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    Melchers Group combines Venice Beach and Joy Sportswear

    2020-11-02T18:15:00Z

    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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    Antonio Dus leaves Tecnica

    2020-11-01T15:05:00Z

    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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    Fogliato will run Columbia’s omni-channel activities in executive reshuffle

    2020-10-30T18:01:00Z

    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

    2020-10-30T17:06:00Z

    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

    2020-10-28T12:14:00Z

    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

    2020-10-23T17:31:00Z

    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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    Thierry Guibert will run the whole Maus Frères group

    2020-10-22T17:19:00Z

    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

    2020-10-18T19:22:00Z

    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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    Internetstores appoints a chief brand officer

    2020-10-16T17:09:00Z

    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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    Gore’s chairman becomes its CEO

    2020-10-15T17:30:00Z

    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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    Millet Mountain Group will soon have a new boss

    2020-10-15T17:30:00Z

    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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    Only three managers at the helm of Intersport Deutschland

    2020-10-14T17:30:00Z

    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

    2020-10-14T16:43:00Z

    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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    Burton opens new Hub in Stockholm, appoints new managers for the Nordics

    2020-10-13T17:03:00Z

    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

    2020-10-13T16:51:00Z

    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 ...

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    Li & Fung shuffles its top management

    2020-10-12T17:18:00Z

    Li & Fung, which went private in May of this year, is shifting Joseph Phi from group president to chief executive. Spencer Fung, CEO since 2014, is in turn moving to executive chairman. He will be replacing William Fung, who is taking a seat alongside his brother, Victor Fung, on ...

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    Burton appoints new creative and marketing executives

    2020-10-08T12:17:00Z

    Source: © Burton Adrian Margelist Burton Snowboards has named Adrian Josef Margelist as its new executive creative director, and Kelly Murnaghan as senior vice-president of global marketing. Both Margelist and Murnaghan, who have already started in their respective roles, will report to Burton’s chief executive, John Lacy. ...

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    Puma hires new creative director

    2020-10-07T16:05:00Z

    Puma has hired June Ambrose as creative director, in charge of designing items for women and girls. The 48-year-old designer from Antigua has a long list of important clients including several well-known Hollywood actors and hip-hop and R&B musicians – Zoe Saldana, Kim Cattrall, Missy Elliot, P. Diddy, Mariah Carey, ...

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    Amanda Rajkumar will run HR for Adidas

    2020-10-07T15:12:00Z

    Amanda Rajkumar, a 48-year-old British national with 24 years of experience in human relations at other global organizations, is taking the place of Karen Parkin at the Adidas Group as the executive board member in charge of global human relations, overseeing a staff of nearly 60,000 people. She will be ...

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    Uvex appoints new sales manager

    2020-10-06T14:09:00Z

    Uvex Sports is strengthening its sales team by creating the new position of head of sales, with oversight for domestic and international sales, which has been assumed by Patrick Schmollinger as of Oct. 1. Schmollinger started his sales career at Speedo Germany after completing his studies. He then moved to ...