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ArticleWolverine makes two big executive appointments
Wolverine Worldwide has made a couple of executive appointments to ring in the new year. It has expanded the duties of Jim Zwiers, the current president of its international group. Zwiers is now also president of Wolverine’s global operations group, overseeing portfolio-wide sourcing, logistics, distribution, customer service and information technology. ...
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Lafora is running Polar in both Italy and Iberia
The managing director of Polar Elektro Iberica, Manu Lafora, expanded his duties on Jan. 1 by taking charge of the brand’s new South Europe business region through the subsidiary at its core, Polar Italia. Lafora has been with the company, and in charge of Polar Iberica, since 2008. He was ...
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Arena creates new sales and marketing positions
Arena has promoted Giovanni Ciampaglia to the position of chief digital sales officer, while Eva Vitali has been appointed to the expanded role of consumer and trade marketing director. Ciampaglia, who was previously the Italian-based swimwear company’s global marketing director, will spearhead a new unit entirely focusing on e-commerce. Vitali, ...
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Adidas and Fear of God enter long-term basketball partnership
Adidas and Fear of God, the Californian fashion company founded and led by Jerry Lorenzo, have announced a long-term partnership that will see Lorenzo drive the creative and business strategy for Adidas basketball globally. The partnership will also solidify the establishment of Fear of God Athletics, a third sub-label of ...
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Outdoor Research names a “Vice President of People and Culture”
Outdoor Research (OR) has added Brett Kruse to its leadership team with the intriguing new title of ”vice president of people and culture,” where he will lead the company’s human relations initiatives. Most recently, Kruse worked at Starbucks for more than a decade in HR and operations. Prior to that, ...
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EXECUTIVE CHANGES
+++ Polar has named Eric Chouhmat as its new general manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland +++ Foot Locker has appointed a new senior vice president and chief information officer, Himanshu Parikh +++ Selema Masekela, a journalist and producer whose father was a jazz legend and activist in South Africa, ...
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Superdry shuffles its management
Superdry has signed a permanent contract with its interim chief executive, Julian Dunkerton, who is also one of its founders. His temporary contract would have expired in April 2021. The brand has also hired a chief operating officer, Silvana Bonello, who will be moving to the U.K., reporting to Dunkerton ...
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News briefsBata appoints Sandeep Kataria CEO
Bata Corporation, the big shoe manufacturer and retailer based in Lausanne, which is also active in the athletic footwear sector through Athletes World and AW Lab, has appointed Sandeep Kataria as global chief executive, replacing Alexis Nasard, who led the company for nearly five years. Nasard stepped down to pursue ...
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One of Zalando’s three CEOs to step down
Rubin Ritter plans to step down as Zalando’s joint chief executive, responsible for strategy and communication. He and the company’s supervisory board will be negotiating to dissolve his contract, which was to run until November 2023. Ritter says that he will be spending more time with his expanding family and ...
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Foot Locker’s CFO is due to retire in April
Foot Locker expects Lauren B. Peters to step down as executive vice president and chief financial officer and retire in April 2021. The sports retailer has engaged the headhunting firm Crist | Kolder to find a successor from in- or outside its ranks. Peters has been with Foot Locker for ...
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News briefsZipfit hires new managers
Zipfit, an American producer of ski boot liners has boosted its management. The company has hired Chris Dominick to become its managing director and head of North American sales. Dominick is notably the co-founder of Wise Bar, a “superfood” bar in Colorado. Zipfit has also hired Thomas May, now director ...
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Lululemon has a new CFO and a new director, both female
Lululemon has promoted Meghan Frank to chief financial officer. She is the first woman to hold the post at the apparel brand. Frank has been serving since April as interim co-CFO alongside Alex Grieve, Lululemon’s vice president and controller. Frank began her career as an associate with Wainwright Investment Counsel ...
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SMS looks to expand in Asia
Sports Marketing Surveys (SMS) has appointed Eric Lynge as special for Asia in order to expand its operations in the region, particularly in the areas of golf, cycling, outdoor and tennis. He will continue as the chief executive of the Asian Golf Industry Federation, which he has led since 2014. ...
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A new generation at the head of Sporthaus Schuster
Flori Schuster, the 65-year-old main partner in the iconic Munich sports retailer, will be retiring from the management of Sporthaus Schuster on March 31, 2021, after running the family-owned company since 1984. Rainer Angstl, who has been working alongside Schuster since 2003 as managing director, will remain head of purchasing, ...
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Shimano hires a Spanish country manager
Shimano Iberia has hired Bruno Prieto to be its country manager in Spain. Prieto was most recently chief executive of Sport Lifestyle, for a little less than a decade, and before then a sales attaché for Campagnolo Ibérica. Earlier still he was a technician – presumably a bike tech, as ...
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News briefsVicky Free will run Adidas’ global marketing operations
Adidas has appointed a new global marketing director, Vicky Free. She will take up the new role in the position of senior vice president at the company’s head office in Herzogenaurach on Jan. 4, reporting to Brian Grevy, executive board member of the group responsible for global brands. As Adidas ...
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Fast-growing Fila rebuilds its DACH sales organization
Medico Sports Fashion, the German sub-licensee of Fila for Continental Europe, has reorganized its sales structure for the DACH region, with the goal to help establish Fila among the top five sports brands in Europe. It says that Fila has achieved annual retail sales in the “upper three-digit-million-euro range” in ...
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News briefsIIC elects Intersport Germany’s CEO to its management board
Intersport International Corporation (IIC) has elected Alexander von Preen, chief executive of Intersport Germany, to its management board with a unanimous vote. Von Preen’s term extends to the annual general meeting in 2023. Intersport Germany has been absent of late from the management board due to the recent resignation of ...
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ArticleVincent Wauters will lead Rossignol, boosting apparel and digital
The alpine ski industry is going through a major generational change as it seeks new avenues of diversification. After the retirement of Jean-Marc Pambet as chief executive of Salomon one year ago and the more recent resignation of the 50-year-old Antonio Dus as CEO of the Tecnica Group, it is ...
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A top manager quits Sport 2000
Markus Hupach is stepping down by his own choice from his position as one of the three general managers of Sport 2000 GmbH, the new company that oversees the operations of Sport 2000 in Germany, Switzerland and the Benelux countries on behalf of the ANWR Group. With his departure, the ...
