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David Crothers has been appointed as the new chief executive...
David Crothers has been appointed as the new chief executive of Julbo's U.S. subsidiary. Reporting to Pierre Burgelin, Julbo's international sales director, he is taking the place of Nick Yardley. Crothers has been working for the French brand of sports eyewear as U.S. marketing manager since 2015. In 2008, he ...
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Columbia Sportswear has announced the appointment of John Soh as...
Columbia Sportswear has announced the appointment of John Soh as vice-president and general manager of China. The appointment will be effective in mid-February 2019. In his new role, he will report to Doug Morse, senior vice-president of emerging brands and APAC. Soh joins Columbia from Lego, where he was a ...
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Nike has announced that John W. Rogers, Jr. has been...
Nike has announced that John W. Rogers, Jr. has been appointed as a new member of the company's board of directors. Rogers, 60, is the founder, chairman, chief executive and chief investment officer of Ariel Investments. He founded Ariel Investments in 1983, with a focus on undervalued small and medium-sized ...
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The Aligro Group, the Swedish company that took over Henri...
The Aligro Group, the Swedish company that took over Henri Lloyd earlier this year (SGI Europe Vol. 29 N° 21+22 of July 3), had appointed new managers with experience at companies like Musto and Peak Performance. One of them is Tomas Frydebo, who previously worked for Trendmark, the Swedish distributor ...
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Lowa has announced that Alexander Nicolai will join the top...
Lowa has announced that Alexander Nicolai will join the top management on Jan. 1 as joint managing director alongside Werner Riethmann, the German company's longtime chief executive, and Rudolf Limmer and Matthias Wanner, the commercial director and international sales manager. Nicolai has been heading up design and product development at ...
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Guillaume de Monplanet has become again the general manager of...
Guillaume de Monplanet has become again the general manager of Adidas France, according to sport-guide.com. He had already held the post between 2012 and last year, when he moved to Herzogenaurach to serve as senior vice president of the Adidas brand in Europe. Nicolas Favre, who ran France in the ...
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Troy Sicotte will be Columbia Sportswear's vice president of North...
Troy Sicotte will be Columbia Sportswear's vice president of North American sales for the Mountain Hardware brand as of Oct. 22, 2018. He will report to Joe Vernachio, the brand's president. Sicotte has spent well over a decade in the footwear and outdoor industries, first at Birkenstock USA and then ...
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Chris Pawlus is the new vice president of product design...
Chris Pawlus is the new vice president of product design and innovation at Keen, the Portland-based maker of outdoor shoes. He will oversee the Outdoor, Lifestyle and Kids departments. Pawlus joins Keen from Timberland, where he spent 21 years, most recently as creative director and vice president of global product ...
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Callaway Golf has expanded its board of directors to ten...
Callaway Golf has expanded its board of directors to ten members with the addition of Laura J. Flanagan, current CEO of Foster Farms, who is credited with experience in corporate strategy, marketing, retail and operations
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Hans Dohrmann has been placed at the head of Internetstores,...
Hans Dohrmann has been placed at the head of Internetstores, the online sport retailing platform owned by the Signa Sports Group. He replaces Christian Bubenheimer, who spent only six months in the post. Dohrmann was the founder of a Swiss e-bike specialist, M-Way, which he ran under the ownership of ...
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Zalando appointed two new vice presidents this month. Sara Diez,...
Zalando appointed two new vice presidents this month. Sara Diez, previously working as senior buying director for Europe and the Middle East at Nike, became vice president for Zalando's product line for woman. Diez succeeds Dalbir Bains, who left Zalando after four years. Before her career at Nike, Diez worked ...
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Yann Tschumi has been appointed chief executive of Compressport International,...
Yann Tschumi has been appointed chief executive of Compressport International, the Swiss producer of compression garments for running and other activities. He will work closely with Sylvain Laur, president and founder of the company. Tschumi spent the last six years as vice president of sales for Rip Curl in Europe ...
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Jet Set, the ski and sports apparel brand based in...
Jet Set, the ski and sports apparel brand based in Switzerland, has assigned Michael Michalsky, a well-known German fashion designer, to the position of creative director. Michalsky previously worked as a designer at Levi's and was until 2006 the creative director of Adidas. He has cooperated with several brands, among them ...
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Bogner has promoted Anthony Joly-Pottuz, currently sales manager for France,...
Bogner has promoted Anthony Joly-Pottuz, currently sales manager for France, to country manager for the French market. He will succeed Raphaël Bouvet, who has left the German winter sports apparel brand to join Mammut. Joly-Pottuz has previously worked for Nike, Boards & More and Poc.
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Nike has announced the appointment of Ann Hebert as vice-president...
Nike has announced the appointment of Ann Hebert as vice-president of global sales. She will replace Mike Best, who has decided to retire after nearly 30 years with the brand. Hebert is another Nike veteran, with 23 years at the company. Most recently, she was general manager of Asia-Pacific and ...
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Mizu, the American brand of reusable bottles, has hired two...
Mizu, the American brand of reusable bottles, has hired two new executives while it is introducing a new water filtration and purification category. Craig Smith, who has been most recently the European sales and marketing manager of Dragon, will serve as European sales and marketing manager of Mizu Europe. Scott ...
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Runtastic, the mobile fitness company owned by Adidas, has announced...
Runtastic, the mobile fitness company owned by Adidas, has announced that its co-founder and chief executive, Florian Gschwandtner, will withdraw from operational management and leave the company, effective Dec. 31, 2018. He has been with the start-up for nearly ten years. Alfred Luger and Christian Kaar, respectively chief financial officer ...
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John W. Rogers Jr., a 60-year-old financial exports who founded...
John W. Rogers Jr., a 60-year-old financial exports who founded Ariel Investments in 1983, has joined Nike's board of directors
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Lacoste has selected for the first time a woman, Louise...
Lacoste has selected for the first time a woman, Louise Trotter, as the brand's creative director, replacing Felipe Oliveira Baptista after eight years in the post. Trotter comes from the U.K., where she has been in charge of style for a British fashion brand, Joseph, during the last nine years. ...
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Oy Sultrade, one of the major distributors of sports products...
Oy Sultrade, one of the major distributors of sports products in Finland and the Baltic countries, has a new chief executive, Sari Rosin, replacing Risto Salo, the former CEO of Halti, who is leaving the company. Rosin, 46, will remain CEO of Oy Transmeri Ab, one of the subsidiaries of ...
