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The Danish Sportmaster chain has many new managers
The Danish Sportmaster chain has hired five new top managers since the beginning of this year, reporting to Andreas Holm, the company’s CEO, to help it to grow online and to open new stores in Denmark as well as in other Nordic countries. The Russian Sportmaster Group, which bought the ...
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Boardriders reshuffles management
Brad Blankinship, who has been running Boardriders’ RVCA brand of apparel, has been appointed general manager of the Quiksilver brand. He succeeds Garry Wall, a 28-year veteran of Quiksilver who is leaving the group after running the brand for the last six years. David Brooks will be the new general ...
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Wilson sets up pádel business team
Wilson Sporting Goods has put together a team to improve its positioning in the pádel market, which is expanding internationally. To lead this team, it has selected its territory commercial manager for southern Europe, Ignacio Cabrera, a 25-year Spanish veteran in sporting goods who has worked for Quiksilver, Adidas and ...
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Accell makes key supply chain appointment
Accell Group has appointed Francesca Gamboni, who is currently senior vice president of Stellantis in charge of the global supply chain, to the position of chief supply chain officer, tackling what has become an important and complex issue in the bike sector and others. Replacing Jeroen Both, who is leaving ...
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Hans-Hermann Deters will leave Sport 2000
Hans-Hermann Deters, an iconic figure in the German sporting goods market, is planning to leave the position of joint general manager of Sport 2000 GmbH next March 31, after seven and a half years of successful work with the retail organization, where he reinforced its specialist orientation. At the age ...
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Snow Factory has a new CEO
According to CMDsport, Snow Factory has a new CEO in Álvaro Camín, former business director for EMEA and global sales director at Suunto. The appointment is intended to free up the Iberian distributor’s owners, Javier and Alejo Garriga, to strategize digital and operational growth. In September, Snow Factory also appointed ...
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News briefsCrocs with two new SVPs
Source: Crocs Lori Foglia Crocs has hired Lori Foglia as senior vice president and chief product and merchandising officer. Foglia brings nearly 25 years of product, merchandising and retail experience to the company. She previously worked at Victoria’s Secret, where she spent nearly five years overseeing product ...
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ArticleUA elevates Massimo Baratto as chief consumer officer in management reshuffle
Under Armour has promoted Massimo Baratto to the interesting new position of executive vice president and chief consumer officer, effective Nov. 1. He has been serving since May 2018 as managing director of the company’s EMEA region, based in Amsterdam. In conjunction with this announcement, UA said that he will ...
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Cantet leaves Private Sport Shop to run Moustache Bikes
On Jan. 1, 2022, Olivier Cantet, a 56-year-old executive with over 20 years of management experience in the outdoor and sporting goods industry who describes himself as a “leading French e-bike specialist,” will join Moustache Bikes, a ten-year-old French supplier of e-bikes, as CEO. He will leave Private Sport Shop, ...
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ArticleTwo new top managers for Intersport International
Christian Wille, a 43-year-old German citizen who holds a university degree in international finance, will take the place of Martin Künzi as chief financial officer of Intersport International Corp. (IIC) as of January 2022. He will join IIC’s executive management board at the same time as Mateja Jesenek, a 54-year-old ...
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ArticleAsos’ CEO quits in connection with a profit warning
The chief executive of Asos, Nick Beighton, is departing the U.K.-based online fashion retailer in a shock move as the company issued a profit warning, citing supply chain issues and rising costs combined with a slowdown in its growth. Asos is facing “notable cost headwinds” from inbound freight fees, wage ...
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After 40 years in operation, Spain’s BM Sportech has a new CEO
José Maria Barcos Martínez, 67, is yielding control of the company he founded 40 years ago, BM Sportech, which still is a major distributor of sporting goods in Spain. His successor as CEO is a 21-year veteran of the company, Alberto Mastral, who will be joining a new executive board ...
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Additional appointments at Bollé Brands
Bollé Brands, the French-based parent company of Bollé, Cébé and Serengeti, has further strengthened the management of its Sport & Luxury Division by hiring other industry veterans, in addition to those that we have already reported about, including Quentin Chaplein. Corentin Daniel, who worked for 17 years as an engineer ...
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The CEO of Sport 1 will run Norway's whole Sport Holding group
Ole-Henrik Skirstad, who has been the CEO of Norway’s Sport 1 Gruppen, has been named CEO of the whole Sport Holding group, following the merger last year of Sport 1 with the Norwegian branch of Intersport, which was owned by Gresvig. Now that the integration process has been completed, Lars ...
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News briefsJoining Hefter at Polygiene, Eva Doll takes charge of the customer experience in EMEA
Polygiene has hired Eva Doll as its new customer experience manager for the EMEA markets. Doll has extensive experience in the sporting goods and outdoor industries. She comes to Polygiene with a solid background as a freelance editor and content creator for several sports brands, sports publications and news platforms. ...
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ArticleRevo boosts sales management, launches new high-end range
While launching a new high-end line of sunglasses, Revo has appointed three new vice presidents. Jerry Bedingfield is now vice president of sales for the sport and specialty segments in North America, while Christoph Nitz and Kurt Plunger both now hold that same title for Europe. Bedingfield has been working ...
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Schöffel enlarges its executive board
Schöffel is restructuring its top management as it divides its business into two segments – Schöffel Sport for its operations in the outdoor, ski and bike sectors; and Schöffel Professional for the development of clothing for corporate and institutional clients. Stefan Merkt, who has been charge of sales for the ...
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Mirror’s founder and CEO is resigning
CNBC has obtained a copy of a memorandum from Lululemon’s management informing its employees that Brynn Putnam is resigning as CEO of Mirror, the U.S.-based producer of connected wall-mounted screens for workout streaming that Lululemon acquired in June 2020 for $500 million. The memo was signed by Putnam herself and ...
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IIC hires a Salomon executive as GM for mountain sports
Intersport International Corp. (IIC) has officially announced the appointment of Denis Levet, who has worked for Salomon since 2004, as the retail organization’s new general manager of mountain sports. The 44-year-old French native, who started his career at Decathlon 18 years ago, will replace Matthias Klopfenstein in the role next ...
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ArticleBollé Brands hires new executives for e-com, sales, marketing and CSR
The Bollé Brands Group has hired new executives for its marketing, business, e-commerce and corporate social responsibility departments to support a plan to strengthen both its digital and local presence, to raise awareness of all the group’s brands - Bollé, Cébé, Spy+ and Serengeti - and to strengthen its socially ...
