All Executive changes articles – Page 99
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Röjk, a small Swedish outdoor and lifestyle brand, plans to...
Röjk, a small Swedish outdoor and lifestyle brand, plans to open a pop-up store in the French ski resort town of Val d'Isère. The company, founded only four years ago, managed to find a small retail space in a popular location, right on the town square. It will open for ...
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Deckers Brands has promoted Dave Powers to the role of...
Deckers Brands has promoted Dave Powers to the role of president of the company. In his new role, he will lead the omni-channel, as well as each of the brand teams. Deckers' portfolio of brands includes Ugg, Teva, Ahnu, Sanuk, and Hoka One One. Powers joined Deckers in 2012 as ...
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Patagonia has promoted Bruce Old to the position of vice...
Patagonia has promoted Bruce Old to the position of vice president of global wholesale. His mission will be to elevate the company's presence in all specialty retail channels, continuing to build up a global customer service team. Old has spent more than 20 years with Patagonia, working in retail, wholesale ...
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Sport Partner reports that Regatta is closing its subsidiary in...
Sport Partner reports that Regatta is closing its subsidiary in the Netherlands and that distribution of the Regatta and Dare2B brands is to be handled from the start of May by Corvus Sports. This is a new agency formed by Erik Kray, who has been the Dutch country manager for ...
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Vista Outdoor, the sporting goods and outdoor company recently spun...
Vista Outdoor, the sporting goods and outdoor company recently spun off from Alliant Techsystems (ATK), has appointed a vice president of marketing, Brett Merrell, and a vice president of investor relations, Michael Pici. They report to Mark DeYoung, chairman and chief executive of Vista Outdoor. Merrell has been placed in ...
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Primaloft has promoted Victoria Lee to manager of creative services,...
Primaloft has promoted Victoria Lee to manager of creative services, with immediate effect. Lee joined the company in 2006 and most recently served as brand and promotions associate. In her expanded role, she will assume a wider range of responsibilities in global creative and branding. She will also serve as ...
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Light My Fire is entering the Spanish market through a...
Light My Fire is entering the Spanish market through a distributor, Esportiva Aksa
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Sport Partner reports that Irene Keur, marketing manager at Garmin...
Sport Partner reports that Irene Keur, marketing manager at Garmin Nederland for the last four years, has left the company ahead of her formal departure at the start of April to to join Acer, and she will be temporarily replaced by Martin Snel
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Vertical Sports will stop representing Thorlo on the Spanish market...
Vertical Sports will stop representing Thorlo on the Spanish market from April 30, after 12 years of collaboration
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Amer Sports Europe has appointed Armin Fuchs to the new...
Amer Sports Europe has appointed Armin Fuchs to the new position of vice president of sales, coordinating all the various sales organizations in Europe. The 44-year-old had already been promoted in 2012 from the position of German country manager to general manager for the Central Zone, covering Germany and nine ...
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Cocona has announced the appointment of Edouard Liffran to the...
Cocona has announced the appointment of Edouard Liffran to the new position of European general manager for 37.5, the performance fiber previously marketed under the Cocona brand name, which is experiencing growing demand in Europe. Liffran will continue to be based in France. He has more than 20 years of ...
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Arc'teryx has named Stéphane Tenailleau to the newly-created role of...
Arc'teryx has named Stéphane Tenailleau to the newly-created role of senior manager, EMEA consumer and channel marketing. Tenailleau, 42, will be leading an eight-member team based in Garching, north of Munich. The French national has a strong background across the fashion, sport and apparel industries. Most recently, he worked on ...
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Bergans, the Norwegian outdoor company, is searching for a chief...
Bergans, the Norwegian outdoor company, is searching for a chief executive as Ragnar Jensen is preparing to retire. This was confirmed by ads placed in Scandinavian trade publications. The 71-year-old Jensen has been in charge since 1981 but he previously worked for Ally, a brand of canoes and kayaks taken over by ...
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Mark S. Hoplamazian, a director and former president and CEO...
Mark S. Hoplamazian, a director and former president and CEO of Hyatt Hotels Corp., has joined the board of directors of VF Corp., which has been expanded to 13 members. Two director, Ursula O. Fairbarn and George Fellows, will not stand for re-election because of a minimum retirement age of ...
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Robert Suter has resigned as chief executive of Conzzeta, the...
Robert Suter has resigned as chief executive of Conzzeta, the Swiss holding company that controls the Mammut Sports Group, by mutual consent with the board of directors. He had held the post for six years. The group's chairman, Ernst Bärtschi, will run the executive board on an interim basis, pending ...
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Christian Benedikt, 35, has become sales manager of Hilleberg The...
Christian Benedikt, 35, has become sales manager of Hilleberg The Tentmaker for the German-speaking countries and the Netherlands, directly reporting to the Swedish company's managing director, Göran Svensk. As reported in the following article, the German native comes from Bridgedale, where he worked for the last two and a half ...
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Prana generated only 5 percent of its sales outside the...
Prana generated only 5 percent of its sales outside the U.S. by the time the brand was acquired by Columbia Sportswear last year. Prana has now reported the creation of a new position of director of international sales. Starting on Feb. 2, it will be filled by Pacho Bedoya, who ...
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Hydro Flask, the 7-year-old American supplier of stainless steel bottles,...
Hydro Flask, the 7-year-old American supplier of stainless steel bottles, has two new executives. Leanne Champion has been the company's director of marketing since last Dec. 18, and Jon Smith started as director of product on Jan. 5. Smith comes from Black Diamond Equipment, where he has been in charge ...
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Catherine Faidherbe, a former executive of Adidas, has been named...
Catherine Faidherbe, a former executive of Adidas, has been named marketing manager for Icebreaker, based at its European office near Munich
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Salewa North America has announced two new appointments. Steve Kropf...
Salewa North America has announced two new appointments. Steve Kropf will act as director of sales for the company's various brands: Salewa, Dynafit, Pomoca and Wild Country, and Dan Fiore will serve as product line manager for apparel. They will report to Chris Sword, president of Salewa North America. Kropf ...
