That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 68
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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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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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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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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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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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Tretorn is developing its online business with the aim of...
Tretorn is developing its online business with the aim of boosting the proportion of online transactions with consumers and through retailers and internet marketplaces. The long-term goal is for online sales to account for 40 percent of total sales. To achieve it, a new team of three employees has been ...
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Alpargatas, which owns the Havaianas brand of rubber shoes, has...
Alpargatas, which owns the Havaianas brand of rubber shoes, has made Scott Ziegler its new retail director for Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA), with responsibility for the region's 170 Havaianas points of sale, from mono-brand stores to franchisees and concessions. Ziegler is no stranger to the region, having ...
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Jason LaRose is leaving as president of North America for...
Jason LaRose is leaving as president of North America for Under Armour, after two and half years in which the brand's sales in the region kept declining. Meanwhile, Under Armour has a new senior marketing manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland: the 30-year-old Nicolas Schwartz succeeds Philipp Walter, who is ...
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Zalando has announced that Christian Baier and Jan Wilmking, both...
Zalando has announced that Christian Baier and Jan Wilmking, both managing directors of zLabels, will be leaving the company. zLabels, the e-tailer's nine-year-old private label division, was closed on April 1, although the company has indicated that it will continue to offer “everyday essential” clothing and footwear products under 11 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nixon, the American brand of watches and accessories, has appointed...
Nixon, the American brand of watches and accessories, has appointed Tom “TK” Kattus to the post of global brand sales director for Adidas Watches. Kattus has just spent ten years as general manager and chief operating officer at Campagnolo North America, the manufacturer of bicycle components. Before that he was ...
