Giancarlo Zanatta, president of Tecnica Group, leaves as president of Assosport, the Italian sporting goods industry association, after eight years in which the membership has grown from 13 to 140 companies. His successor at the head of the association is Luca Businaro, chief executive since 2005 of Novation, the sophisticated product development company that took over the former Italian Olivieri and Bauer business after Nike’s pull-out. It subsequently bought Kayland, a small Italian brand of climbing footwear. The companies represented on the board of the association include Benetton Group, Dainese, Garmont, Mab, Westscout and W.L. Gore & Associates and some others.
