Latest Executive Changes – Page 15
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New president and CEO to come at Thule
The Thule Group AB will be making Matthias Ankarberg – a member of the Thule Group board since 2018 – its president and CEO no later than Aug. 9. Ankarberg will be joining Thule from his current position as CEO of Byggmax Group. His former positions include global sales and ...
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New appointment to IAA Mobility aims to give cycling greater presence
Source: IAA Mobility Since its move from Frankfurt to Munich, the The International Motor Show (IAA, now IAA Mobility) has shifted from a pure automobile show to a mobility show. Within this context, the IAA Mobility team is working to get more exhibitors and visitors from the ...
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Exped hires new product manager
Source: Exped Mathieu Corbineau Swiss brand Exped has hired Mathieu Corbineau as its new product manager for its backpacks, stuff bags and gear bags, replacing the current product management team of Muriel Weber and Marc Raillard. The two will concentrate on other roles within the company. Weber ...
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Ortlieb has new product manager, implements new structure
Source: Ortlieb Falko Schott succeeds Rolf Kathrein-Lehmann as Ortlieb’s new head of product management With Rolf Kathrein-Lehmann retiring, Ortlieb is losing a long-term product manager. In total, Kathrein-Lehmann has been with Ortlieb, in various positions, for 28 years. He is being replaced by current Ortlieb senior product ...
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Teresa Schuster fills new role at Bergzeit
Bergzeit has hired business IT specialist Teresa Schuster for a new position: Head of operational excellence. Schuster is responsible for the set-up of a sustainable operations unit that will form the basis for further growth and improve the customer experience. In addition to the optimization of existing processes, the focus ...
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Vista Outdoor replaces CEO Chris Metz with interim chief Gary McArthur
The board of Vista Outdoor Inc, parent company of 41 brands in the outdoor and firearms sectors, has asked its CEO Chris Metz to resign from his role after the company’s board lost confidence in his leadership. The board, which named director Gary McArthur as Vista’s interim chief, said Metz ...
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Black Diamond names new brand president
Clarus Corp. has appointed industry veteran Neil Fiske as brand president of Black Diamond Equipment Ltd., where he will be responsible for accelerating growth and lifting the profitability of BD by capitalizing on attractive expansion opportunities across various categories, channels and regions. A CEO for nearly two decades, Fiske ...
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Red Chili brand without Hofstädter and Glowacz
With the start of the new year, Edelrid has taken over all responsibilities for the climbing equipment brand Red Chili from Stefan Glowacz and Uwe Hofstädter. The company was founded by the two German climbers in 1996 and is part of the Edelrid group since 2017 (as reported in OIC). ...
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Amer’s Enve Composites has a new GM
Source: Enve Composites Mike Stimola, Enve’s new GM U.S.-based Enve Composites, a manufacturer of carbon bicycle frames, wheels and components and, more recently, apparel, has a new general manager. Mike Stimola succeeded Jeremy Venz at the turn of the year. Under Venz, who joined Enve in 2005 ...
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Vista creates action sports division under outdoor umbrella, led by Fox Racing president
According to Shop Eat Surf, Jeff McGuane, president of Fox Racing, has been promoted at Vista Outdoor to lead a restructured Action Sports division, which includes Fox Racing, Bell, Giro, Blackburn, Krash, Copilot and Raskullz. Vista Outdoor acquired Fox Racing in August 2022. According to the same media source, McGuane’s ...
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Rumpl expands leadership team
Rumpl, the Portland, Oregon-based maker of high-quality outdoor blankets, announced the hiring of Kris Fry as creative director and internally promoted three team members: AshLee Anderson to director of marketing, Michael Archer to director of global operations and Emily Darby to director of supply chain planning. Fry joins the Rumpl ...
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Parent company of Deuter, Ortovox & Co. has a new CFO
Source: Schwan-Stabilo Anke Buttler The Schwan-Stabilo Group, which owns the Ortovox, Gonso, Maier Sports and Deuter brands, announced that Anke Buttler has become the group’s new chief financial officer (CFO), joining CEO Sebastian Schwanhäußer as part of the group’s executive management team on Jan. 1. With a ...
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Newell Brands sets restructuring plan, 13% of workforce lose jobs
Newell Brands, the consumer goods company that features Marmot, Coleman, Campingaz and Contigo in its portfolio of brands, is consolidating its five operating segments into three and eliminating approximately 13 percent of its office workforce headcount this year. The total cost of the actions is pegged at $100 to $130 ...
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Anta CEO hands over duties while group reshuffles management positions
To facilitate the implementation of the group’s “multi-brand” and “globalization” strategies, Anta Sports separated the roles of chairman and CEO and implemented several other executive changes.
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New CEO for bike components manufacturer BC
Source: Bike-Components Dominic Land Dominic Land is the new CEO in charge of Bike-Components, the German online retailer of bicycles and bicycle parts, since Jan. 1. He has taken over from Philipp Simon. The succession of Simon has been in the works for some time in close ...
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Third generation of the founding family taking the helm at Merida
Source: Merida With Vansen Tseng, the third generation of the founding Tseng family takes the helm at Merida. On Jan. 13, Taiwan’s second-largest bicycle and e-bike manufacturer Merida announced that Vansen Tseng will assume the position of president, effective Feb. 1, 2023, following approval by the board ...
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New GM at Ideal Bike Corporation
Following the resignation of Tim Lin as general manager of Ideal Bike Corporation, Taiwan’s third-largest bicycle and e-bike manufacturer, on Dec. 31, the company will now be led by Frank Chen, the former vice president of Ideal China. According to the company’s chairman Hermes Chang, Chen has already demonstrated his ...
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Vanessa Müller takes over as managing director of ClimatePartner Switzerland
Source: ClimatePartner Switzerland Vanessa Müller, new MD of ClimatePartner Switzerland Vanessa Müller, who joined ClimatePartner Switzerland in March 2021 and took over the team lead commercial sustainability a year later, has been promoted to the company’s new managing director. The move is part of the ongoing departure ...
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VF announces new appointments to TNF leadership team and more
Source: VF Mariano Alonso VF Corporation has announced new appointments to its leadership team in the EMEA region, including for The North Face (TNF), effective Jan. 31. Mariano Alonso — current general manager of Timberland EMEA — will be the new general manager of TNF EMEA. The ...
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Cotopaxi CEO steps down to serve Brazil mission
Davis Smith, founder and CEO of Cotopaxi, announced on Jan. 6 that he is stepping down as chief executive of the Utah-based outdoor gear company to return to Brazil, the place where he grew up and where the first seeds of the idea that would become Cotopaxi were planted. Smith ...