That are the most important people for the sporting goods industry – Page 99
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Frank Weissmann was recently appointed to the position of European...
Frank Weissmann was recently appointed to the position of European sales and marketing director for Fila tennis and accessories at Premium Sports Trading. Previously, the 45-year-old worked as sales manager for Eastpak and was for many years responsible for the tennis division of K-Swiss. Premium Sports Trading, based in Aalen ...
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Costa Del Mar has appointed Holly Rush as chief executive,...
Costa Del Mar has appointed Holly Rush as chief executive, effective April 25. She will replace Chas MacDonald, who announced his retirement as president and chief executive of the Essilor-owned brand of sunglasses last month. For the past 25 years, Rush had held key leadership roles at companies like Duracell/Gillette, ...
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Trond Langeland has been appointed chief executive of Viking Outdoor...
Trond Langeland has been appointed chief executive of Viking Outdoor Footwear, the Norwegian outdoor footwear brand owned by Bertel O. Steen. Langeland will take over on May 13 after serving in several other sales, marketing and executive functions in consumer goods companies such as Orkla, Jordan and Canon. For the ...
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Karsten Möhrer has been promoted by Bushnell to the role...
Karsten Möhrer has been promoted by Bushnell to the role of country manager for Germany and Austria. He had been in charge of marketing and key accounts since 2012. Möhrer takes the place of Gernot Trebsche, who is also European sales director for eyewear and sport protection as well as ...
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Black Diamond had originally intended to recruit a dedicated European...
Black Diamond had originally intended to recruit a dedicated European sales manager at its new office in Innsbruck. After talking to many candidates, the company has finally decided to extend the responsibilities of Stephan Hagenbusch, naming him as director of sales and marketing. He will work with a new strategic ...
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Evasion Running, the Spanish sporting goods chain specializing in road...
Evasion Running, the Spanish sporting goods chain specializing in road running, trail running and triathlon, closed two of its three corporate stores in the last few months. The Barcelona store, covering 600 square meters, closed its doors at the end of the year, while another store in Valencia, measuring 380 ...
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A highly publicized trio of former Nike designers, Denis Dekovic,...
A highly publicized trio of former Nike designers, Denis Dekovic, Marc Dolce and Mark Milner has finally joined Adidas. Dolce posted a photo of their three new Adidas badges on Instagram, on March 30. The trio's non-competition agreement with Nike went into effect when the group left the company, in ...
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GoPro's stock exchange quotation has gone up and down lately....
GoPro's stock exchange quotation has gone up and down lately. It jumped by 19 percent after the company announced the nomination of a new vice president of design, Daniel (Danny) Coster, who has been a core member of Apple's industrial design team for over 20 years. He will directly report ...
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Volcom has for the first time a global head of...
Volcom has for the first time a global head of women's, Lyndsey Roach, who is coming to the California-based subsidiary of Kering with 15 years of experience in strategy, marketing, development and sales. She was already vice president of women's marketing at Hurley, the action sports brand owned by Nike, ...
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Newell Rubbermaid, which agreed last December to acquire Jarden Corp....
Newell Rubbermaid, which agreed last December to acquire Jarden Corp. through a merger, has appointed Russ Torres to the newly-created position of chief transformation officer, starting on April 1. Reporting to Mark Tarchetti, who will become president of Newell Brands after the deal is completed, Torres will be in charge ...
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Diffusion Sport reports that Toni Amat started as sales director...
Diffusion Sport reports that Toni Amat started as sales director at Compressport at the beginning of March, after working at other specialist companies such as Precisport and Elements. Amat told the Spanish publication that the objective is to continue the Swiss brand's fast expansion of the last five years. The ...
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Kering has announced the appointment of Béatrice Lazat as its...
Kering has announced the appointment of Béatrice Lazat as its new human resources director, effective March 3. She replaces Belen Essioux-Trujillo, who has left to pursue other opportunities, the company said. Most recently, Lazat was based in Shanghai and worked at L'Oréal as human resources director for the Asia-Pacific region. ...
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Jean-Philippe Bailly has been appointed chief operating officer for the...
Jean-Philippe Bailly has been appointed chief operating officer for the Kering group, starting on April 1, with responsibility for the supply chain, logistics and industrial activities. Replacing Karlheinz Hofer, he will report to Jean-François Palus, deputy managing director of the group, which owns Puma and Volcom along a cohort of ...
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Linda Balfour has been appointed global director of marketing for...
Linda Balfour has been appointed global director of marketing for Superfeet on the eve of its biggest product launch to date – outdoor sandals with inbuilt insole support. Prior to this, Balfour spent 10 years in the marketing department of Keen Footwear with responsibilities ranging from overseeing field services, retail ...
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Implus has appointed Mary Hannah Statham as marketing manager. She...
Implus has appointed Mary Hannah Statham as marketing manager. She will be responsible for all marketing efforts for the Implus family of footwear accessory brands which includes Sof Sole, Sof Comfort, Sneaker Balls, Penguin, ForceField, Apara and Airplus. Statham worked as the director of marketing and communications for Springs Creative ...
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Johnathan Nielsen has been confirmed as chief executive of Backcountry.com,...
Johnathan Nielsen has been confirmed as chief executive of Backcountry.com, starting on March 11. He had been named interim chief executive last December after the former CEO chief executive, Jill Layfield, left in the wake of Liberty Interactive's sale of the American e-commerce company to TSG Consumer Partners last July. ...
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VF Corp. has named Scott H. Baxter as president of...
VF Corp. has named Scott H. Baxter as president of its outdoor and action sports group in the Americas, which includes Eagle Creek, Eastpak, JanSport, Kipling, Lucy, Napapijri, Reef, SmartWool, The North Face, Timberland and Vans. Baxter previously held the same role at VF's Jeanswear Americas. The new role is ...
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Matt Rubel, former chief executive of Collective Brands and Cole...
Matt Rubel, former chief executive of Collective Brands and Cole Haan, is now CEO of Varsity Brands, which recently acquired Lids Team Sports from Genesco
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Jill Williams is leaving as finance director of Pittards...
Jill Williams is leaving as finance director of Pittards
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One Way has a new distributor in Sweden, which will...
One Way has a new distributor in Sweden, which will also handle sales in Norway. The Finnish cross-country ski company had stopped a distribution contract with Nordic Trade for the Swedish market at the end of 2014 and handled the market directly, but the exercise proved to be tougher than ...
