That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 82
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Tor Jenssen has been appointed as chief marketing officer at...
Tor Jenssen has been appointed as chief marketing officer at Helly Hansen following the departure of Erik Burbank, who held the job for less than two years but previously covered much the same functions as Helly Hansen's senior vice president of brand and marketing. Jenssen has been with the Norwegian ...
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Moritz Maier has been appointed as head of marketing at...
Moritz Maier has been appointed as head of marketing at Alpina Sports, the specialist in winter sports helmets and eyewear. Maier was previously at Head Sportswear, where he spent three years as international marketing manager, after six years in multimedia management and key account marketing at Mammut Sports Group. Maier ...
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Primaloft has appointed Clark Jin as sales and marketing manager...
Primaloft has appointed Clark Jin as sales and marketing manager for the Asia-Pacific region, a newly-created role, effective Sept. 11. Jin has more than 18 years of experience in sales, marketing and merchandising positions at companies including Kufner Textile, W.L.Gore, Itochu and Smart Garment. He is an expert in functional ...
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Wolverine Worldwide has appointed Stewart Whitney as vice president and...
Wolverine Worldwide has appointed Stewart Whitney as vice president and managing director of its Asia-Pacific division. He comes from Timberland, where he led its Asia-Pacific business for six years before becoming president of the brand in 2014. He left Timberland in July of last year, when he was replaced by ...
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Oriol Mercadal has been appointed country sales manager of Helly...
Oriol Mercadal has been appointed country sales manager of Helly Hansen for Spain and Portugal
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Iconix Brand Group has appointed Jane DeFabio as executive vice...
Iconix Brand Group has appointed Jane DeFabio as executive vice president in charge of women's and home furnishings, overseeing Danskin and Ocean Pacific among other properties
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Oberalp is restructuring Salewa's sales and marketing teams after promoting...
Oberalp is restructuring Salewa's sales and marketing teams after promoting one staff member and attracting an external hire. Mark Landenberger is now responsible for Salewa's sales and marketing for the entire Austrian, German and Swiss region. Martin Stolzenberger has also joined as a key account manager. Landenberger has been in ...
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Barry A. Hytinen, 42, has been appointed chief financial officer...
Barry A. Hytinen, 42, has been appointed chief financial officer of Hanesbrands, parent company of Champion and other brands, succeeding the retiring Richard D. Moss
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Christoph Görner joined Sport 2000 Germany on Sept. 1 to...
Christoph Görner joined Sport 2000 Germany on Sept. 1 to work on Laufprofis, the specialty running retail format of the voluntary group, which currently involves 120 retailers. Together with his colleague Marc Schreiner, he reports to the manager of Laufprofis, Jörg Seifert. Görner worked for 18 years at Runners Point, ...
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Sebastian Janus has left Foot Locker Europe to undertake voluntary...
Sebastian Janus has left Foot Locker Europe to undertake voluntary work in Asia and South America. The 32-year-old chief financial officer of the company's European e-commerce business finished the job at the end of August. Janus joined Foot Locker's management team in 2013, after establishing Tredex, a specialist in e-commerce, ...
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Neil Venables, former senior director of field sales at the...
Neil Venables, former senior director of field sales at the Adidas Group in the U.K., is taking over from Tom Foley as general manager of Intersport UK, covering the U.K. and Ireland. The handover started in August to make sure Venables is fully operational ahead of Foley's departure on Sept. ...
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T.J. McMeniman, who served most recently as global marketing director...
T.J. McMeniman, who served most recently as global marketing director at Bauer Hockey, has been appointed vice president of marketing at Costa, the American brand of sports sunglasses recently acquired by Essilor International. He will have global responsibilities, reporting to Holly Rush, chief executive of Costa. Before joining Bauer in ...
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Bergans is strengthening its international sales force. The new international...
Bergans is strengthening its international sales force. The new international focus includes the appointment of John-Olav Evans as international strategic account manager. In this new position, he will be responsible for serving and developing relations with Bergans' distributors and key strategic clients in the international market. Another new recruit is ...
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Michele Norsa, the former top manager of Benetton Sportsystem and...
Michele Norsa, the former top manager of Benetton Sportsystem and Sergio Tacchini who worked as managing director of Salvatore Ferragamo for ten years until last year, has agreed to serve as vice president of Gruppo Biagiotti, helping the young Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna after the sudden death last spring of her ...
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Creating a new position, Walter Wansauer has been named by...
Creating a new position, Walter Wansauer has been named by Fischer as head of sales for both Germany and Austria. The executive, who has been with the company for nearly 20 years, had been appointed a year ago as country manager for Germany, taking the place of Siegfried Passreiter after ...
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Schöffel has appointed Karoline Rettig as head of marketing. The...
Schöffel has appointed Karoline Rettig as head of marketing. The 46-year-old replaces Wolfgang Helmberger. Rettig has been with Amer Sports since 2006. At Amer, she was initially in charge of marketing for the cycling division in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Afterwards she was promoted to GTM (Go to Market) trade ...
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Claudia Lange has been appointed head of media relations at...
Claudia Lange has been appointed head of media relations at the Adidas Group. Lange assumed the newly created position, based at the headquarters in Herzogenaurach in Germany, at the beginning of August. She is responsible for the global media relations team and for the management and coordination of the media ...
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Footjoy has announced that Russell Lawes has been appointed sales...
Footjoy has announced that Russell Lawes has been appointed sales and marketing director for the U.K. region with immediate effect. For the past ten years, he has served as Footjoy's marketing manager. Lawes will be responsible for the overall sales and marketing operations in the U.K., Ireland and South Africa ...
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Brunswick Bowling Products has announced three promotions within the company,...
Brunswick Bowling Products has announced three promotions within the company, which come after the appointment of Corey Dykstra as the new chief executive in July of this year. Brian Graham has been named vice-president of consumer and aftermarket products. Graham previously led sales and marketing. Billy Orlikowski has been promoted ...
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Boardriders has appointed Alexandre Malsch as global digital brand manager...
Boardriders has appointed Alexandre Malsch as global digital brand manager for Quiksilver and Roxy, based at its European headquarters on the Basque Coast of France and reporting to the company's chief executive, Pierre Agnès. Nine years ago the 32-year-old manager co-founded a French online media group, the Melty Group, and ...
