All Executive changes articles – Page 78
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Marti Batalla, who founded Grifone in 1984, is leaving the...
Marti Batalla, who founded Grifone in 1984, is leaving the Spanish outerwear company after more than 20 years at its helm. His departure is related to the acquisition of a controlling stake in the company by Ramón Cierco, who began to invest in Grifone in 2011. Other shareholders are Sandro ...
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John McCarvel, who retired as president and chief executive of...
John McCarvel, who retired as president and chief executive of Crocs last April, has become lead investor and chairman of Xero Shoes, a U.S. company that produces versatile and lightweight performance and recreation sandals. Dennis Driscoll, who joined Xero three years ago and is now acting as its chief product ...
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Alibaba, the huge Chinese-based internet company that owns Tmall.com, the...
Alibaba, the huge Chinese-based internet company that owns Tmall.com, the Taobao marketplace and a dozen other operations, has hired a Canadian-born executive, Michael Evans, as president in its bid to expand internationally. He reports to Daniel Zhang, the group's chief executive who succeeded Jonathan Lu in May. His initial task ...
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Patagonia has hired Alex Beasley as its new country manager...
Patagonia has hired Alex Beasley as its new country manager for the U.K. & Ireland. The announcement has come after a series of recent hires and reorganizations as the company continues its restructuring across Europe. Beasley will manage Patagonia's wholesale business and support its retail and e-commerce strategy in the ...
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Peli, the U.S. speciality company for lighting solutions and robust...
Peli, the U.S. speciality company for lighting solutions and robust plastic cases for outdoor purposes, has hired Andy Comerford as consumer sales manager for its ProGear range of consumer products in the region of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. After serving various consumer goods companies, mainly in the U.K. ...
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Erwin van Dop, formerly in charge of Salomon and then...
Erwin van Dop, formerly in charge of Salomon and then Columbia in the Netherlands, has switched to Hi-Tec to become managing director for the Dutch footwear brand in the Benelux countries, along with Germany and Austria. He takes over from Peter Korver, who left earlier this year to become managing director ...
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Outdoor Research has a new marketing manager, Erika Canfield, who...
Outdoor Research has a new marketing manager, Erika Canfield, who worked in the last ten years for Pacific Market International (PMI), the parent company of Stanley and Aladdin
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Austrialpin has a new international sales manager, Helmut Knoflach, who...
Austrialpin has a new international sales manager, Helmut Knoflach, who previously did a similar job at Stubai
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Vincent Wauters, president of Arc'teryx, has been appointed head of...
Vincent Wauters, president of Arc'teryx, has been appointed head of the apparel business unit for the whole Amer Sports group, taking the place of Jean-Philippe Torgue, who has not been active for several months. Wauters will have a similar function as Jean-Marc Pambet, president of the Salomon brand, who is ...
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Hannes Oehler has been appointed area manager for Germany, Austria...
Hannes Oehler has been appointed area manager for Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe at La Sportiva. He has replaced Luigi Tamai, who left in January to join Tecnica. Oehler is to report to Lorenzo Sani, who became La Sportiva's sales and marketing director last November, switching over from Montura. La ...
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Sympatex Technologies has appointed Derk Spingler, 42, as vice president...
Sympatex Technologies has appointed Derk Spingler, 42, as vice president for North America. He takes the place of Stephen Kerns, who has become the president of Schoeller Textil USA. Kerns replaces Tom Weinbender, who is leaving after working for Schoeller for 35 years, the last 21 at the head of ...
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Topher Gaylord has resigned as president of Mountain Hardwear, the...
Topher Gaylord has resigned as president of Mountain Hardwear, the mountaineering brand owned by the Columbia Sportswear group. A dedicated ultra runner, Gaylord took the helm in 2010, after several years as an executive at The North Face and other parts of VF Corp. Scott Kerslake, the chief executive of ...
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In the autumn, Max Hofbauer will become chief executive of...
In the autumn, Max Hofbauer will become chief executive of Bergzeit.de, the Bavarian online outdoor store that was acquired by Italy's Sportler in 2012. He will gradually take the place of its founder, Klaus Lehner, who is 55 years old and plans to retire in February 2016. Hofbauer, 52, is ...
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The Lafuma Group has appointed a new brand manager for...
The Lafuma Group has appointed a new brand manager for Eider and is in the process of recruiting a brand manager for Millet. At Eider, Aurore Calmier takes the place left vacant a few months ago by the reassignment of a manager of the group, Thibaut Cornet, to the post ...
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PrimaLoft has announced the opening in June of its first...
PrimaLoft has announced the opening in June of its first wholly-owned subsidiary in Asia, and has hired Boris Lu as operations manager. The new office is located in Xiamen, China, a busy port city where the textile sector is well established, between the key destinations of Hong Kong and Shanghai. ...
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Deckers Brands has appointed Andreas Kost to the new position...
Deckers Brands has appointed Andreas Kost to the new position of sales manager of Hoka One One for the whole Central Europe region. He will run a sales team of two account managers and several field support representatives. Kost has worked for the Adidas Group and various streetwear and lifestyle ...
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Primaloft has appointed Stefan Brandt as sales & marketing territory...
Primaloft has appointed Stefan Brandt as sales & marketing territory manager for Austria, Switzerland and Southern Germany, reporting to Chris Humphris, European sales manager
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Isaac Alvear is the new U.S. director of sales for...
Isaac Alvear is the new U.S. director of sales for Hoka One One
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After four years at the top of Garmin Germany, Stefan...
After four years at the top of Garmin Germany, Stefan Bernard is to resign as managing director at his own request, effective mid-July. He will be replaced by Kai Tutschke who has been serving the GPS specialty company since 2008. Tutschke has been in charge of product marketing and sales ...
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Dick Heckmann, a former chief executive of K2, and William...
Dick Heckmann, a former chief executive of K2, and William Grant has stepped down as director of Jarden Corp., after reaching the mandatory retirement age. One of the seats on the board will be filled until the 2017 annual meeting by Peter Hochfelder, a founder and former managing member of ...
