That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 170
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Werner Grau, chief executive officer of the Uvex sports group,...
Werner Grau, chief executive officer of the Uvex sports group, will be retiring after 33 years in the family business and leave the company at the end of July next year. From January 2012, Katharina Le Thierry will be assuming the post. Born in 1964, she has had a long ...
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Freddy has signed new distribution contracts with LiLu for the...
Freddy has signed new distribution contracts with LiLu for the Russian market and with Sport on Top for the Danish market. Both contracts were signed at the beginning of this year. In July this year, Freddy signed a new distribution contract with Snow Force BVBA for the Benelux countries. Zalando, ...
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Remember Gregor Dietachmayer? The former managing director of Fischer Sports,...
Remember Gregor Dietachmayer? The former managing director of Fischer Sports, who is only 45 years old, doesn't have to worry anymore whether there is going to be enough snow on the ground as the new international sales manager of Silhouette, the big Austrian company that markets its own brand of ...
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Hans-Hermann Deters, the 51-year-old was most recently the chief executive...
Hans-Hermann Deters, the 51-year-old was most recently the chief executive of Kettler, will be joining the executive board of Ara Shoes as of Aug. 1, filling a new position where he will have responsibility for marketing, distribution and sales. Deters originally studied law and worked in news publishing, but he ...
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VF Corporation has signed an agreement with Arvind Group for...
VF Corporation has signed an agreement with Arvind Group for the distribution of Vans in the country. As part of the deal, two Vans stores will be opening in Bangalore and Delhi in the next few weeks. The Arvind Group has had a close partnership with VF for its jeans ...
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Look Cycle has assumed responsibility for the distribution in France...
Look Cycle has assumed responsibility for the distribution in France of Sunn, a French brand of mountain and all-terrain bicycles with revenues of €2.2 million in 2009
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Lacoste has named Micheline Kaufmann to its board of directors....
Lacoste has named Micheline Kaufmann to its board of directors. She spent more than 30 years with Chanel, where her positions included head of marketing for perfumes and beauty, and international head of marketing, corporate.
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Crocs is now directly managing the distribution of its shoe...
Crocs is now directly managing the distribution of its shoe collections in Portugal and Slovakia. Before, Crocs had been selling its product line in these countries by means of a distributor. At the moment, Crocs manages the distribution of its products directly in altogether 15 countries. In the future, the ...
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Derby Cycle has set up a direct sales unit in...
Derby Cycle has set up a direct sales unit in Australia that replaces its former distributor there, Green Apple Sports, from which it bought the inventories and customer receivables. Graeme Moffett, the owner and managing director of Green Apple Sports, was appointed managing director of Derby Cycle's Australian business. Derby ...
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Henner Schwarz, 34, has been appointed as the third joint...
Henner Schwarz, 34, has been appointed as the third joint managing director of Planet Sports, the fast-growing German online and brick-and-mortar action sports retailer, taking care of finance, IT and personnel. The company's founders, Sven Horstmann and Marcel Peters, continue to act as joint managing directors. A former manager of ...
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Markus Jung, 39, has been appointed chief financial officer of...
Markus Jung, 39, has been appointed chief financial officer of Golfino, responsible also for legal matters, controlling and personnel
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After the integration of its Spanish distributor, Justsurf, Volcom has...
After the integration of its Spanish distributor, Justsurf, Volcom has inaugurated the office of its new Spanish subsidiary in Deria, with five showrooms that will start displaying its ranges from the start of July
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Cees van de Meeberg has been appointed director of development...
Cees van de Meeberg has been appointed director of development at Brunotti Sportswear, the Dutch boardsports brand. This comes a few months after several financial partners came on board at Brunotti, enabling it to step up investments in its marketing and international reach. Van de Meeberg has previously been in ...
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As part of an executive reshuffle at Arc'teryx, George Curleigh,...
As part of an executive reshuffle at Arc'teryx, George Curleigh, formerly director of sales, has been promoted to vice president for sales, which places him in charge of global sales. He replaces Gary Bryant, who shifted to vice president for product and merchandising, supervising all aspects of research, design and ...
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Magnus Claesson has become chief buying officer at the New...
Magnus Claesson has become chief buying officer at the New Wave Group in Asia, replacing Randy Royce, who is leaving the company
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Richard Sharp, chairman of Crocs' board, has retired from this...
Richard Sharp, chairman of Crocs' board, has retired from this job, to be replaced by Thomas Smach, who has been a board member since April 2005 and served as acting chairman since the end of last year, when Sharp took a leave of absence
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John McCarvel, president and chief executive of Crocs since February...
John McCarvel, president and chief executive of Crocs since February 2010, has won the Stevie Award for turnaround executive of the year at the 2011 American Business Awards, as he helped the company to return to profitable growth and to become one of 2010's best-performing stocks
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Timberland has hired Mark Newton, who previously worked at Dell,...
Timberland has hired Mark Newton, who previously worked at Dell, to become its vice president for corporate social responsibility
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Joachim Harbich, a German executive from the music industry, joined...
Joachim Harbich, a German executive from the music industry, joined Pelé Sports last month as global marketing director, which is a new position. The Swiss-based football brand launched at the World Cup last year already had a global marketing manager, Zoe Geary. She joined in March from IMG, the master ...
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Adalbert von der Osten, managing director of the German sporting...
Adalbert von der Osten, managing director of the German sporting goods industry association, BSI, has joined a 12-man advisory committee of the federal environment ministry for the protection of the environment and sport. Environmental issues and initiatives have been in the forefront of BSI's action under von der Osten, particularly ...
