All Executive changes articles – Page 74
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Roman Stepek, chief executive at Mountain Force, has left the...
Roman Stepek, chief executive at Mountain Force, has left the Swiss winter sports apparel company and is preparing to divest the remainder of his shares to existing shareholders in April. His job was taken over on an interim basis by Werner Matzner, Mountain Force's chief financial officer and one of ...
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Rodney McMullen, chairman and chief executive of The Kroger Company,...
Rodney McMullen, chairman and chief executive of The Kroger Company, will join the board of directors of VF Corp. He will also serve on the board's audit committee and its nominating and governance committee.
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Jim Howard has been appointed as U.S. general manager for...
Jim Howard has been appointed as U.S. general manager for Inov-8, the British brand of trail running footwear. He is to supervise U.S. sales, marketing and operations from the brand's regional head office near Boston. Howard started off in the sports business as the manager of The Runners Den, a ...
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Bryson White has been appointed as brand manager for Suunto...
Bryson White has been appointed as brand manager for Suunto in the Americas, to take care of the communication and marketing strategy for the sports instruments brand, which is owned by the Amer Sports group. While working with the product and executive teams in Finland, White's assignment is to raise ...
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Nathan Dopp has been appointed to lead Fjällräven and Hanwag...
Nathan Dopp has been appointed to lead Fjällräven and Hanwag in North America, after the departure of John Walbrecht last month to become president of Mountain Hardwear at the Columbia Sportswear group. Dopp already contributed to the rapid expansion of the Swedish outdoor brand in the U.S. market, as he ...
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Columbia Sportswear has appointed John Walbrecht as brand president for...
Columbia Sportswear has appointed John Walbrecht as brand president for Mountain Hardwear, starting from March 7. Walbrecht has accompanied the rise of the Fjällräven brand in the U.S. market as the chief executive of Fenix Outdoors North America since 2012. He is to take charge of all aspects of the ...
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Fashion-Power, the big Chinese OEM producer of sports apparel that...
Fashion-Power, the big Chinese OEM producer of sports apparel that has started marketing its own Tittallon brand, is now representing an Italian brand of outdoor footwear, Gronell, on the Chinese market. It presented the line at the recent Ispo Beijing trade show.
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MGM has announced the appointment of another industry veteran, Robert...
MGM has announced the appointment of another industry veteran, Robert Demetz, as sales manager for its two outdoor brands, Kayland and Trezeta. He will report to Marco Foglio, president of the group, who previously held this role, which has become more demanding following MGM's recent acquisition of Kayland. After working ...
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Aigle has appointed Marie-Laure Rigal-Raffard as its new global marketing...
Aigle has appointed Marie-Laure Rigal-Raffard as its new global marketing and communications director. She comes from Lacoste, which is controlled by Maus Frères like Aigle. She previously worked for two other fashion houses, Lanvin and Louis Vuitton.
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Vaude has announced two new executive appointments. Manfred Meindl, 34,...
Vaude has announced two new executive appointments. Manfred Meindl, 34, will be in charge of trade marketing, and Aaron Bittner, 31, will act as apparel manager of the company. Meindl will continue to be responsible for online marketing, which he has led for five years with good results in social ...
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As part of increased investments in the British market, Patagonia...
As part of increased investments in the British market, Patagonia has hired Lisa Douglas as marketing manager for the U.K. and Ireland, starting from the beginning of March. Previously at Musto and Bench, Douglas will be based at the office and showroom opened by the outdoor brand in a Victorian ...
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Jason Zhu has been appointed as general manager of...
Jason Zhu has been appointed as general manager of Columbia Sportswear's joint venture in China with Swire Resources. He replaces Alice Lai who returned to a position withg Swire as part of a planned transition. A native of Shanghai, he spent the last 13 years with Nike in China and ...
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Icebreaker has appointed Carla Murphy as its new chief marketing...
Icebreaker has appointed Carla Murphy as its new chief marketing and strategy officer. In this role she will be responsible for developing the brand's strategy, at a time when Icebreaker aims at growth both in and outside of its outdoor core market. Murphy was most recently vice president of the ...
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Kelty has promoted Anne Miltenberg to the position of operations...
Kelty has promoted Anne Miltenberg to the position of operations manager. The American company says she played key roles in product development and testing to enhance the Kelty Built for Women initiative. She has worked for the company for almost three years, most recently as sales coordinator. A special adventurer, ...
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Andy Rubin, chairman of Pentland Brands, has joined the board...
Andy Rubin, chairman of Pentland Brands, has joined the board of JD Sports Fashion as a non-executive director to support the British retailer's international expansion, thanks especially to his experience in brand development outside Europe. The Pentland Group, which is controlled by the Rubin family, owns 57.47 percent of the ...
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Petzl's North America sales director, Kenneth Thomas (Tom) Adams, has...
Petzl's North America sales director, Kenneth Thomas (Tom) Adams, has been chosen by Utah's Office of Economic Development as the new director of the state's Office of Outdoor Recreation. Adams has worked in Utah's outdoor recreation industry for more than 20 years. In addition to Petzl, he has worked in ...
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Marmot Mountain will have for the first time a general...
Marmot Mountain will have for the first time a general manager with global responsibility for product, sales and marketing. The role has been assigned to Joe Flannery, who worked for Adidas in Germany and the U.S. and then served as vice president of global marketing for The North Face. In ...
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Polygiene, the Swedish specialist in odor control and freshness technologies,...
Polygiene, the Swedish specialist in odor control and freshness technologies, has appointed Colleen Nipkow as marketing director for North America. Nipkow has already spent over two decades in the outdoor industry, focusing on marketing and communications for companies ranging from Black Diamond Equipment to Gregory Mountain Products and Scarpa.
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Pat Loomis, who has built up several European brands in...
Pat Loomis, who has built up several European brands in the U.S. market, announced that he was retiring earlier this month. He was president of Bergans USA, the North American subsidiary of the Norwegian outdoor brand. Loomis will be replaced in this job by Keith Patterson, who was previously vice ...
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Peter Metcalf, the founder and chief executive of the Black...
Peter Metcalf, the founder and chief executive of the Black Diamond group, has been appointed chairman of the board of directors for the Salt Lake City branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for 2016. Two years ago he became a board member for the same branch in ...
