That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 85
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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 ...
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Fitness News Europe reports that Yan Martin has been appointed...
Fitness News Europe reports that Yan Martin has been appointed to take over from Chris Froio as vice president of Reebok for Western Europe from the start of August. Martin will lead the fitness apparel and footwear brand's market strategy in Western Europe, and he will report directly to Alain ...
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The Falke Group has appointed Martin Winkler as its new...
The Falke Group has appointed Martin Winkler as its new chief executive. The 48-year-old will replace Uwe Bergheim who has stepped down with his retirement. Winkler joins the German hosiery company from LG Electronics where he was chief operating officer responsible for the German consumer business. Previously, he worked for ...
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Lars Oolberg has been appointed to a new position as...
Lars Oolberg has been appointed to a new position as chief operating officer of Rapala VMC. He will be in charge of all its businesses except Russia, Japan and the Hooks division of the group, which handles manufacturing of fishing hooks. These other operations will report directly to Jussi Ristimäki, ...
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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
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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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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
