That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 98
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Wintersteiger, the Austrian manufacturer of ski maintenance and service machinery...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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Stefan Rosenkranz and Reinhold Hugo, who have been acting as...
Stefan Rosenkranz and Reinhold Hugo, who have been acting as country managers of Salewa Sport for Germany and Switzerland, respectively, are going to leave the Oberalp Group as part of the reorganization of its activities in Central Europe. Christoph Mannel, who has been the general manager of Oberalp Austria since ...
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Ecco Golf has announced the appointment of Andrzej Bikowski as...
Ecco Golf has announced the appointment of Andrzej Bikowski as its new lead designer, effective Aug. 15. Most recently, he was head of the design team at Ecco Sport. As an expert in industrial design and the shoe making process, Bikowski has worked at a number of lifestyle and sports ...
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Bridgestone Golf has hired Angel Ilagan as president and chief...
Bridgestone Golf has hired Angel Ilagan as president and chief executive, responsible for overseeing all aspects of the specialty sports-equipment maker's core business functions, including product planning, sales, marketing and customer operations. Ilagan comes with broad experience in marketing and luxury goods. Before joining the Covington, Georgia-based subsidiary of Bridgestone ...
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Wolverine Worldwide has announced the appointment of Mike Jeppesen, the...
Wolverine Worldwide has announced the appointment of Mike Jeppesen, the current president of its Global Operations Group, to an expanded role as president of the Wolverine Heritage Group, which includes the Wolverine, Harley-Davidson, Bates, and HyTest brands. He takes over from Ted Gedra, who has recently retired after 30 years ...
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Lululemon has announced the resignation of Rhoda Pitcher effective Aug....
Lululemon has announced the resignation of Rhoda Pitcher effective Aug. 3. Pitcher is the longest-serving board member whose very existence as a real person was questioned this summer by an article in TheStreet.com. A reporter from the news outlet was allegedly unable to reach her and questioned her educational credentials, ...
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Willy Bogner has appointed two new members to its executive...
Willy Bogner has appointed two new members to its executive board. Both of them have worked at Hugo Boss before, among other stations. One of the new members is Christian Ender, who joined Bogner at the beginning of this year to act as international sales manager. He will be responsible ...
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Sole Technology has appointed Esmail Mawjee as interim president of...
Sole Technology has appointed Esmail Mawjee as interim president of the company. Sole Technology's brands include Etnies, éS, Emerica, Altamont, ThirtyTwo and STI Lab. In his new position, Mawjee will report directly to the owner and chief executive officer, Pierre-André Senizergues. Mawjee most recently served as president of the Active ...
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Massimiliano Brunazzo is to take over at the start of...
Massimiliano Brunazzo is to take over at the start of October as the general manager for the business unit covering the training category at the Adidas Group. He takes over from Brian Grevy, who obtained the job two years ago and has left the group, apparently to become chief marketing ...
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Ulf Kinneson has resigned as chief executive of Intersport Sweden...
Ulf Kinneson has resigned as chief executive of Intersport Sweden after 3.5 years in the post, where he played a crucial role in transforming the buying group into an integrated retailer through a change of ownership. He will continue as a director of Intersport Sweden, and he will also join ...
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Confirming an article in Boardsports Source, Adidas says it is...
Confirming an article in Boardsports Source, Adidas says it is building up a dedicated action sports team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) under the Adidas Originals umbrella, servicing primarily the skate and snowboard community. The Western Europe unit has been run since last year by Bjorn Wiersma, ...
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Amer Sports has appointed Emilio Morabito as vice president in...
Amer Sports has appointed Emilio Morabito as vice president in charge of commercial portfolio management for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), replacing Markus Ense who left at the end of June after appointing several field sales managers and strategic account managers who are now working with the sales ...
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BRG Sports has announced the appointment of Dan Arment as...
BRG Sports has announced the appointment of Dan Arment as its new chief executive. He replaces Terry Lee, who will become a strategic adviser to the company and continue to serve as executive chairman. In addition, Arment has been promoted to chief executive of Riddell, the company's core football brand. ...
