That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 54
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Nike has a new diversity director
Kellie Leonard, Nike’s director of diversity and inclusion since the creation of this position in 2018, is stepping down, leaving the company. She will be replaced by Felicia Mayo, who assumes the newly coined title of chief talent, diversity and culture officer, leading a newly formed team. Mayo joined Nike ...
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Smith names new executives
Smith, a Safilo Group brand, has appointed Francesco Rinaldi Ceroni as general manager. He joins the company after more than 13 years in both wholesale and retail eyewear, serving most recently as vice president of international strategy and business development at Costa Del Mar. In his new role, he will ...
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Timberland hires new VP of global marketing
Timberland hired Drieke Leenknegt in June to be its vice president of global marketing, joining its global leadership team. She is succeeding Argu Secilmis, who has become vice president of global apparel. Leenknegt will be liaising with the brand’s regional marketing teams in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Middle ...
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Canada Goose sends a signal with the strategic hire of a GM Footwear
Canada Goose appointed Adam Meek to the new role of general manager of footwear & accessories. Meek brings more than 20 years of global footwear experience to this role. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of product at Sperry (Wolverine Worldwide), where he led the brand’s global product ...
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Nike has a new head of talent, diversity and culture
Nike has promoted Felicia Mayo from vice president of human resources to chief talent, diversity & culture officer, to replace Kellie Leonard. In the past year, as we have reported, there have been a number of complaints against Nike over lack of diversity and unequal pay in management – a ...
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Slinger Bag expands into Canada
Slinger Bag, the new sports equipment brand internationally focused on ”innovating game improvement equipment for all ball sports,“ announced a significant expansion in Canada with the appointment of Doug Coombs as director of business development for that market, effective immediately. Like Mike Ballandie, the chief executive of Slinger Bags, Coombs ...
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UA hires senior sales director for EMEA
Under Armour has hired Phil Fox as senior director of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Reporting to the region’s managing director, Massimo Baratto, Fox is now leading wholesale and distribution and refining a digital-first, consumer-centric strategy with UA’s current commercial partners. Fox has about 25 years’ ...
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ArticleNike realigns management for digital DTC, places EMEA under Grebert
Nike will be making several changes to its top management and operating model in keeping with the “Consumer Direct Acceleration” (CDA) policy it announced in June while releasing its latest financial results. The Nike brand’s regional divisions will remain as they stand, but two of them will be swapping out ...
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Adidas France has a new managing director
Mathieu Sidokpohou has taken over from Guillaume de Monplanet as the new managing director of Adidas France, the French subsidiary of the sporting goods giant. De Monplanet, who joined the Adidas group in 2005 as commercial director for Reebok, has left the company. He became country manager in 2018. Sidokpohou’s ...
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Wolverine hires its first VP of advanced concepts and innovation
Wolverine Worldwide has hired Barry McGeough to be its first vice president of advanced concepts and innovation, with a purview extending to all 12 of the company’s brands. He will be seeking out new technologies, materials and other advancements – 5G, augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), etc. – for ...
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Wilson promotes Joe Dudy to president
Wilson Sporting Goods has promoted Joe Dudy to president. Dudy has been acting leader of the brand since autumn 2019, when Michael Dowse left in connection with the closing of Anta Sports Products’ takeover of Wilson’s parent company, Amer Sports. He is taking the helm at Wilson as the brand ...
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Duca del Cosma appoints new global marketing director
Duca del Cosma, the international golf shoe brand owned by Frank van Wezel, has appointed Honorata Nel as its new global marketing director. Nel worked most recently for the New York Runners, the organizers of the annual New York City Marathon, where she served for five years as director of ...
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North Sails appoints new CEO
North Sails Apparel has hired Marisa Selfa to serve as the Italian company’s new chief executive, taking the place of Vicente Castellano who remains as executive chairman. Most recently, Selfa served as general manager of Ecoalf, a Spanish brand that develops clothing, footwear and accessories made entirely from recycled materials. ...
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New boss for Deuter
Robert Schieferle has been promoted to the position of managing director for Deuter, the popular German brand of backpacks, starting on July 1. He has been with the brand for more than 30 years, serving as deputy managing director since 2016. Schieferle takes the place of Martin Riebel, who has ...
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Puma appoints Paul Spencer as regional sales director Europe
Puma has announced that Paul Spencer is taking over the position of regional sales director for Europe with immediate effect. He succeeds Marek Drvota, who has left the company. The briton has been with Puma since 2007, where he started as a lifestyle sales manager. He became general manager for ...
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Hudora appoints new joint chief executive
Hudora appointed Pieter Coelewij as joint chief executive on June 9. He had been a sales director for Hudora since last August. The native Dutchman was previously the CEO of the Royal Jumbo Group, which develops, manufactures and sells games, puzzles and toys. Until 2007, he was the manager for ...
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New American boss for Aqua Lung
Aqua Lung has appointed Andrew Gritzbaugh to the new role of general manager for North America. He was previously senior vice president and general manager of Gerber, the supplier of activity-specific knives, multi-tools and problem-serving gear. Gritzbaugh’s nomination comes a few months after Matthieu Bazin became the new president of ...
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Adidas’ global personnel director steps down
Karen Parkin has decided to leave Adidas after 23 years. She stepped down on June 30 as worldwide head of human resources and as a member of the executive board. A British citizen, Parkin was the only woman on Adidas’ management board. Her departure has been attributed to her failure ...
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POC takes over the distribution in the U.K.
Boardsport Source reports that POC has established a “Sales Organisation” for the U.K. and hired a country manager, Oliver Coxhead, to oversee it. Sales teams from POC’s office for European sales will be providing back-up. The new arrangements took effect on July 1. The Swedish producer of headwear, eyewear, apparel ...
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Wintersteiger goes on promoting young talent
Wintersteiger – the Austrian provider of machinery for ski repair and maintenance, software for ski rental, and equipment and furnishings for ski shops – continues to train young people despite the coronavirus pandemic. While announcing the appointment of a new head of human resources, Wintersteiger says it wants to hire ...
