DGAP-Adhoc: adidas AG: Kasper Rorsted to succeed Herbert

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

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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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Contact:

Media Relations    Investor Relations

Jan Runau    Sebastian Steffen
Chief Corporate Communication Officer Vice President Investor Relations
Tel.: +49 (0) 9132 84-3830  Tel.: +49 (0) 9132 84-4401

Katja Schreiber    Christian Stoehr
Senior Director Corporate Communication Director Investor Relations 
Tel.: +49 (0) 9132 84-3810  Tel.: +49 (0) 9132 84-4989
      

Please also visit our corporate website: www.adidas-Group.de


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Language:     English
Company:      adidas AG
              Adi-Dassler-Straße 1
              91074 Herzogenaurach
              Germany
Phone:        +49 9132 84 0
Fax:          
E-mail:       
Internet:     www.adidas-group.com
ISIN:         DE000A1EWWW0, US00687A1079, US00687P1049
WKN:          A1EWWW, A0MNCC  , 909676 
Listed:       Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated
              Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover,
              Munich, Stuttgart
 
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DGAP-Adhoc: adidas AG: Kasper Rorsted to succeed Herbert Hainer as CEO of adidas AG
