That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 134
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Bernd Wahler is leaving Adidas to become president of the...
Bernd Wahler is leaving Adidas to become president of the VfB Stuttgart football team, where he played in his youth, in September. Aged 55, he has been acting lately as senior vice president of innovation at the Big a, responsible for technology. Wahler first joined Adidas in 1987 and worked ...
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Dakine has announced that François Carrete has stepped down as...
Dakine has announced that François Carrete has stepped down as president, following the completion of the sale of the company to Altamont Capital Partners on July 23. Carrete had been president for the past 18 months. Leslie Lane will assume the role of chairman and chief executive. Lane has served ...
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Toni Sailer, the brand of snow sports apparel, has appointed...
Toni Sailer, the brand of snow sports apparel, has appointed a new marketing director replacing Markus Schneider who left the company. He has been replaced by Andreas Lehnig, who previously worked for Gabor, a German marketer of footwear, where he was in charge of new media and market research.
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Asics has appointed Stefan Heinrich to the newly created role...
Asics has appointed Stefan Heinrich to the newly created role of head of emerging markets, effective Aug. 1, following the athletic equipment company's creation of a new region covering emerging markets. Heinrich is currently general manager at Asics Austria, where he is responsible for Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia ...
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K-Swiss has appointed Eric Sarin as its new vice president...
K-Swiss has appointed Eric Sarin as its new vice president of product, reporting directly to Barney Waters, K-Swiss' chief marketing officer. Sarin will oversee all aspects of the brand's product design, development and strategy globally and will be based in Westlake Village, California. He brings to K-Swiss 17 years of ...
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Marian Homburger has been appointed European marketing coordinator of Line...
Marian Homburger has been appointed European marketing coordinator of Line Skis and Full Tilt, K2's specialty brands for freeride skis and boots, respectively. He has replaced Korbinian Resenberger. The 26-year-old will be in charge of all marketing activities and of sponsored athletes. Before joining K2 Europe in his new role, ...
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At Uvex Sports, Christian Wild has taken the position of...
At Uvex Sports, Christian Wild has taken the position of sales director for the German market, replacing Günther Kocher who will retire at the age of 65, after 16 years of working for the manufacturer of glasses and helmets. The 38-year-old Wild held a similar position at Dalbello Völkl Ski, ...
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IC Companys, the Danish-based parent company of Peak Performance and...
IC Companys, the Danish-based parent company of Peak Performance and other sportswear brands, has appointed Mads Ryder as its new chief executive, describing him as an experience and international-oriented manager with talent and flair for trademarks and branding. The 50-year-old took over on Aug. 1 from Niels Mikkelsen, who has ...
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+++ Tim Phipps has left Fred Perry, where he was...
+++ Tim Phipps has left Fred Perry, where he was in charge of footwear, to become Nike's European category sales director for Nike Sportswear, focusing on the young fashion segment +++ Oliver Müller, field sales manager of Amer Sports in Switzerland, is being promoted country manager, replacing the retiring Andi ...
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Puma has named Torsten Hochstetter, 46, to the newly created...
Puma has named Torsten Hochstetter, 46, to the newly created position of global creative director, effective July 15, 2013. Based in Herzogenaurach, Hochstetter will report to the brand's chief executive, Björn Gulden. He will be responsible for designing, creating and developing Puma's Sport Performance and Sport Lifestyle collections, covering all ...
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After only six months in his new function as joint...
After only six months in his new function as joint managing director of Sport 2000 Germany, a subsidiary of ANWR, Daniel Hermann is leaving the company for personal reasons. ANWR says the move was due to recent developments in his personal environment and had no connection with his tasks or ...
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Boa Technology has appointed Alois Badegruber to run its sales,...
Boa Technology has appointed Alois Badegruber to run its sales, marketing and customer service operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, after several years of steady growth in the region. The Austrian manager started off at W.L. Gore Associates and worked for eight years at Salomon, where he was ...
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Icebug has appointed Evan Wert as North American director of...
Icebug has appointed Evan Wert as North American director of sales and marketing, for both Icebug Footwear and ArchFlex Insoles. Wert joins Icebug at a crucial time for the company as it is restructuring its North American operations and beginning the distribution there of its proprietary traction footwear and ArchFlex ...
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Fletcher Leisure has appointed its first country manager in Europe...
Fletcher Leisure has appointed its first country manager in Europe outside the U.K. to market its Sunice line of outerwear and its Tommy Hilfiger and AUR collections of golf clothing. Ingo Neufink will be responsible for sales of the Canadian company's products in Germany, reporting to Jon Camp, managing director ...
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Icebreaker has appointed Rob Fyfe as its new executive chairman...
Icebreaker has appointed Rob Fyfe as its new executive chairman to replace Noel Todd, who is stepping down after 18 years. Fyfe will assume the new role at the outdoor clothing brand in September, after serving on the company's board for 12 months. Fyfe led Air New Zealand as chief ...
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Wintersteiger, the Austrian supplier of ski services and storing solutions...
Wintersteiger, the Austrian supplier of ski services and storing solutions and owner of the Boot Doc brand of insoles, has appointed Günter Kostrhon international sales director of its sports division. Before he joined Thalinger-Lange, the Austrian wholesale trader of bicycle- and sports-related products, Kostrhon worked for Intersport and Sport Service ...
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Hamish Ogilvie will join Implus Corporation's European office as director...
Hamish Ogilvie will join Implus Corporation's European office as director of sales in August, coinciding with its takeover of the distribution of the group's brands in the U.K. Ogilvie comes from Grangers, which previously distributed Implus' brands in its home market. Meanwhile, Grangers' new joint venture with BNS in Germany ...
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Creating new positions and new layers within its European management...
Creating new positions and new layers within its European management structure, Amer Sports has appointed country managers for France and the U.K. Yves Weber started in June as country manager for France after a long experience at Reckitt Benckiser, where he gradually moved up to European key account director. Domenico ...
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The Tecnica Group is placing a new general manager at...
The Tecnica Group is placing a new general manager at the head of its operations in France. From Oct. 1, Lucien Hateville will assume the position as general manager for Tecnica France, succeeding Michel Rayot, who will continue to work for Tecnica France as a consultant The group is also ...
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Paul Stratta, the multi-lingual and versatile globetrotter of the sporting...
Paul Stratta, the multi-lingual and versatile globetrotter of the sporting goods industry, has been made chief executive of Karbon Kinetics (KKL), the London-based company that manufactures an award-winning electric two-wheeler, Gocycle. He takes the place of Richard Thorpe, who founded KKL in 2002. He will concentrate on design, development and ...
