Amer Sports has appointed Mike Dowse president of Amer Sports Ball Sports business area, effective November 4, 2013. Chris Considine, president Amer Sports Ball Sports, will leave the company at the same time. Dowse has worked as general manager for the Amer Sports Americas Region since 2010, and he has worked for Amer Sports for more than 20 years.
White has worked as general manager for the Amer Sports EMEA region since 2010, and he has worked for Amer Sports for more than eight years.
Mike Dowse and Michael White will continue to be members of the Amer Sports executive board, reporting to the President and CEO Heikki Takala.
“As Amer Sports has continued to deliver broad-based performance improvement, we now focus on re-igniting profitable growth also in Ball Sports. I'm pleased to have Mike Dowse, who is a strong leader with long track record, and importantly comes from the internal company bench, assume the role as Ball Sports President. Michael White, who now assumes the leadership for both our EMEA and Americas Regions, has delivered strong business results and strategic business transformation in the EMEA region, and I'm happy to have a proven internal leader being promoted to this larger role. The move with further regional integration also continues to follow our strategy to drive scale and synergies”, comments Takala.
Amer Sports' ball sports brand Wilson is the world's leading manufacturer of ball sports equipment. The core sports are tennis, baseball, American football, golf, basketball, softball, badminton and squash. Headquartered in Chicago, in the United States, Wilson employs over 1,500 people globally. Net sales of Ball Sports business segment were €570 million representing 28 percent of Amer Sports group revenue in 2012.
Amer Sports' brands include: Salomon, Wilson, Atomic, Arc'teryx, Precor, Suunto and Mavic.
