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Head has announced the launch of Head Winter Sportswear in...
Head has announced the launch of Head Winter Sportswear in North America and the promotion of Julia Couperthwait to business manager of Sportswear North America. Couperthwait has extensive experience in the outdoor and fashion industries, specifically in brand marketing, merchandising and design. She will oversee all aspects of the Winter ...
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Fjällräven assigned Dean Polic to the position of country manager...
Fjällräven assigned Dean Polic to the position of country manager for Germany at the beginning of this year. He succeeds Lars Ryslev, who is taking the newly created position of head of global sales for Central Europe at Fenix Outdoor, parent company of Fjällräven. Polic, 47, will be leading Fjällräven's German ...
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Mike Jensen has been made president of Reef, the beach...
Mike Jensen has been made president of Reef, the beach lifestyle brand recently divested by VF Corp. He was most recently the general manager and brand manager of DC Shoes at Boardriders. He previously worked for Asics, Spy and Converse. Jensen will report directly to Gregg Ribatt, the new chief ...
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Early this year, Uwe Gottschalk became a member of the...
Early this year, Uwe Gottschalk became a member of the executive board at Vaude, the German maker of mountain-sports gear. For the past three years, Gottschalk has led the Products Division at Vaude, focusing on sustainability and innovation. During his tenure, the proportion of sustainable Green Shape products in apparel ...
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Tom Ceulemans has been hired by Nemo Equipment to serve...
Tom Ceulemans has been hired by Nemo Equipment to serve as its first European sales manager, reporting to a newly appointed vice president of global sales, Mike Welch. Both have already been connected with the rather original American brand of camping equipment, which has been growing rapidly in recent years, ...
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Timberland continues to hire new people in a bid to...
Timberland continues to hire new people in a bid to regain some momentum. As of Feb. 1, Chris McGrath is Timberland's new vice president of global footwear design, for men's, women's and children's footwear. He reports directly to Jim Pisani, the company's global brand president, and will be relocating from ...
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Vista Outdoor, the parent company of Camelbak, has confirmed the...
Vista Outdoor, the parent company of Camelbak, has confirmed the appointment of Dirk Ostertag as its new senior sales director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The German executive is taking over the responsibility for the region from a British executive, Andy Shand, who was based in London, ...
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Microban, which develops chemical treatments for textiles to control odor...
Microban, which develops chemical treatments for textiles to control odor and prevent the spread of microbes, has appointed Maté Dzakula to the post of business development manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Dzakula was born in Croatia and raised in Sydney. He will be working out of ...
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Jörg Tichy will be serving as marketing director at Löffler as of...
Jörg Tichy will be serving as marketing director at Löffler as of February 2019. He succeeds Reinhard Hetzeneder, who is retiring. Tichy worked previously as marketing director for Komperdell, the Austrian manufacturer of ski poles. Before joining Komperdell, the 43-year-old worked for several years in Fischer Sport's marketing department. In his new position ...
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Many new executives have started working for Royal Robbins since...
Many new executives have started working for Royal Robbins since the American brand of travel and adventure gear was taken over last March by Fenix Outdoor International, the Swedish group, formally based in Switzerland, that owns Fjällräven, Tierra and other outdoor brands as well as Globetrotter and other outdoor specialty ...
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In keeping with a recent change in strategy, Accell Group,...
In keeping with a recent change in strategy, Accell Group, the Dutch parent of such cycling brands as Haibike, Lapierre, Raleigh, Atala and XLC, has begun the search for a new chairman. The current chairman, Ab Pasman, will remain a director for a further year. Once the new chairman is ...
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Pure Fishing has announced the appointment of Harlan M. Kent...
Pure Fishing has announced the appointment of Harlan M. Kent as its new chief executive. He replaces Neil Eibeler, who has left the company. Pure Fishing was recently acquired by Sycamore Partners. Kent has more than 30 years of experience, including roles at the Performance Sports Group, Totes Isotoner, and ...
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Zebco Brands has announced the appointment of Frerk Petersen as...
Zebco Brands has announced the appointment of Frerk Petersen as managing director of Zebco Europe, and that of Simon Morris as commercial manager of Preston Innovations, a subsidiary of Zebco Brands. Petersen has been director of marketing and product development for Europe since early 2011. Morris joins Preston from Shimano ...
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Klaus Wurmseder has come back to Roeckl as head of...
Klaus Wurmseder has come back to Roeckl as head of sales, occupying a post that he had held from 2006 to 2012
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Jon Rucker has been promoted to president of the Winter...
Jon Rucker has been promoted to president of the Winter Sports Division at Head/Tyrolia USA, located in Boulder, Colorado. Rucker has been with Head for more than nine years and has spent the last seven as vice president of Winter Sports. According to Kevin Kempin, chief executive and president of ...
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In a bid to stimulate innovation and diversification, particularly in...
In a bid to stimulate innovation and diversification, particularly in its important sports segment, Superdry has appointed a new creative director, Phil Dickinson, who held a number of senior roles at Nike, including global creative director for football and for Nike Sportswear. He was a creative director for Umbro while it ...
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Rob DeMartini, who stopped working as president and chief executive...
Rob DeMartini, who stopped working as president and chief executive of New Balance at the end of 2018, is set to become the new CEO of USA Cycling, an association that promotes the sport
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Ironman, a subsidiary of Wanda Sports Holdings, has promoted Jennifer...
Ironman, a subsidiary of Wanda Sports Holdings, has promoted Jennifer Mocerino to chief merchandise officer. She will be retaining her seat on Ironman's Executive Committee. Mocerino joined the company in 2010 as vice president of merchandise for North America, where she developed a business unit in Tampa, Florida. She has ...
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Sport 2000 International has hired an experienced, business analyst, Erika...
Sport 2000 International has hired an experienced, business analyst, Erika Schuh, to help the group to evaluate the big data collected by its national retail organizations in order to make better decisions through an analysis of internal processes and market developments. Schuh had already helped the group with data analysis ...
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Thierry Lavigne, one of the retail members of Sport 2000...
Thierry Lavigne, one of the retail members of Sport 2000 France, has taken the place of Frédéric Poux as chairman of the voluntary group following the exit of the Activa Capital investment fund. Poux, who formerly ran a chain of franchised optical retail shops, Alain Afflelou, had been appointed to ...
