That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 66
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Aigle's owner, Maus Frères, has announced the appointment of Sandrine...
Aigle's owner, Maus Frères, has announced the appointment of Sandrine Conseiller as the new president of the Aigle brand. Conseiller spent 20 years at Unilever, where she held evolving roles, from brand manager up to vice president. Most recently, she was marketing and brand director of Lacoste, which is also ...
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Adidas has promoted Neelendra Singh to general manager for India....
Adidas has promoted Neelendra Singh to general manager for India. He takes over the role from Dave Thomas, who has been appointed as Adidas' managing director for emerging markets. Singh, who was previously senior vice-president of global DTC and franchise, will continue to report to Dave Thomas. Singh joined Adidas ...
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Taking a position previously occupied by Joel Sandoz, Mark Phares...
Taking a position previously occupied by Joel Sandoz, Mark Phares has gone back to Smith Optics to serve as its new vice president of global sales. He had already spent 17 years with the U.S.-based Safilo subsidiary in various sales and management roles before leaving for OluKai, where he oversaw ...
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MIPS, a Swedish firm that regards itself as the world's...
MIPS, a Swedish firm that regards itself as the world's leading supplier of helmet-based safety technologies to protect against rotational movements, appointed on May 10 its former chief financial officer, Max Strandwitz, to the position as chief executive. Strandwitz replaces Johan Thiel, who will work together with the newly appointed ...
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JD Sports Fashion has an experienced non-executive director on its...
JD Sports Fashion has an experienced non-executive director on its board. Kath Smith, the former executive of the Adidas Group who served as general manager and vice president of The North Face EMEA until last year, has joined the board of directors of the fast-growing U.K.-based retailer. She wanted to ...
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Mondraker has hired Thierry Gracia as its sales director for...
Mondraker has hired Thierry Gracia as its sales director for southern Europe, a newly created position, which covers the French, Spanish and Portuguese markets
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VF Corp. is moving Jeremie Blondel from Vans to The...
VF Corp. is moving Jeremie Blondel from Vans to The North Face. Filling a newly created role, he will serve as vice president of sales for TNF in Europe, the Middle East and Africa with responsibility for the entire wholesale business in the region. Blondel will work under Jan van ...
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Puma has appointed John Miller as its new senior vice-president...
Puma has appointed John Miller as its new senior vice-president of wholesale for North America. He joins Puma from G-Form, the sports protection brand, where he has held the role of senior vice-president and general manager of sales and marketing since October 2017. Prior to G-Form, he spent 11 years ...
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Canada Goose has promoted Ana Mihaljevic from senior vice president...
Canada Goose has promoted Ana Mihaljevic from senior vice president of planning and sales operations to chief commercial officer. She will oversee the company's global commercial business while continuing to take charge of sales planning and sales operations. She will be seeking to expand the wholesale channel, the direct-to-consumer (DTC) ...
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The Adidas Group has three new members on its supervisory...
The Adidas Group has three new members on its supervisory board. At the company's annual general meeting on May 9, Thomas Rabe, Bodo Uebber and Jing Ulrich were elected to the board. Rabe has been the chief executive of Bertelsmann since 2012, Uebber is financial director of Daimler and Ulrich ...
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David W. McCreight, a 56-year-old former president of Under Armour,...
David W. McCreight, a 56-year-old former president of Under Armour, Lands' End and Anthropologie, has been named a director of Wolverine Worldwide, replacing Joseph R. Gromek, who is retiring
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Saucony has named Shawn M. Hoy vice president of global...
Saucony has named Shawn M. Hoy vice president of global product. He will be in charge of design, development and strategy for the brand's footwear and apparel, which has not been performing well lately, especially in the U.S. Hoy reports to Anne Cavassa, who was appointed by Wolverine Worldwide as ...
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Scott Dunlap will be the new general manager of Runtastic,...
Scott Dunlap will be the new general manager of Runtastic, the Austrian-based fitness tracking system owned by Adidas, as of May 27. He will be working out of the company's head office in Linz alongside Mathis Gerkensmeyer, vice president of finance and operations, and two of the company's founders, Alfred ...
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Wilco Prins is leaving as chief executive of Rip Curl...
Wilco Prins is leaving as chief executive of Rip Curl Europe. His responsibilities will be taken over by Matthieu Lefin, the brand's head of group operations, who is already based in France. Lefin will continue to report to Michael Daly, the chief executive of the company. Prins first joined Rip ...
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John C. Lechleiter – the former chairman, president and chief...
John C. Lechleiter – the former chairman, president and chief executive of the pharmaceuticals company Eli Lilly – will not be standing for re-election to Nike's board of directors at the annual shareholders' meeting in September, although he will continue to serve until then. Lechleiter will be yielding his chairmanship ...
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Craghoppers, the British travel clothing specialist, is strengthening its German...
Craghoppers, the British travel clothing specialist, is strengthening its German sales team by hiring Christoph Schröder. The 30-year-old was most recently sales manager for Northern Germany at Kübler Sport. Also, Karolin Krohn will strengthen the marketing team at Craghoppers' European headquarters in Hamburg under the leadership of Oliver Robens. The ...
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Christophe Villemin, co-founder and new chief executive of Black Crows...
Christophe Villemin, co-founder and new chief executive of Black Crows (see our previous issue), has appointed a new manager in charge of operations, Nathalie Dougados, who has worked for Clarins, Christian Louboutin and Capgemini Consulting
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Bernard Liatti, a former top manager of the Rossignol Group,...
Bernard Liatti, a former top manager of the Rossignol Group, has been named senior adviser of the Wingate bank, in connection with its opening of an office in Lyon
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Kering and its parent company, Artemis, are keeping a foot...
Kering and its parent company, Artemis, are keeping a foot in the door at Puma. Héloise Temple-Boyer and Fiona May replaced two top executives from Kering, Jean-Marc Duplaix and Béatrice Lazat, on Puma's supervisory board at the company's annual meeting. Born in 1969, May won Olympic silver in the long ...
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Sergio Khiel has been appointed as the new chief executive...
Sergio Khiel has been appointed as the new chief executive and president of Fischer Skis' U.S. subsidiary, effective May 1. He takes the place of Ryan Leach, who left the company in December. Khiel served most recently as vice president of strategy and business development for DPS Skis. Prior to ...
