That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 56
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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 ...
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Stefan Herzog is the new president of Fedas
The European Federation of Sports Retailers, Fedas, unanimously elected Stefan Herzog as its new president at its general assembly, convened via a videoconference. Herzog, who ran SportScheck for many years until 2016, will continue as secretary general of VDS, the German Sports Retailers’s Federation, which he has led since the ...
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New CEO for Casall Sport
Nanna Hedlund will take up the post of chief executive of Casall Sport on Aug. 17. She was previously the CEO of Polarn O. Pyret, a Swedish quality kidswear brand with sales all over Europe and also in the U.S. Hedlund has been on Casall’s board since 2108. She takes ...
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+++ Eurosport has hired Amar Melwani from the Walt Disney Company to be vice-president of distribution, partnerships and rights, a newly created post meant to accelerate the broadcaster’s direct-to-consumer strategy +++
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A boost for Fila’s management in Europe
Petra Stürenberg, managing director of Medico Sports Fashion, Fila’s licensee of the brand for Continental Europe, has appointed new managers to sustain the brand’s strong momentum in the region with a goal to turn it into one of the top five sports brands in the market. Since June, Hansjörg Scharner ...
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Cole Haan has a new VP of North American wholesale
Cole Haan has appointed Andrew Rudolph as senior vice president of North American wholesale sales, preparing the American casual footwear brand for its entry into the sporting goods retail channel. Rudolph spent the past five years as vice president of sales at Adidas, his home since at least 2007, generating ...
