UA elevates Massimo Baratto as chief consumer officer in management reshuffle
Under Armour has promoted Massimo Baratto to the interesting new position of executive vice president and chief consumer officer, effective Nov. 1. He has been serving since May 2018 as managing director of the company’s EMEA region, based in Amsterdam.
Two new top managers for Intersport International
Christian Wille, a 43-year-old German citizen who holds a university degree in international finance, will take the place of Martin Künzi as chief financial officer of Intersport International Corp. (IIC) as of January 2022. He will join IIC’s executive management board at the same time as Mateja Jesenek, a 54-year-old ...
Asos’ CEO quits in connection with a profit warning
The chief executive of Asos, Nick Beighton, is departing the U.K.-based online fashion retailer in a shock move as the company issued a profit warning, citing supply chain issues and rising costs combined with a slowdown in its growth. Asos is facing “notable cost headwinds” from inbound freight fees, wage ...
Revo boosts sales management, launches new high-end range
While launching a new high-end line of sunglasses, Revo has appointed three new vice presidents. Jerry Bedingfield is now vice president of sales for the sport and specialty segments in North America, while Christoph Nitz and Kurt Plunger both now hold that same title for Europe. Bedingfield has been working ...
Bollé Brands hires new executives for e-com, sales, marketing and CSR
The Bollé Brands Group has hired new executives for its marketing, business, e-commerce and corporate social responsibility departments to support a plan to strengthen both its digital and local presence, to raise awareness of all the group’s brands - Bollé, Cébé, Spy+ and Serengeti - and to strengthen its socially ...
New MD, narrowed focus for Rossignol’s Spanish ski plant
The head of Skis Rossignol de España, Enric Casas, is retiring in October at the age of 65, after 35 years with the company. Casas joined Rossignol in 1986 as an engineer and went on to become a technical manager. He was appointed managing director of the Spanish manufacturing subsidiary ...
A new CEO for SportScheck
Signa Retail has appointed Matthias Rucker, a partner of the Boston Consulting Group, as the new CEO of SportScheck, in replacement of Thomas Wanke. Starting on Oct. 1, he will be tasked with expanding the digital transformation of the German sporting goods retail chain into an experiential platform for sports ...
WeSports makes many purchases and adds e-com pioneer Johan Ryding to its board
The young Swedish WeSports group has engaged in a big shopping spree, taking over many companies in the last few months. It has also announced that Johan Ryding has joined the company’s board of directors. Ryding is one of the founders of Sportamore, the first Nordic online sports store, and ...
Amer names Fogliato as Salomon’s president and CEO
Amer Sports has found a new and experienced executive with an excellent background in the sporting goods industry, Franco Fogliato, to head up Salomon as president and CEO. He will take on the responsibily by March 15, 2022, at the latest. Columbia Sportswear announced a few days ago that Fogliato ...
Ashley passing CEO role at Frasers to his daughter’s fiancée
Michael James Wallace Ashley, who founded the company now called Frasers Group in 1982 and owns 64 percent of its shares, is planning to hand over the position of CEO to Michael Murray on May 1, 2022, after the end of the company’s current financial year. A statement from the ...
Teyssier becomes Puma’s general manager for Europe
Puma has appointed a new general manager for Europe, Richard Teyssier, effective from Sept. 1, taking over many of the functions of Arne Freundt, who joined the executive board as chief commercial officer of the company in June.
JD upgrades its forecast, reinstates the CEO role
Confirming a report that came out in The Sunday Times in May, which had been initially denied, Peter Cowgill, executive chairman and CEO of JD Sports Fashion, revealed a plan to divide his role before the next annual general meeting of the company one year from now, adding that “a ...
Gymshark’s co-founder and main shareholder replaces Hewitt as CEO
Starting on Aug. 1, Ben Francis, the 29-year-old entrepreneur who co-founded Gymshark in 2012 and is the British fitness apparel brand’s controlling shareholder, will take over the role of CEO from Steve Hewitt, who had been appointed managing director in 2015 and promoted to CEO two years later. Francis has ...
A digital expert will be Wolverine’s new CEO
Blake Krueger, who was reported a few weeks ago to be 66 years old, with a net worth of more than $40 million, is gradually relinquishing his functions at Wolverine Worldwide, where he has worked for 28 years. The 52-year-old Brandan Hoffmann, who took his place as president of the ...
John Colonna takes the helm at K2-MDV
After three years as president of K2 Sports, John Colonna has been named president and CEO of K2-MDV Holdings. Based in Seattle, he will be responsible for the Marker Dalbello Völkl (MDV) and K2 Sports businesses, overseeing the global presence of all its brands and their products including K2 skis, ...
ABG places Apex’ former CEO in charge of EMEA
The Authentic Brands Group (ABG), the rapidly expanding New York-based brand ownership and licensing group founded and run by Jamie Salter, has set up a subsidiary for the EMEA region in London and hired Henry Stupp to run it. As president of ABG EMEA, he is tasked of driving ABG’s ...
Head will be run by a team
As previously reported in SGI Europe, Johan Eliasch is stepping down as CEO of the Head group, effective immediately, in connection with his election on June 4 as the new president of the International Ski Federation (FIS). As the majority shareholder of the Austrian-based company, which he took over in ...
Eliasch quits as Head’s CEO
It’s now official. As previously reported, Johan Eliasch had pledged to step down as CEO of Head if he would be elected president of the International Ski Federation (FIS), which actually happened on June 4. A statement from Head has confirmed his resignation – effective immediately - as CEO of ...
New boss and new structures for the Luhta group
Juha Luhtanen, 51, became the new managing director of the Luhta Sportswear Company on May 4, taking the place of his older brother, Vesa Luhtanen, who has retired after many years at the helm of the Finnish-based family-owned company, previously known as the L-Fashion Group. The change of management has ...
Swiss Snowsports Initiative appoints new VP
The non-profit organization Swiss Snowsports Initiative appointed Virginie Faivre as its vice president at the start of May. She has replaced Pierre Pfefferlé, who was instrumental in the development of the initiative’s website, GoSnow.ch. A native of Lausanne, Faivre is a former world freestyle ski champion and now sits on ...