Sports group Decathlon’s new chief executive, Barbara Martin Coppola, took up her new role in mid-March. Decathlon announced her appointment earlier in the year.

Ms Martin Coppola has joined the group from Ikea, where she held the role of chief digital officer. Earlier in her career, she worked at Texas Instruments and Google.

She said Decathlon’s values reflected her own and that she also identified closely with the challenges the group faces. She said the most important of these was to keep delivering high-quality products and services “to make sport accessible to the highest number of people possible and, through that, to improve people’s health and wellbeing”.

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