{"id":10604,"date":"2018-06-20T10:59:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T14:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10604"},"modified":"2018-06-20T10:59:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T14:59:44","slug":"datatrac-apparel-specialty-stores-department-stores-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/06\/datatrac-apparel-specialty-stores-department-stores-june-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Apparel Specialty Stores and Department Stores \u2013 June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Academy Sports & Outdoors (187)<\/strong> said that J.K. Symancyk has resigned as CEO. The retailer has appointed Ken C. Hicks as Chairman and CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Avenue Stores, LLC (40)<\/strong> has appointed Mark Walsh as CEO. He succeeds Liz Williams. The retailer also recently named Scott Hampson as COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Columbia Sportswear Company (167)<\/strong> named Michael Richardson as VP of Global Merchandising.<\/p>\n

\u2022 David\u2019s Bridal (92)<\/strong> announced that Paul Pressler stepped down from his role as CEO, and has been succeeded by Scott Key. Mr. Pressler will remain chairman.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Destination Maternity Corporation (33)<\/strong> announced Ronald Masciantonio, Exec VP and Chief Administrative Officer, has left the company. The company also announced it has appointed Marla Ryan as CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Eddie Bauer Inc. (66)<\/strong> has promoted Damien Huang to the role of President. The company also announced that Mike Africa has been named VP of Retail and E-commerce.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Gap Inc. (248)<\/strong> has named Neil Fiske as President and CEO of its Gap brand.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hudsons Bay Company (625)<\/strong> announced Vanessa LaFebvre is the company\u2019s new President.<\/p>\n

\u2022 JCPenney Company, Inc. (99)<\/strong> announced Marvin R. Ellison, President and CEO, is no longer with the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Macy’s Inc. (156)<\/strong> announced that Paula A. Price will be appointed CFO, effective July 9, 2018. She will succeed Karen Hoguet who plans to retire at the end of the fiscal year. The retailer also named Naveen Krishna as Chief Technology Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nordstrom Inc.<\/strong> (253)<\/strong> appointed Ken Worzel, President of Nordstrom.com, as its first Chief Digital Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rue 21 (92)<\/strong> has appointed Laurie Van Brunt as president and CEO. She succeeds Michael C. Appel, who will continue to serve as chairman. Michele Pascoe was named Senior VP and CFO. The company also announced it named Stephen Sommers as Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Signet Jewelers Limited (124)<\/strong> has named Mary Elizabeth Finn as Chief People Officer. The company also announced Stephen Lovejoy has been named Chief Supply Chain Officer.<\/p>\n

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Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Hudson\u2019s Bay Company<\/strong> announced that it will sell its digital shopping business Gilt to SmartBargains.com LP<\/strong>, owner of Rue La La. The deal is slated to close in July.<\/p>\n

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Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Canada Goose Inc.<\/strong> has announced expansion plans in China, with the launch of two new stores and a regional headquarters.<\/p>\n

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Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Canada Goose Inc.<\/strong> plans to open three additional locations this fall. Two Canadian locations in Montreal and Vancouver will be joined by a third unit at The Mall at Shorts Hills in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Gucci America Inc.<\/strong> has opened a new 10,000 sq. ft. store in the SoHo area of New York.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hudson\u2019s Bay Company<\/strong> has announced plans to close 10 Lord & Taylor locations, including its iconic Fifth Avenue location in New York. The company said it would close the locations through 2019.<\/p>\n

\u2022 La Maison Simons Inc.<\/strong> announced plans to open a new fulfillment center in Quebec City in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lands\u2019 End Inc.<\/strong> opened a 5,000 sq. ft. store in Burlington, MA. It is the second of five stores the company plans to open in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Macy’s Inc.<\/strong> plans to open a Backstage outlet store in two more malls in Dallas-Fort Worth, at Galleria Dallas and North East Mall in Hurst. Both stores will be almost 20,000 square feet of the existing buildings. The retailer plans to open 100 additional Backstage stores this year, and is also soon opening a distribution center for Backstage specifically in Columbus, OH.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nordstrom Inc.<\/strong> announced it will open two new locations in Los Angeles County. A 25,000 sq. ft. Nordstrom Rack store will open at The Vineyards at Porter Ranch in spring 2019 and a 23,640-sq. ft. Nordstrom Rack location will open at Plaza El Segundo, in El Segundo, in fall 2019.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Puma North America<\/strong> announced it will open a three-level, 29,000 sq. ft. flagship store on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 49th Street in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sears Holdings Corporation<\/strong> released a list of 63 underperforming Sears and Kmart stores set to close by September, after originally saying it planned to shutter 72 locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Uniqlo<\/strong> will open four stores in Canada this fall. The total includes three locations in the greater Toronto area, at Vaughan Mills, CF Markville and Square One Shopping Centre, and a store in British Columbia, at Coquitlam Centre, Coquitlam.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vince Holding Corp<\/strong> has announced plans to open two new locations this month at The Domain in Austin, TX, and in Palisades Village in Los Angeles, CA.<\/p>\n

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Just because we don\u2019t mention it here doesn\u2019t mean it didn\u2019t happen \u2013 or we didn\u2019t capture it. In the past four weeks, we\u2019ve updated more than 373 companies in the Apparel Specialty Stores and Department Stores & Shoe Retailers PLUS Databases, with many of those companies\u2019 records updated at multiple points.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates \u2022 Academy Sports & Outdoors (187) said that J.K. Symancyk has resigned as CEO. The retailer has appointed Ken C. Hicks as Chairman and CEO. \u2022 Avenue Stores, LLC (40) has appointed Mark Walsh as CEO. He succeeds Liz Williams. The retailer also recently named Scott Hampson as COO. \u2022 Columbia Sportswear Company… Continue reading DATATRAC: Apparel Specialty Stores and Department Stores \u2013 June 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}