adidas AG — Board/Management Information 2016

Jan 18, 2016

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Ad-hoc | 18 January 2016 11:46

adidas AG: Kasper Rorsted to succeed Herbert Hainer as CEO of adidas AG

adidas AG / Key word(s): Change of Personnel

18.01.2016 11:46

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For immediate release January 18, 2016
AD HOC: Kasper Rorsted to succeed Herbert Hainer as CEO of adidas AG

Herzogenaurach - Kasper Rorsted (53), currently Chief Executive Officer of
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, is to succeed Herbert Hainer (61) as CEO of adidas
AG. At today's extraordinary meeting of the Supervisory Board in
Herzogenaurach, he was appointed as ordinary member of the Executive Board
effective August 1, 2016 and CEO of adidas AG effective October 1, 2016.
After a two-month transition period, Herbert Hainer will relinquish his
Executive Board mandate effective September 30, 2016, prior to the expiry
of his Executive Board service contract at the end of March 2017.

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Company: adidas AG
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