Swedish outdoor brand in the U.S. market, as he ...
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Bergans of Norway has named Sven Mostögl as the new...
Bergans of Norway has named Sven Mostögl as the new sales director for its German subsidiary, which takes care of direct sales in the German, Austrian and Italian markets, and distribution in the rest of the European Union. He reports directly to Leif Holst-Liæker, chief executive of the Norwegian company. ...
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Reiner Hengstmann, who helped put together Puma's big sustainability program,...
Reiner Hengstmann, who helped put together Puma's big sustainability program, has joined Hugo Boss in the new position of head of global sustainability
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Roman Stepek, chief executive at Mountain Force, has left the...
Roman Stepek, chief executive at Mountain Force, has left the Swiss winter sports apparel company and is preparing to divest the remainder of his shares to existing shareholders in April. His job was taken over on an interim basis by Werner Matzner, Mountain Force's chief financial officer and one of ...
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Dan Trapp has joined Salomon as global commercial director for...
Dan Trapp has joined Salomon as global commercial director for apparel and gear, based in Annecy. He had been previously the sales manager for Hoka One One in Northern Europe since January 2015, based at Deckers Brands' office in London. Prior to that, he had spent nearly three years at ...
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Evan Lyendecker is promoted to marketing director of Confluence Outdoor,...
Evan Lyendecker is promoted to marketing director of Confluence Outdoor, the Canadian-based watersports company
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Two new managers – Juliette Delarue-Quairel and Toye Fritzell -...
Two new managers – Juliette Delarue-Quairel and Toye Fritzell - have joined Vista Outdoor's eyewear & sport protection unit at Suresnes near Paris, reporting to its president, Olivier Ciaravino. Delarue-Quairel has been named global sport marketing & communication manager for the Bollé, Cébé and Serengeti brands. Fritzell will act as ...
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As we reported in our last issue, the Tecnica Group...
As we reported in our last issue, the Tecnica Group has appointed new managers for all its brands as part of a reorganization intended to speed up its growth. The company has now announced the appointment of an industry veteran, Federico Sbrissa, in the role of strategic marketing manager of ...
