{"id":10983,"date":"2018-09-18T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10983"},"modified":"2018-09-18T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T15:14:10","slug":"datatrac-apparel-specialty-stores-department-stores-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/09\/datatrac-apparel-specialty-stores-department-stores-september-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Apparel Specialty Stores and Department Stores \u2013 September 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022 Abercrombie & Fitch Co<\/strong>. (111)<\/strong> announced the appointment of Gregory J. Henchel as Senior VP and General Counsel.<\/p>\n

\u2022 L Brands, Inc<\/strong>. (73)<\/strong> announced Denise Landman, CEO of Pink Victoria\u2019s Secret will retire at the end of this year. Amy Hauk, Head of Merchandising and Product Development at Bath & Body Works, will replace her.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Levi Strauss & Co<\/strong>. (200)<\/strong> has promoted Marc Rosen to Exec VP and President of its newly created direct-to-consumer division. He is replacing Carrie Ask, who is leaving the company. The retailer named Liz O\u2019Neill as Exec VP and President of Product, Innovation and Supply Chain, another newly created division. The company also promoted Jen Sey to Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Shoe Carnival, Inc<\/strong>. (65)<\/strong> announced the appointment of Mark Worden to the newly created role of Exec VP, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tailored Brands, Inc<\/strong>. (144)<\/strong> reported that Doug Ewert has announced his intention to retire as CEO, effective September 30, 2018. Dinesh Lathi has been appointed Executive Chairman, effective immediately. The company also announced that Bruce Thorn resigned from his position as President and COO.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 David\u2019s Bridal<\/strong> acquired Seattle-based Blueprint Registry, an online universal gift registry that allows consumers to add gifts from any retailer.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 L Brands, Inc<\/strong>. announced it would close all 23 Henri Bendel<\/strong> stores, and its website, after the holiday season.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Macy’s Inc<\/strong>. recently announced plans to roll out a new, more experiential format within select Bloomingdale\u2019s stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New York & Company Inc<\/strong>. announced it is changing its name to RTW Retailwinds. The name change is expected to occur in October, and will reflect new brands the retailer is launching.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 American Eagle Outfitters Inc<\/strong>. plans to open 50 to 80 Aerie store locations in the next year with, including in a number of new markets.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Eloquii Design Inc<\/strong>. recently opened its first Southeast location, at Dadeland Mall, in Miami, FL.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kendra Scott Design, Inc<\/strong>. has opened a new store in Manhattan\u2019s SoHo neighborhood. The two-story, 1,700 sq. ft. store is the retailer\u2019s first permanent location in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lands\u2019 End Inc<\/strong>. recently opened its first store in New Jersey at Chimney Rock Crossing in Bridgewater.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New York & Company Inc<\/strong>. opened a new 18,000 sq. ft. flagship store on State Street in Downtown Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sears Holdings Corporation<\/strong> has added an additional 46 stores to its list of closures including 33 Sears locations and 13 Kmart locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sundance Holdings Group, LLC<\/strong> has opened a new location at The Mall at Green Hills in Nashville, TN.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Town Shoes Ltd<\/strong>. announced that it will close all its Town Shoes locations. The company operates 38 stores in Canada which are expected to close by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 UNTUCKit<\/strong> has opened its first international retail location in Toronto, Canada.<\/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 172 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 Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (111) announced the appointment of Gregory J. Henchel as Senior VP and General Counsel. \u2022 L Brands, Inc. (73) announced Denise Landman, CEO of Pink Victoria\u2019s Secret will retire at the end of this year. Amy Hauk, Head of Merchandising and Product Development at Bath & Body Works,… Continue reading DATATRAC: Apparel Specialty Stores and Department Stores \u2013 September 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":[14],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apparel-department","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983","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=10983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}