That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 65
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Davide Grasso, former CEO of Converse, has become chief operating...
Davide Grasso, former CEO of Converse, has become chief operating officer at Maserati
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Reebok has named Kerby Jean-Raymond, the founder and designer of...
Reebok has named Kerby Jean-Raymond, the founder and designer of Pyer Moss, as artistic director of Reebok Studies, a new company division that will reportedly focus on developing young new creative talent and ideas. The project has been compared to the Genius program of Moncler. Jean-Raymond has already collaborated with ...
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Wouter Jager is leaving as global retail director for the...
Wouter Jager is leaving as global retail director for the Accell Group, according to Bike Europe
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Schöffel is expanding its management team to stimulate its international...
Schöffel is expanding its management team to stimulate its international expansion. The decision was made after the voluntary departure of Günther Herrmann, who had led Schöffel's marketing and sales department since 2018 as well as its product business unit since January. All the three business units that he previously supervised – ...
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Mark King, a former president of Adidas North America who...
Mark King, a former president of Adidas North America who is now 60 years old, has been made chief executive of Taco Bell, one of the American fast-food chains owned by Yum! Brands
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Andreas Rudolf, one of the two managing directors of Sport...
Andreas Rudolf, one of the two managing directors of Sport 2000 Germany, has announced that he will not renew his contract. He has worked for the German buying group for the past 13 years, serving most recently as joint managing director as joint managing director alongside Hans-Hermann Deters, overall manager of ...
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VF Corp. announced the appointment of Michel Bilodeau as vice...
VF Corp. announced the appointment of Michel Bilodeau as vice president and general manager in charge of Vans in the EMEA region, starting in October. He will replace Stefano Saccone, who had taken on the responsibility in April but is instead going to run Woolrich International (see the following article). ...
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Spy has announced that Tony Larson is returning to the...
Spy has announced that Tony Larson is returning to the company as creative director. Larson was part of Spy's branding and artistic direction from 2012 to 2015, which included the launch of the Happy Lens campaign. Earlier in his career, he served as designer and art director for Girl Skateboards ...
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Freemotion has appointed Apostolos Seintis as sales director for Europe,...
Freemotion has appointed Apostolos Seintis as sales director for Europe, and Leopoldo Torres as sales director for Latin America. Seintis has been hired to drive the growth of the commercial fitness manufacturer in Europe. Freemotion is headquartered in Logan, Utah. Seintis spent 15 years at All Sport, where he helped ...
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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. He takes over the role from Paolo Corinaldesi, who has served as Woolrich International's chief executive for the past three years. Saccone joins from VF Corp., where he was most recently vice-president and general manager of the Vans EMEA ...
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Dynafit, a brand belonging to Oberalp, has appointed Silvia Loher...
Dynafit, a brand belonging to Oberalp, has appointed Silvia Loher to the newly created position of international trade marketing manager. Dennis Forte was appointed to the position of e-commerce and digital-marketing manager, replacing Sabrina Raab, who will be on maternity and paternity leave for one year, in June. Loher, 30, was ...
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Robert Markovitch, a former president or chief executive of Ride,...
Robert Markovitch, a former president or chief executive of Ride, Coleman and K2, has been made interim CEO of CannTrust Holdings, a licensed Canadian producer of medical and recreational cannabis, following an investigation into the non-compliance with health regulations of his predecessor, Peter Aceto
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fischer Ski has appointed a new general manager, Valter Bozzetto,...
Fischer Ski has appointed a new general manager, Valter Bozzetto, for its Fischer Footwear subsidiary in Montebelluna, taking the place of Andrea Carraro. Bozzetto, who has worked for other sporting goods brands, says he was convinced that he could engineer Fischer's alpine and cross-country ski boots in a more updated ...
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The North Face has appointed Tina Rolén as its new...
The North Face has appointed Tina Rolén as its new marketing director for the EMEA region, taking the place of Kathy Hines. Rolén joined VF last September as EMEA marketing director for Vans. Prior to that, she had worked for two years as worldwide marketing director for Haglöfs, the Swedish ...
