That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 114
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Galvin Green, the Swedish golf clothing brand, has promoted Andrew...
Galvin Green, the Swedish golf clothing brand, has promoted Andrew Creed to president of Galvin Green USA. Creed, who was formerly national sales manager, will expand the company's domestic operations, which will include the opening of a new U.S. headquarters in Avon, Connecticut this July. Creed joined Galvin Green when ...
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Wintersteiger says that Markus Würcher has been appointed head of...
Wintersteiger says that Markus Würcher has been appointed head of sales and product management for its Sports Business Unit and for two others within the group, Seedmech and Woodtech, implementing the decisions mentioned in our last issue. Wolfgang Berghammer, former head of Wintersteiger's Sports BU, left the company in March ...
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Viking Footwear has appointed a new country manager for Denmark,...
Viking Footwear has appointed a new country manager for Denmark, Tom Tinning, who takes the place of Thomas Vangsaard, now in charge of Denmark for Ecco. Tinning, 45, started off as a sales rep for Nike and later became Danish sales manager for the big athletic brand. He worked for ...
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Leif Holst-Liæker will take over as chief executive of Bergans...
Leif Holst-Liæker will take over as chief executive of Bergans Fritid, the supplier of outdoor products known also as Bergans of Norway, during the fourth quarter of 2015. Holst-Liæker, 36, worked for five years at McKinsey & Company and then for eight years in various functions at Bertel O. Steen, ...
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Foot Locker's board of directors has elected its lead director,...
Foot Locker's board of directors has elected its lead director, Nicholas DiPaolo, to the position of chairman. He succeeds the retiring Ken C. Hicks. DiPaolo, who is 73 years old, has been on Foot Locker's board since 2002. He left as a director of R.G. Barry Corporation last September.
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Chris Patsch started as European marketing manager for the Burton...
Chris Patsch started as European marketing manager for the Burton and Anon brands at the beginning of May. Patsch is heading up the marketing team at Burton's office in Innsbruck, reporting to the company's European general manager, Hermann Kapferer. He has been with Burton since 2010, starting as team marketing ...
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Wolverine Worldwide has a new chief financial officer. Michael D....
Wolverine Worldwide has a new chief financial officer. Michael D. Stornant, a 49-year-old executive who has been with the group for 19 years, assumes the role of senior vice president, CFO and treasurer, with effect from June 12. He served most recently as vice president of corporate finance, after handling ...
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Jon Parsons, who supported Srixon Sports Europe's rapid expansion for...
Jon Parsons, who supported Srixon Sports Europe's rapid expansion for about 12 years, is no longer involved with the company. He effectively supervised marketing for the brand in the U.K. and Europe, helping Srixon to raise its U.K. market share in balls from 0.3 percent to more than 30 percent ...
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Sport Partner reports that Terence Abrahamsen is taking over from...
Sport Partner reports that Terence Abrahamsen is taking over from the start of June as manager for Sport 2000 at ANWR Garant Nederland Sport, after stints as account manager at Timberland and product manager at Puma Benelux, as well as buyer at the Coach sports lifestyle chain and category manager ...
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Susanne Fischer has stopped acting as European marketing manager of...
Susanne Fischer has stopped acting as European marketing manager of Cocona, and a successor has not been appointed
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Alexis Maillet has been appointed as European marketing manager for...
Alexis Maillet has been appointed as European marketing manager for Electric, the brand of eyewear, helmets, goggles and other accessories, from the start of May. Maillet formally heads up marketing in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), a position that has been vacant for a year. Based at Electric's ...
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Lululemon Athletica has announced that Delaney Schweitzer, executive vice president...
Lululemon Athletica has announced that Delaney Schweitzer, executive vice president of global retail, has resigned from the company, effective May 29. Schweitzer is one of the company's pioneers. She joined Lululemon in 2002, and helped the yoga-inspired athletic apparel firm grow from one store in Canada to more than 300 ...
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Wolverine Worldwide announced that Gene McCarthy, who has been president...
Wolverine Worldwide announced that Gene McCarthy, who has been president of the Merrell brand since August 2013, has left the company. His functions are being taken over on a temporary basis by Jim Gabel, president of the company's Performance Group, which also includes Chaco and Saucony. Gabel came to Wolverine ...
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Dean Polic has been appointed as country manager for Mammut...
Dean Polic has been appointed as country manager for Mammut in Germany, starting from June. He has been with the company for 14 years and is currently head of marketing for the Swiss outdoor brand in Germany. His predecessor, Ernst Schweble, who has been building up Mammut in Germany since ...
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O'Neill has appointed Pia Kaipainen, previously at RVCA Europe, The...
O'Neill has appointed Pia Kaipainen, previously at RVCA Europe, The Program brands and Nikita, to become its social media manager, based at the board sports brand's global head office in the Netherlands
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Lowa is reinforcing its investments in Asia with the appointment...
Lowa is reinforcing its investments in Asia with the appointment of Matthias Preussel in the new position of sales director for Asia-Pacific. He previously worked as head of sales at Mammut, helping to set up a Chinese subsidiary for the Swiss outdoor brand, supervising its operations in South Korea and ...
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Jörg Aumüller is reportedly taking over as country manager for...
Jörg Aumüller is reportedly taking over as country manager for German and Austria at Helly Hansen in the middle of May. The job was previously handled by Harry Schedlbauer, who has left in January to become global commercial manager at Atomic Austria. Aumüller has been in the outdoor and sports ...
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Black Diamond Inc. has made a number of changes in...
Black Diamond Inc. has made a number of changes in its design and product development departments to spur innovation in its apparel and equipment categories. Doug Heinrich, a former executive of Patagonia and Icon Health & Fitness, has been promoted from vice president of equipment to the position of senior ...
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Patrick Pons de Vier, former brand manager for Salomon, is...
Patrick Pons de Vier, former brand manager for Salomon, is head of global footwear at Brooks, the U.S. running footwear company, starting last month. Pons de Vier spent about 18 years at Salomon, starting in 1996 in marketing for snowboarding products. He was leading strategic business development for Salomon's winter ...
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Heather Jackson, described as an expert in IT and change...
Heather Jackson, described as an expert in IT and change management, has become a non-executive director of JD Sports Fashion, parent company of Blacks, Millets and other outdoor retail chains in the U.K. She is also a non-executive director of Ikano Bank from Sweden, where she chairs the remuneration and ...
