That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 76
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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
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Hummel has a new footwear buying and product manager, Lone...
Hummel has a new footwear buying and product manager, Lone Kier Droob who worked previously for Dansk Supermarked and Salling
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Klaus Jost, the very religious former joint chief executive of...
Klaus Jost, the very religious former joint chief executive of Intersport Germany and chairman of Intersport International, is now running the sales and marketing operations of a German publishing house for religious books, SCM Verlagsgruppe, that published his own book, “Jost läuft,” last February
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Matthias Jendryschik is leaving the position of German marketing manager...
Matthias Jendryschik is leaving the position of German marketing manager for all the brands of Amer Sports, which he has held for three years, to return to Salomon as the new brand manager for Central Europe. He will be replaced by Julia Schehl, who has been working as Salomon brand ...
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James JJ Gonzales, who has worked for Volcom for 16...
James JJ Gonzales, who has worked for Volcom for 16 years, has been named men's design director. The company has also hired Erica Yary as global women's marketing director.
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Ralph Nicoletti will retire at the end of 2018 as...
Ralph Nicoletti will retire at the end of 2018 as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Newell Brands
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Tor Fadum-Aas, a fromer strategic account manager for Amer Sports,...
Tor Fadum-Aas, a fromer strategic account manager for Amer Sports, will serve from next August as the new Norwegian sales director for the Swix Sport Group, responsible for sales in the country of its Swix, Toko, Ulvang, Lundhags and Helsport brands
