That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 125
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Signa Holding, which acquired a 75 percent interest in Karstadt...
Signa Holding, which acquired a 75 percent interest in Karstadt Sports last September, has appointed a new chief financial and operating officer for the chain, Michael Krauledat, to work with its chief executive, Simon Rider. The financial matters were previously handled by Miguel Müllenbach, who continues as finance manager of ...
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Antti Jääskeläinen, Amer Sports' chief development officer and senior vice...
Antti Jääskeläinen, Amer Sports' chief development officer and senior vice president for the group's supply chain and global operations, will leave the group and its executive board in mid-August. He has been with the company since 2009, but he has accepted a new position outside Amer Sports.
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Spanx, the Atlanta-based shape wear specialist, has appointed Jan Singer...
Spanx, the Atlanta-based shape wear specialist, has appointed Jan Singer as its new chief executive. Singer joins from Nike, where he was corporate vice-president of global apparel and corporate vice-president of global footwear. Singer, who is expected to join the company in early July, will report to Sara Blakely, Spanx' ...
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Johnson Outdoors has appointed Gianluca Bugli as director of sales...
Johnson Outdoors has appointed Gianluca Bugli as director of sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for the company's Diving business. These new responsibilities are in addition to Bugli's continued strategic oversight of European sales and marketing for the company's Marine Electronics business. Bugli has more than 25 ...
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Pentland Brands has appointed Richard Newcombe brand president for Lacoste...
Pentland Brands has appointed Richard Newcombe brand president for Lacoste Footwear. He takes the place of Andy Simister, who left the company last October and is now working for Wolverine Worldwide (see the article in this issue). Newcombe has been in the footwear industry for 27 years. He joined Pentland ...
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Sportslink, an Australian trade publication quoted by ispo.com, says that...
Sportslink, an Australian trade publication quoted by ispo.com, says that Darlene Beauchamp is leaving as Intersport Australia's group coordinator after more than a decade in office with the buying group, formerly known as The Team Sports Buying Group, indicating that she was the Intersport chief in the country. Intersport International ...
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Joachim Sjödin, who has been responsible for the Scandinavian market...
Joachim Sjödin, who has been responsible for the Scandinavian market at Peak Performance since 2012, sees his territorial coverage expanded in the new position of European sales director. In addition to the Nordic countries, he will also take care of France, Benelux and the German-speaking countries. Andreas Scheibe, who has ...
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Jürgen Habermann is going to leave the executive of board...
Jürgen Habermann is going to leave the executive of board of Sport Scheck, the German sporting goods retail chain, by the end of July. He has served on the board in various positions for the past ten years, most recently as director of sales and human resources, and he may ...
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Doug Boessen, former chief financial officer of Collective Brands, has...
Doug Boessen, former chief financial officer of Collective Brands, has joined Garmin as CFO and treasurer, reporting to the company's president and chief executive, Cliff Pemble. Boessen had worked previously at Arthur Andersen. Kevin Rauckmann, who has been Garmin's CFO and treasurer since 1999, will assist Boessen in the transition through ...
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Nordica USA's president, Willy Booker, has left the company to...
Nordica USA's president, Willy Booker, has left the company to become chief executive of Fischer Sports USA. Tecnica Group, the parent of Nordica internationally, has also announced that Reto Rindlisbacher has resigned his position as Nordica's international brand manager, effective Aug. 1. Rindlisbacher's successor will be named later this summer. ...
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Jan-Thomas Metge, managing director of Intersport Multichannel, the company that...
Jan-Thomas Metge, managing director of Intersport Multichannel, the company that has developed and orchestrated Intersport Germany's strategy for on- and offline retailing, has left the company at his own request. According to his profiles on the Xing and Linkedin websites, he has gone into business for himself with a consultancy ...
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Martin Kössler, a former export manager of Haglöfs who recently...
Martin Kössler, a former export manager of Haglöfs who recently resigned as secretary general of the Scandinavian Outdoor Group, has become chairman of the board at Bergans of Norway. He replaces Per Nessjøen, who is retiring. Two more new directors continue to sit on the board of the Norwegian marketer ...
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K2 has announced that Van Brinkerhoff, long-time group sales director,...
K2 has announced that Van Brinkerhoff, long-time group sales director, is retiring from his post this May. Brinkerhoff oversaw the sales of the Madshus, Atlas Snow-Shoe, Tubbs Showshoes and K2 Skate brands. The company has named Jason Tillinghast as the new sales director for K2 Outdoor, effective immediately. Brinkerhoff started ...
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Quilsilver has named its 7th independent director to its board,...
Quilsilver has named its 7th independent director to its board, Bernd Beetz, who acted recently as chief executive of Coty
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Accell North America has promoted Chris Speyer, currently chief operating...
Accell North America has promoted Chris Speyer, currently chief operating officer, to chief executive effective immediately. Speyer assumes leadership as Steve Meineke, who has led the organization for the past 10 years, leaves it to become president of Keen (see the related story in this issue).
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The supervisory board of Adidas AG has extended the mandates...
The supervisory board of Adidas AG has extended the mandates of two members of the executive board, Glenn Bennett and Robin Stalker, for a further three years until March 2018. Bennett, a U.S. citizen who is in charge of global operations, has been a board member since 1997. Stalker, who ...
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Crocs has appointed a new president, Andrew Rees, who founded...
Crocs has appointed a new president, Andrew Rees, who founded an led a global management consulting company for 14 years after working at Reebok International as vice president of strategic polanning and vice president of retail operations. Crocs' current chairman, Tom Smach, has agreed to act as interim chief executive ...
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SRAM Europe has announced that Robert Priest, its long-standing director...
SRAM Europe has announced that Robert Priest, its long-standing director of OE sales and dealer marketing, will leave the company in early June. In a statement, the company referred to his “declining kidney condition” and the required cures as the reason behind his decision to step away. John Nedeau, SRAM's ...
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Schöffel, the German marketer of outdoor and snow sports apparel,...
Schöffel, the German marketer of outdoor and snow sports apparel, has appointed a couple of new managers in the sales and product development departments. Effective July 1, Bernd Dietrich will switch from Vaude to Schöffel and will assume the new role of international sales manager, reporting to the brand manager, Christophe ...
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Salewa has appointed a new sales director, Olivier Gouby,...
Salewa has appointed a new sales director, Olivier Gouby, who has worked for Norrøna for eight years, most recently as European sales director. Based at the company's sales office in Bolzano, the Frenchman will report directly to the company's chief executive, Massimo Baratto. In another move, Bernhard Zhou, who worked ...
