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EXECUTIVE CHANGES
+++ Selle Royal Group has announced the departure of Nicola Rosin, its managing director, after 19 years with the company +++ Lai Hin Wing Henry Stephen, a Hong Kong notary public, has taken the place of Mei Ming Zhi on the board of Anta Sports Products as an independent non-executive ...
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Speedo will get a new global brand director who is now in charge of Berghaus
Pentland Brands will be shifting Kev McFadyen from brand director of Berghaus to global brand director of Speedo in January. McFadyen, who assumed his Berghaus post when he was hired by Pentland in 2018, will remain on the brand’s advisory board, alongside Sir Chris Bonington and Leo Houlding. Nadine ...
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Lululemon expands its leadership team
Lululemon Athletica has promoted one of its managers, Celeste Burgoyne, and brought in an experienced manager, André Maestrini, who will join the company from Adidas in January to serve as executive vice president in charge of international operations. It has also appointed a new manager in charge of diversity and ...
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Change at the top of Intersport Sverige
Markus Wibergh has resigned as president and chief executive of Intersport Sverige, just as the Swedish retail group is coming out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. He was replaced on Nov. 2 by Pontus Petersson, who had been serving as chief financial officer since 2017, after handling business development, logistics ...
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VF appoints a new VP of inclusion and diversity
VF Corp. has appointed Lauren Guthrie as vice president of global inclusion and diversity (I&D) in replacement of Reggie Miller, who is resigning. Guthrie has worked in merchandising for most of her career, first at Abercrombie & Fitch and Levi Strauss, then in an executive capacity at Nike, Old Navy ...
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Melchers Group combines Venice Beach and Joy Sportswear
The German Melchers Group, which has more than 50 brands from various industries under its umbrella, has reorganized its apparel segment. Its Scoretex subsidiary will serve as the “Home of Brands” for all four of the group’s sports brands. In addition to the labels Venice Beach and Curvy Fit by ...
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ArticleAntonio Dus leaves Tecnica
The Tecnica Group says that its chief executive, Antonio Dus, is leaving in December 2020 “in order to be able to devote himself to other personal and professional projects.” The company’s chairman, Alberto Zanatta, will be acting as CEO on an interim basis with effect from Nov. 1. Reaching Ebitda ...
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ArticleFogliato will run Columbia’s omni-channel activities in executive reshuffle
Columbia Sportswear Company has announced a series of senior leadership changes executing on transition plans while supporting the company’s omni-channel programs for growth and unlocking digital opportunities. The company is aligning its organizational structure globally “to accelerate our business transformation with a focus on e-commerce and digital,” said Tim Boyle, ...
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Nike manager switches to Snipes
The Deichmann group has appointed a long-time Nike manager to the new position of European general manager for Snipes, its international chain of sneaker shops. Starting on Nov. 1, he will join Snipes’ founder and chief executive, Sven Voth, and Tim Spickenborn, the chief financial officer, as the third member ...
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Former Swix Sport Group centralizes its management
The Brav Group – the Norwegian-based owner of the Swix, Toko, Lundhags, Ulvang, Helsport and Hard Rocx brands – resorted to video conferencing this spring to start implementing a reorganization at the height of the Covid-19 quarantines. Leading the charge was the company’s new chief executive, Espen Falck Engelstad, who ...
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Nautilus hires new chief digital officer
Nautilus hired Garry Wiseman on Oct. 26 to be its senior vice president and chief digital officer. He will be overseeing JRNY – the platform that creates tailored home workouts – and the direct-to-consumer e-commerce business while also helping with the company’s digitalization. Wiseman is coming off a nearly four-year ...
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News briefsThierry Guibert will run the whole Maus Frères group
Didier Maus, retiring after 28 years with the family-owned company, has arranged with the board of directors of Maus Frères to yield the post of chief executive to Thierry Guibert on Jan. 18, 2021. Maus will retain his non-executive duties as chairman, while Guibert will retain his current duties as ...
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Puma appoints new head of Sportstyle unit
Puma has appointed Maria Valdes as the new general manager of its Sportstyle unit, the company’s largest business unit by revenues. She replaces Reinhard Dischner, who will leave Puma at the end of the year after 18 years with the company. Dischner will stay on until then to ensure a ...
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News briefsInternetstores appoints a chief brand officer
Internetstores has added a chief brand officer (CBO) to its management team. Alongside Hans Dohrmann, Thomas Spengler, Raid Naim, Olivier Rochon and Martin Netinder, Frank Aldorf is now part of the company’s management board. In his new function as CBO, Aldorf is now responsible for the purchasing department of Europe’s ...
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Millet Mountain Group will soon have a new boss
Romain Millet will take over from Frédéric Ducruet as the new managing director of the Millet Mountain Group. Ducruet had been at the helm for the past seven years, and has worked for Millet for 19 years. According to reports in sport-guide.fr, Millet will be appointed to the new role ...
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Gore’s chairman becomes its CEO
Bret Snyder, chairman of W. L. Gore & Associates, succeeded Jason Field as president and chief executive of the company on Oct. 9. Field will be staying through December for the transition. Snyder has been chairman since 2016 and will retain his seat on the board. He is the grandson ...
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Only three managers at the helm of Intersport Deutschland
Intersport Deutschland is no longer looking for a successor to Mathias Boenke, the 54-year-old manager who joined its executive board in 2018 after building up Intersport Austria. Boenke had indicated that he was going to remain in the post for as long as necessary until the expiration of his contract ...
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Reorganizing the top management, VF names Steve Murray president of TNF
VF Corporation is changing its management structure to suit changes in the way it does business, notably by dividing its brand portfolio into Core Brands and Emerging Brands and by getting them to be managed differently to help them achieve their full potential. Until now, the operations of its three ...
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News briefsBurton opens new Hub in Stockholm, appoints new managers for the Nordics
Burton Snowboards will open a new multi-use space, referred to as the Burton Hub, at Norrlandsgatan 20 in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 15. After establishing the concept of combining retail store, showroom, and office spaces already in Innsbruck, Munich, and Zurich, the company now expands to Scandinavia. The new Burton ...
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Pentland has a new global brand director for Canterbury and Mitre
Pentland Brands has made Jodie Soussan its global brand director for the Canterbury and Mitre brands. Replacing Charlotte Cox, who has been promoted to president for EMEA, she will be reporting to the future chief marketing officer, Penny Herriman, who will take up her post later this year. Soussan joined ...
