That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 84
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Monique Matheson, a woman who has spent 19 years at...
Monique Matheson, a woman who has spent 19 years at Nike in various roles, has been promoted to the position of executive vice president in charge of global human resources. Reporting directly to Mark Parker, chairman, president and chief executive of Nike, she is replacing David Ayre who will retire ...
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Accell Group has announced the appointment of Ton Anbeek as...
Accell Group has announced the appointment of Ton Anbeek as its new chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors, effective Nov. 1. Anbeek is currently the CEO of Beter Bed Holding. A pan-European group of companies operating in the area of beds and mattresses at wholeslae and ...
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David Dinis has been made account manager for Kappa in...
David Dinis has been made account manager for Kappa in Portugal
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CEP has appointed Lena Heinrich as its new apparel manager....
CEP has appointed Lena Heinrich as its new apparel manager. Heinrich, a trained textile designer and a successful triathlete, will join the clothing team of the compression brand led by Jochen Seitz. After completing her training as a seamstress, Heinrich studied design at the University of Hof. Her last position ...
