News Briefs – Page 391
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Carlyle, the private equity fund, has divested its remaining 7.13...
Carlyle, the private equity fund, has divested its remaining 7.13 percent interest in Moncler for €215 million, selling more than 17.8 million shares at a unit price of €12.04, 0.5 percent higher than the closing price of the previous day, but then Moncler's share price has fallen by 23 percent ...
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Thule Group has hired London-based Rothschild to help spin off...
Thule Group has hired London-based Rothschild to help spin off its two-bar business, which is worth $122 million a year, as it continues to refocus on the sports and outdoor sector. The Swedish group closed the sale of its entire trailer business to Accent Equity 2012, a Swedish investment fund, ...
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Jack Wolfskin has decided to extend the use of Microsoft...
Jack Wolfskin has decided to extend the use of Microsoft Dynamics AX software from enterprise resource planning (ERP) to retailing, merchandising and customs clearance. The solution replaces a smaller Microsoft system, Navision. Microsoft has already developed a “virtualized warehouse project” for Jack Wolfskin to accelerate shipments and provide continuous availability ...
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Patagonia has expanded its partnership with 7thonline to cover its...
Patagonia has expanded its partnership with 7thonline to cover its e-commerce and physical retail operations, in addition to wholesale planning and forecasting. The goal is to gain complete visibility into global demand across all retail channels and geographic regions in order to develop better product ranges and greater inventory productivity ...
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Martin Kössler, the 42-year-old former export manager of Haglöfs who...
Martin Kössler, the 42-year-old former export manager of Haglöfs who recently resigned as secretary general of the Scandinavian Outdoor Group, has become chairman of the board at Bergans of Norway. He replaces the 82-year-old Per Nessjøen, who is retiring. Two more new directors continue to sit on the board of ...
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Alex Kutches, who has spent the last eight years or...
Alex Kutches, who has spent the last eight years or so in leading positions at Outdoor Research, has become vice president of sales and marketing for Mystery Ranch, an American supplier of very technical and practical backpacks for Special Forces, ski patrollers, fire brigades and other mission-oriented clients. One of ...
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Oboz has named Christian Mason as its national sales manager...
Oboz has named Christian Mason as its national sales manager for the U.S., effective June 15. Mason will lead Oboz' independent sales force for North America, and develop overall strategies to stimulate the continued growth of the outdoor footwear company in the domestic market. Mason comes with 20 years of ...
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Anders Blomster will be the new marketing manager at Lundhags....
Anders Blomster will be the new marketing manager at Lundhags. In August, he will replace the current marketing manager, Sara Wänseth. Blomster has served as marketing manager at Naturkompaniet, the Swedish outdoor retail chain, and at an internet store, Outnorth.
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Two professionals with experience in female-oriented products are joining the...
Two professionals with experience in female-oriented products are joining the product design and development team of Mountain Hardwear, working under Robert Fry, director of product merchandising and product for this subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear. Bringing women-specific expertise from the years she spent as product line manager at Columbia and Eddie ...
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Jochen Lagemann, Primaloft's managing director for Europe, has been granted...
Jochen Lagemann, Primaloft's managing director for Europe, has been granted additional responsibilities. As well as Europe, he will also be in charge of Asia. This position is new. At the same time, the American specialty company for insulation solutions has appointed Eileen Berner to the role of sales director for ...
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Antti Jääskeläinen, Amer Sports' chief development officer and senior vice...
Antti Jääskeläinen, Amer Sports' chief development officer and senior vice president for the group's supply chain and global operations, will leave the group and its executive board in mid-August. He has been with the company since 2009, but he has accepted a new position outside Amer Sports.
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Tom Jungell, who has been with Footbalance since 2011,...
Tom Jungell, who has been with Footbalance since 2011, is leaving as its chief executive to move on to new challenges. Klaus Rauhansalo, who is said to have a long career and extensive experience with large corporations and small start-ups, has been designated as interim CEO of the Finnish company, ...
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Joachim Sjödin, who has been responsible for the Scandinavian market...
Joachim Sjödin, who has been responsible for the Scandinavian market at Peak Performance since 2012, sees his territorial coverage expanded in the new position of European sales director. In addition to the Nordic countries, he will also take care of France, Benelux and the German-speaking countries. Andreas Scheibe, who has ...
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2XU has appointed Scott Taylor to be its first president...
2XU has appointed Scott Taylor to be its first president for the U.S. The move comes after L Capital Asia, an investment vehicle controlled by LVMH, sealed the acquisition of a 40 percent stake in the Australian performance sports and compression apparel brand last December. Taylor comes to 2XU with ...
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Doug Boessen, former chief financial officer of Collective Brands, has...
Doug Boessen, former chief financial officer of Collective Brands, has joined Garmin as CFO and treasurer, reporting to the company's president and chief executive, Cliff Pemble. Boessen had worked previously at Arthur Andersen. Kevin Rauckmann, who has been Garmin's CFO and treasurer since 1999, will assist Boessen in the transition through ...
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Johnson Outdoors has appointed Gianluca Bugli as director of sales...
Johnson Outdoors has appointed Gianluca Bugli as director of sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for the company's Diving business. These new responsibilities are in addition to Bugli's continued strategic oversight of European sales and marketing for the company's Marine Electronics business. Bugli has more than 25 ...
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Pentland Brands has appointed Richard Newcombe brand president for Lacoste...
Pentland Brands has appointed Richard Newcombe brand president for Lacoste Footwear. He takes the place of Andy Simister, who left the company last October and is now working for Wolverine Worldwide (see the article in this issue). Newcombe has been in the footwear industry for 27 years. He joined Pentland ...
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Schöffel, the German marketer of outdoor and snow sports apparel,...
Schöffel, the German marketer of outdoor and snow sports apparel, has appointed a couple of new managers in the sales and product development departments. Effective July 1, Bernd Dietrich will switch from Vaude to Schöffel and will assume the new role of international sales manager, reporting to the brand manager, Christophe ...
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Fros International is going to stop acting as Berghaus' distributor...
Fros International is going to stop acting as Berghaus' distributor in the Benelux countries at the end of the year, as the outdoor brand is going to sell directly in the country, starting with orders for the spring/summer 2015 collection. Angela Dugdale, European sales manager of Berghaus, will add full ...
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Following its recent decision to put an end to Lowe...
Following its recent decision to put an end to Lowe Alpine's apparel line, Equip Outdoor Technologies is stopping some of the related foreign distribution contracts for the brand. Equip will take care of Lowe Alpine's Spanish clients directly, starting with orders for the spring/summer 2015. The current Spanish distributor of ...
