Huntington Beach-based Quiksilver Inc. named two executives Thursday to head its business in Europe and the Americas.
The maker of surf-inspired clothes named Marty Samuels to run its Americas operation and Pierre Agnes to head Europe.
The move puts in place a new management setup designed to oversee Quiksilver’s growing global empire.
Samuels formerly was president of Quiksilver’s men’s clothing business in the Americas. Agnes was managing director of Quiksilver Europe.
Along with Clive Fitts, president of Quiksilver’s Asia Pacific operation, the newly appointed executives form the company’s senior global management team.
All three executives are set to report to Bernard Mariette, Quiksilver’s president and architect of the company’s pending buy of France’s Skis Rossignol SA.
The global executives will create a “tight-knit group of like-minded managers,” Mariette said in a statement.
The creation of the team should help Quiksilver “focus more intently on the proper integration of the Rossignol Group into our corporate structure,” Mariette said.
Quiksilver is paying about $320 million to buy Rossignol, a troubled maker of skis and related products. The deal is expected to close this month.
Also on Thursday, Quiksilver said it is buying the Canadian distributor of its DC Shoes unit for about $7 million.
