That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 65
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VF Corp. has appointed Denny Bruce as global brand president...
VF Corp. has appointed Denny Bruce as global brand president of Williamson Dickie Mfg. Co. (Dickies), replacing Philip Williamson, who will move into a brand ambassador's role
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Hurley, Nike's boardsports apparel brand, has appointed John Schweitzer as...
Hurley, Nike's boardsports apparel brand, has appointed John Schweitzer as its chief executive and chief financial officer. Schweitzer is replacing Bob Coombes, who was made general manager in 2015, with the departure of Hurley's founder and CEO, Bob Hurley. Schweitzer has been with Nike since 2000 and first served in ...
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Milliken has announced the appointment of one of its own...
Milliken has announced the appointment of one of its own executives, Steve Layton, as president of Polartec, who will take the place of Gary Smith and lead the integration process. Leyton joined Milliken in 2012, serving most recently as vice president of sales and marketing for Westex, the flame-retardant fabric ...
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OrthoLite, the American insole specialist, has hired Milton Brice as...
OrthoLite, the American insole specialist, has hired Milton Brice as chief financial officer and Mark Coffield as general manager for Vietnam, where OrthoLite has recently inaugurated a manufacturing plant. Brice has previously worked for The Hershey Company in Asia and South America. Coffield, who will lead Ortholite's new Vietnamese factory, ...
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All Weather Sports (AWS), the parent company of Dita and...
All Weather Sports (AWS), the parent company of Dita and Nomad, has appointed Roelof de Leeuw as its new chief executive. Most recently, de Leeuw acted as managing director at Bosgroup brands such as Gant, Footwear Maruti and O'Neill footwear. He previously held management and director level positions at Simmer ...
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Henri Lloyd has appointed Ben Ainslie as chief technical...
Henri Lloyd has appointed Ben Ainslie as chief technical adviser on product development and a non-executive director to its board
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Under a previously agreed plan, Giovanni Zoppas, a former executive...
Under a previously agreed plan, Giovanni Zoppas, a former executive at Tecnica Group, will concentrate on his role as chief executive and general manager of Thélios, the joint venture officially created between the Marcolin Group and LVMH in April 2018, in which the French luxury group has a 51 percent ...
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Claes Broqvist has left as chief sales officer of Overalp...
Claes Broqvist has left as chief sales officer of Overalp to become the first international sales director of Vicis from Aug. 5. Based in Seattle, the young American brand has developed a special concussion technology that has earned its helmets the top rating in American football for three years in ...
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Blizzard Tecnica USA has promoted Justin Heanue to national sales...
Blizzard Tecnica USA has promoted Justin Heanue to national sales manager. He will report directly to Sam Cook, president of Blizzard Tecnica USA. Blizzard Sport USA is under the Tecnica Group umbrella. Blizzard and Tecnica operate as a single business unit in the U.S.
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Under Armour has made Sean Eggert its senior vice president...
Under Armour has made Sean Eggert its senior vice president of global sports marketing. He will be reporting to Alessandro de Pestel, chief marketing officer. Eggert was last with Red Bull, where he was in charge of about 160 initiatives, such as a recent partnership with USA Basketball, several action ...
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Keen Footwear appointed Dieter Klingenberg last month to the recently...
Keen Footwear appointed Dieter Klingenberg last month to the recently created position of sales and business development director for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and Scandinavia. Simultaneously, Perry Laukens was appointed to the newly created position of sales and business director for the U.K., France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and nine ...
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VF Corp. has appointed Cameron Bailey as vice-president of global...
VF Corp. has appointed Cameron Bailey as vice-president of global supply chain, effective June 1. He replaces Tom Glaser, who has left VF after 18 years to take over the role of chief operations officer at Tapestry, formerly known as Coach Inc. Bailey has spent his entire career in manufacturing ...
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Cherokee Global Brands, which is changing its name to Apex...
Cherokee Global Brands, which is changing its name to Apex Global Brands at the end of June, has appointed a current director, Evan Hengel, to chairman of the board. Hengel has had a seat on the board since October 2018 and been a managing director at the Berkeley Research Group ...
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Jack Wolfskin appointed Ante Franicevic to the position of chief...
Jack Wolfskin appointed Ante Franicevic to the position of chief financial officer last month. He replaces Jörg Wahlers, who worked as chief financial officer and chief operating officer for Jack Wolfskin and left the German outdoor company at his own request at the end of July. Franicevic, 48, worked previously ...
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Abacus Sportswear has announced the appointment of Marc Anderman as...
Abacus Sportswear has announced the appointment of Marc Anderman as the new commercial manager for the U.K. Anderman has worked for more than ten years with the Solheim Cup and has a long relationship with the Swedish apparel brand, having appointed the company as the official supplier to the European ...
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On June 17, Ratnakar Lavu became Nike's first global chief...
On June 17, Ratnakar Lavu became Nike's first global chief digital information officer, in charge of digital technologies. He reports to Eric Sprunk, chief operating officer. Lavu was most recently chief technology and information officer at Kohl's, the American retail chain, heading up its IT, digital and consumer technology. Before that, ...
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Mizuno Iberia has made Josep Maria Munill its new sales...
Mizuno Iberia has made Josep Maria Munill its new sales director. For the past several months, Munill has been working with Oliver Strenguetto, who runs the Iberian subsidiary, to establish the Japanese company's sales team on the peninsula. Munill has otherwise spent his 20-year career at Fila, as sales director ...
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Woolrich International has appointed Stefano Saccone as its new chief...
Woolrich International has appointed Stefano Saccone as its new chief executive. Saccone joins from VF Corp., where he spent seven years, most recently as vice-president/general manager of Vans. Prior to VF Corp., he held marketing roles at Ralph Lauren, and served as general manager of sportswear and action sports at ...
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Indorama has appointed Deepak Parikh, up till now the president...
Indorama has appointed Deepak Parikh, up till now the president of Clariant's business in North America, as its new chief strategy officer
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Primaloft has announced the appointment of Zoltan Kelemen as the...
Primaloft has announced the appointment of Zoltan Kelemen as the new territory sales manager for the U.K., Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg) and Denmark. He replaces Wim Neels, who has become vice-president of business development of fashion and lifestyle global, still at Primaloft. In his new role, Kelemen will report to ...
