That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 83
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Gary Bryant, who has been with Amer Sports for 14...
Gary Bryant, who has been with Amer Sports for 14 years, is going to serve as general manager for its cycling division, which includes Mavic and Enve, following the resignation of Bernard Millaud, who has led it for 15 years. Bryant, who is a British citizen, has served most recently ...
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Steve Woodside has stepped down as senior vice president of...
Steve Woodside has stepped down as senior vice president of Columbia Sportswear in charge of global sourcing and manufacturing, after three years in this function. The company has initiated a search for his successor.
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Vic Sport will be the new exclusive distributor for Ortlieb...
Vic Sport will be the new exclusive distributor for Ortlieb in the Iberian Peninsula
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Man O'Leasure has taken over the distribution of Ferrino in...
Man O'Leasure has taken over the distribution of Ferrino in the U.K.
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Marchon, the eyewear licensee of Nike, has signed a deal...
Marchon, the eyewear licensee of Nike, has signed a deal with Blunae to act as the distributor of the Nike Vision line in the Spanish sports retailing channel
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La Cumbre will be the new distributor of La Sportiva...
La Cumbre will be the new distributor of La Sportiva in Chile
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Spyder Europe has enrolled Felix Burmann as a sales manager...
Spyder Europe has enrolled Felix Burmann as a sales manager for key German accounts and European distributors. Burmann, aged 39, started in July and comes with a strong background in key account management. Recently he worked for one-and-a-half years with The North Face as a key account manager and then ...
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Black Diamond has expanded its engineering team from six to...
Black Diamond has expanded its engineering team from six to ten persons, and it has added two outdoor industry specialists to its apparel development team. The four extra engineering staff are Greg Woolston, previously in product design at Skullcandy, who joined the lighting team. Tom Santoro is to focus on ...
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Trangoworld has been distributed by Stéphane Hanssens in Belgium since...
Trangoworld has been distributed by Stéphane Hanssens in Belgium since April. The Spanish brand of outdoor and sports apparel, which was previously sold by a sales agent in the country, has been able to offset declining sales in the Spanish market, which accounts for 70 percent of the brand's total ...
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Callaway Golf Co. has appointed Brian Lynch as its new...
Callaway Golf Co. has appointed Brian Lynch as its new chief financial officer. He will also continue as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Lynch, who joined Callaway in 1999, was named general counsel in 2012. He assumed the additional role of interim CFO in April, filling the ...
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The supervisory board of Kettler has appointed Olaf Bierhoff as...
The supervisory board of Kettler has appointed Olaf Bierhoff as the new managing director and chief financial officer to replace Stephan Mathys. The 53-year-old Bierhoff joins from Severin Elektrogeräte GmbH where he has worked for 17 years, most recently as head of finance and controlling as well as head of ...
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Carsten Schreiter has been appointed director of procurement for Willy...
Carsten Schreiter has been appointed director of procurement for Willy Bogner. His job will be to intensify relations between the sourcing and product development processes. The 48-year-old manager started his career at Klaus Steilmann, a big German apparel company. He then worked for the Holy Fashion Group and Strellson. He ...
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Martin Vergien has been appointed as vice president and managing...
Martin Vergien has been appointed as vice president and managing director of Coleman in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He formally takes over from Marc Hill, after several months in the same position on an interim basis. Vergien is taking charge on a regional basis of the Coleman, ...
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Christian Fischer will serve as the agent of Blackyak in...
Christian Fischer will serve as the agent of Blackyak in Austria
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Nixon, the brand of sports watches and accessories, will have...
Nixon, the brand of sports watches and accessories, will have a new chief executive, Scott Kerslake. The American manager is set to leave the Columbia Sportswear group on Aug. 18. The has been running Prana since 2009, building it up to reach a turnover of $100 million by 2014, when ...
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Creating a new position, Peak Performance has hired Miklos von...
Creating a new position, Peak Performance has hired Miklos von Pronay as urban sales representative for Central Europe. His job will be to expand the brand's sales in the fashion sector. Von Pronay comes from Tiger of Sweden, where he covered the German-speaking countries. He previously worked for Closed as ...
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Gary Klein is stepping down as chief financial officer of...
Gary Klein is stepping down as chief financial officer of Sequential Brands at the end of August, and the company's president, Andrew Cooperon, will take his place on an interim basis until a replacemen t is found
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Harold Rubrech, who left last year as CEO of Sport...
Harold Rubrech, who left last year as CEO of Sport 2000 International, is now running a printing company in Bruchsal, the Adam NG Group
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Davide Bertuzzi is taking over in October as the new...
Davide Bertuzzi is taking over in October as the new chief financial officer of Decathlon Italia. He joined Decathlon in Italy almost 20 years ago, but spent the last few years in finance management in France and Turkey. Returning to Italy, Bertuzzi will take the place of Lorenzo Mian, who ...
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Confirming the company's fashion-oriented approach, Canada Goose is proposing the...
Confirming the company's fashion-oriented approach, Canada Goose is proposing the nomination of Maureen Chiquet, a former CEO of Chanel, as a member of the board of directors at the shareholders' meeting scheduled for Aug. 15
