That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 95

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    Nautilus, the owner of Octane Fitness, has announced that Dennis...

    2016-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Nautilus, the owner of Octane Fitness, has announced that Dennis Lee will leave Octane at the end of the year. Lee is currently the company's vice president and general manager of commercial and specialty. Ryan Simat, a veteran of the company and the current vice president of sales, has been ...

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    Polar has appointed Tom Fowler as president of Polar USA....

    2016-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Polar has appointed Tom Fowler as president of Polar USA. He will be responsible for all segments of the business including sports technology, corporate wellness, consumer fitness, club, education and team sport. Prior to Polar, he served at Intel as director of marketing and sales of head-worn devices. He previously ...

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    Brooks France has named Franck Mesnage, formerly at Asics France,...

    2016-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Brooks France has named Franck Mesnage, formerly at Asics France, as its new general manager. He takes over from Christophe Vatinel, who has been at the helm of the company for over ten years. Brooks France posted revenues of €9.8 million in 2015.

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    Jonas Netterström will take the helm as chief executive at...

    2016-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Jonas Netterström will take the helm as chief executive at Cycleurope at the end of this year. Netterström currently serves as CEO of an investment company, Elajo Invest. The Swedish bicycle company has been without a CEO since Mårten Nydahl quit in the early summer. Since then, the company's chairman, ...

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    Federico Musi is the new chief executive of Look Cycle,...

    2016-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Federico Musi is the new chief executive of Look Cycle, replacing Dominique Bergin who sold a majority stake in the French company this summer to an investment fund, Activa Capital. Musi is described as a multi-lingual, 44-year-old manager who covers 5,000 km each year on his bike. The Italian native ...

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    Michael Burk has been appointed as chief executive at 21...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Michael Burk has been appointed as chief executive at 21 Sports Group, after Jörg Mayer, the founder and largest shareholder of the online sports retailer, became chairman of the supervisory board. The changes also led to the appointment of Henner Schwarz as chief financial officer and chief operating officer. Both ...

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    Christopher Lindner joined Acushnet last month as president of FootJoy....

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Christopher Lindner joined Acushnet last month as president of FootJoy. He acted previously as president of Keds, one of the footwear brands owned by Wolverine Worldwide, which is now led by Gillian Meek. More in Shoe Intelligence.

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    An Adidas veteran, Timo Pape, has joined Odlo International in...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    An Adidas veteran, Timo Pape, has joined Odlo International in the new position of brand director, responsible for category management, design and marketing. He had been assisting Odlo in these areas and in communication since last year. After working for seven years at Adidas in Portland and Herzogenaurach, and two ...

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    Alexander Wirth has been promoted to the position of chief...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Alexander Wirth has been promoted to the position of chief executive of Willy Bogner & Co., taking the place of Willy Bogner, who remains as chairman and main shareholder of the German sports apparel company that bears his own name. After the owner's failure to sell the company at a ...

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    Andrew Cooper has been named president of Sequential Brands, reporting...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Cooper has been named president of Sequential Brands, reporting to Yehuda Shmidman, chief executive of the parent company of And 1, Avia, Revo and other brands. He was previously senior vice president of Priceline.com and then a partner of Pegasus Capital Advisors

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    Fischer has appointed for the first time a marketing manager,...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Fischer has appointed for the first time a marketing manager, Jan Ekmark, who will restructure the existing marketing team of the Austrian ski company and cover digital marketing, sports marketing, trade marketing and other domains. Born in Sweden, Ekmark spent more than seven years with Adidas before he joined the ...

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    Canada Goose has appointed Lee Turlington to the new position...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Canada Goose has appointed Lee Turlington to the new position of chief product officer and Kevin Spreekmeester to the new position of chief brand officer. Turlington, who worked previously in leading roles for Nike, Patagonia, The North Face and Fila, had been a consultant of Canada Goose over the last ...

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    Wintersteiger, the Austrian manufacturer of ski maintenance and service machinery...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Wintersteiger, the Austrian manufacturer of ski maintenance and service machinery and storing solutions, appointed Florestan von Boxberg, 54, as its new chief executive, or head of its board of management. He takes the place left vacant a year ago by the departure of Reiner Thalacker. Von Boxberg worked as project ...

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    Stadium, Sweden's largest sporting goods chain continues to switch its...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Stadium, Sweden's largest sporting goods chain continues to switch its management. Magnus Wåhlander will now be leaving his role as country manager in Sweden and become instead HR Director in charge of all personnel within the international retail chain. The new Swedish country manager is Mattias Johansson. He joined Stadium ...

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    Oliver Wöhrl has given up as chief executive of Wöhrl,...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Oliver Wöhrl has given up as chief executive of Wöhrl, a major German department store chain owned by his family that is trying to avoid insolvency proceedings after applying for bankruptcy protection for one of its subsidiaries. The head of the supervisory board, Andreas E. Mach, is taking over his ...

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    Officials of Intersport France decline to comment until next Tuesday...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Officials of Intersport France decline to comment until next Tuesday about a report in sport-guide.com that Corinne Gensollen, 48, will be the new general manager of the French retail group. She would take the place of François Neukirch, who is planning to start up his own Intersport store at Herblay ...

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    Marco Dippe is the new German country manager of Lacoste,...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Marco Dippe is the new German country manager of Lacoste, responsible also for the other German-speaking countries and Scandinavia, taking the place of Sanjiv Singh who left in May

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    David Sharp has handed in his resignation as president and...

    2016-09-09T00:00:00Z

    David Sharp has handed in his resignation as president and chief executive of Rocky Brands as well as a director of the American company, where he has served in various management roles since 2000. Mike Brooks, chairman, will take over his functions on an interim basis until his successor is ...

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    Siegfried Passreiter, who is now 61 years old, has retired...

    2016-08-19T00:00:00Z

    Siegfried Passreiter, who is now 61 years old, has retired from Fischer and Löffler after 18 years of work for the Austrian company, where he acted most recently as managing director of its German subsidiary. As planned, his position has been taken over by Walter Wensauer, sales manager of the ...

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    In a bid to bolster its accelerating international business, Under...

    2016-08-19T00:00:00Z

    In a bid to bolster its accelerating international business, Under Armour has named a company veteran, Kip Fulks, as chief product officer, and recruited two new executives to its senior management team - Colin Browne as president of global sourcing, and Andy Donkin as chief marketing officer. Both men will ...