That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 75
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Chris Adamek, who has been a management consultant more than...
Chris Adamek, who has been a management consultant more than 20 years for Columbia Sportswear and other companies, has been named vice president and chief of staff for the Columbia brand, reporting to Joe Boyle, executive vice president and brand president of Columbia
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Willi Jungen, who has been the Swiss country manager of...
Willi Jungen, who has been the Swiss country manager of Jack Wolfskin for 11 years, will become the chief executive of Snowlife, the Swiss producer of winter gloves, starting in September. He will take the place of Daniela Wenk, owner of the Swiss company, which is also the local distributor ...
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Eric Cuenot, general manager at Nike France since October 2012,...
Eric Cuenot, general manager at Nike France since October 2012, has been appointed to lead several key sports categories in Latin America and Asia Pacific, Sport-guide.com reports. Cuenot already obtained extra responsibilities as vice president and general manager for Nike France as well as Northern Europe from October 2016. He ...
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O.Mustad & Son has announced the appointment of Anders Nygård...
O.Mustad & Son has announced the appointment of Anders Nygård as global brand manager, to further develop the brand's offering in the global recreational fishing tackle market. Nygård has spent the last six years with Mustad and Rapala VMC.
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Christoph Frechen has been appointed as global general manager of...
Christoph Frechen has been appointed as global general manager of marketing at Intersport International Corporation (IIC), after nearly 16 years in the Adidas Group. The function was previously held by Franz Penka. Frechen has held several positions at the Adidas Group, mostly working as brand director and marketing manager, at ...
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Nike has appointed Noel Kinder as vice president and chief...
Nike has appointed Noel Kinder as vice president and chief sustainability officer from Sept. 5. He has already been with the company for the last 19 years, most recently as vice president in charge of sustainable manufacturing and sourcing. Kinder was also general manager at Nike Vietnam, in charge of ...
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Poc Sweden has appointed David DeMartini as global chief marketing...
Poc Sweden has appointed David DeMartini as global chief marketing and digital officer, Cornelia Lenz as global digital director and Lina Elfstrand as creative brand and marketing director
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Cristiano Portas, who left as chief executive of Arena in...
Cristiano Portas, who left as chief executive of Arena in 2016 after working for the company since 1999, has now left as CEO of Stefanel, an Italian fashion company, after only six months in the role
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Karen Reuther has been assigned to the position of global...
Karen Reuther has been assigned to the position of global creative director at Reebok, responsible also for brand identity and design implementation. Reuther will work together with the product development and marketing teams of Reebok. From 1998 to 2010, Reuther worked for Nike, ending up as its global creative director. ...
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Michael D. Christensen has become the new general manager of...
Michael D. Christensen has become the new general manager of Ecco for Central Europe, taking over from Frank Dissmann who had been responsible for the region since January 2017. He will work with new product manager for Central Europe, Christian Fischer, who comes from the Mammut Sports Group, replacing Annette ...
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Ulf Santjer, who has been in charge of Puma's corporate...
Ulf Santjer, who has been in charge of Puma's corporate communications for more than two decades, is leaving the company as part of the re-organization of its global communications department. Santjer built up this entity as he accompanied Puma's rise, slump and rise again over the years, working under three ...
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Cathleen Benko, vice chairman and managing principal of Deloitte Consulting,...
Cathleen Benko, vice chairman and managing principal of Deloitte Consulting, has joined Nike's board of directors to help the group in its new digital transformation strategy. The 59-year-old expert has spent more than 30 years with the consultancy. She was appointed by Deloitte in 1998 as its first global e-business ...
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Calvin McDonald, who has spent the last five years as...
Calvin McDonald, who has spent the last five years as president and chief executive of Sephora in the Americas, has been appointed as Lululemon Athletica's chief executive from Aug. 20. Lululemon said that Sephora, the perfume and cosmetics retailer in the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton group, delivered double-digit growth ...
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Thomas Lange, who started Keen Europe together with Richard Litzel...
Thomas Lange, who started Keen Europe together with Richard Litzel and two other managers 13 years ago, is leaving the company in mid-October to become the new general manager of GEB, a German voluntary group of shoe retailers specializing in higher-end footwear. The members include big names like Prange and ...
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Jon Sinko, who spent the last 20 years in the...
Jon Sinko, who spent the last 20 years in the action sports division of the Adidas Group, has joined Element as vice president in charge of merchandising and design. Sinko was most recently global head of product marketing for skate apparel, footwear, accessories and snowboarding at the Adidas group, based ...
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Amer Sports has appointed Jon Hoerauf as president in charge...
Amer Sports has appointed Jon Hoerauf as president in charge of the sports apparel category, a function that is meant to enable faster growth and to take more advantage of synergies in the Finnish group's apparel business. It has re-formed an apparel category structure that includes the Arc'teryx, Salomon and ...
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Christian Fischer has been appointed as the new product manager...
Christian Fischer has been appointed as the new product manager for Central Europe at Ecco. From July, the 41-year-old replaces Annette Wächtler, who will continue to work as senior category manager for Ecco's shoe collection for women at the company's headquarters in Denmark. Before joining Ecco, Fischer worked for the ...
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In the autumn, Jens Nyström will make a switch from...
In the autumn, Jens Nyström will make a switch from Haglöfs to Björn Borg, where he will assume the comparable position of chief financial officer at the Swedish sportswear and underwear brand. Nyström has a varied resumé, having held the same position with a pharmaceutical company, Sanofi, in Sweden. Previously, ...
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Kant, the big Russian retailer and wholesaler of sporting goods,...
Kant, the big Russian retailer and wholesaler of sporting goods, has agreed to take over from Sportmaster as the exclusive distributor for Saucony in the Russian Federation, starting with the third quarter of 2018. It is already offering free training in running to its customers, and many of its employees ...
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Neil Fiske, who recently resigned as chief executive of Billabong,...
Neil Fiske, who recently resigned as chief executive of Billabong, has been named as global brand director of Gap
