Victor Duran resigns as CEO of Intersport International

After two years as IIC CEO, Victor Duran has resigned. The exact circumstances of his resignation with immediate effect are still unknown. Intersport International at least declares that the American left the company "by mutual agreement". The IIC Executive Board has decided to strengthen cooperation between management and the Executive Board.

Steve Evers will succeed Duran. He has been a member of the IIC Executive Board since 2015. The 52-year-old will take up his new position in spring 2019. Until then, IIC presented an interim solution. Martin Künzi, who was previously Deputy CEO and has been with the company since 1999, will temporarily take over the position as CEO.

"Steve Evers knows the retail and sporting goods market and our customers very well," says IIC Chairman Jussi Mikkola. Under Evers' leadership, Intersport Netherlands and The Athlete's Foot have become some of the driving forces behind the implementation of the current Intersport 2.0 group strategy, which includes key initiatives such as multi-channel retailing or a new store concept.

Over the past two years, Duran has insisted primarily on expanding its Internet business and has thus begun the urgent transformation within the company. Forwarding this information in order to be prepared for the future will now become Evers' priority task. With a turnover of 11.5 billion euros (2017), Intersport is the world's second largest sporting goods retailer after Decathlon. Intersport has more than 5,600 stores in 45 countries.