{"id":11870,"date":"2019-03-27T16:31:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=11870"},"modified":"2019-03-27T16:31:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:31:26","slug":"datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/03\/datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022 Bashas’ Inc<\/strong>. (23)<\/strong> has named Barry Craft VP of Marketing, Merchandising and Procurement. He will replace Phil Hawkes, who is retiring.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Diplomat Pharmacy (26)<\/strong> announced the appointment of Dan Davison to the role of CFO and Treasurer, effective April 8, succeeding Atul Kavthekar.<\/p>\n

\u2022 e.l.f. Cosmetics, Inc<\/strong>. (35)<\/strong> announced its President and CFO, John Bailey, will step down from his role effective March 31, 2019. The responsibilities as President will be absorbed by CEO Tarang Amin and members of the executive team.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kinney Drugs<\/strong> (40) <\/strong>said its President Jim Spencer has died following a long illness.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rite Aid Corporation (74)<\/strong> has appointed Ben Bulkley as CEO of EnvisionRXOptions. The retailer also announced that John Standley will step down as CEO, staying on until the appointment of his successor. Bryan Everett, COO of Rite Aid Stores, has been promoted to COO of the company, succeeding Kermit Crawford who is leaving. And Matt Schroeder, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer, has been promoted to CFO, succeeding Darren Karst who will leave this spring after supporting a brief transition.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rite Aid Corporation (74)<\/strong> announced it is eliminating approximately 400 full-time jobs, which is more than 20% of the corporate positions.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc<\/strong>. (137)<\/strong> has named Heather Dixon Senior VP, Global Controller and Chief Accounting Officer.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Hy-Vee, Inc<\/strong>. announced that it has acquired Weber & Judd Company Inc.<\/strong>, including its 10 pharmacies in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 CVS Health<\/strong> is closing its 30 hearing centers, as federal regulations change that will allow hearing aids to be sold over the counter.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Publix Super Markets Inc<\/strong>. has teamed up with Florida health network Flagler Health+. The partnership plans to open three Flagler Health+-branded telehealth stations inside Publix stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rite Aid Corporation<\/strong> and General Nutrition Centers, Inc.<\/strong> announced they are extending their partnership. GNC currently operates 2,200 store-within-a-store locations inside Rite Aid stores nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc<\/strong>. is expanding the reach of its \u201cFeel More Like You\u201d service, which combines pharmacy, health and beauty services to help patients with cancer manage the medical and physical changes that accompany their treatment, to more than 3,000 stores.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Boardroom Salon for Men<\/strong> has opened its first location in Arizona, at Lincoln Marketplace in Scottsdale, giving it a total of 36 locations. Boardroom plans to open an additional 11 locations this year, targeting Phoenix, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, and will also enter North Carolina for the first time, opening in Raleigh and Charlotte. The company hopes to grow to 92 salons in the next four years.<\/p>\n

\u2022 e.l.f. Cosmetics, Inc<\/strong>. said it would close all 22 of its stores as it looks to focus on expanding its brand in national retailer and digital channels.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Planet Fitness, Inc<\/strong>. announced a partnership with Kohl’s Corporation. It plans to open up to 10 Planet Fitness locations adjacent to select Kohl\u2019s stores across the country this year, with the opportunity for additional locations in the future. Planet Fitness will lease approximately 20,000 to 25,000 sq. ft. that were previously part of the Kohl\u2019s stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sephora USA Inc<\/strong>. announced that it will open 35 new locations across the United States in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc<\/strong>. plans to open about 80 new stores in fiscal 2019. In addition it will undertake some 20 remodel or relocation projects and complete approximately 270 store refreshes.<\/p>\n

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Technology News<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Sprouts Farmers Markets<\/strong> and Harps Food Stores Inc<\/strong>. have launched same-day online grocery delivery through Instacart at more of their supermarkets.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc<\/strong>. is adding the Alipay mobile payment platform to more than 7,000 Walgreens locations nationwide.<\/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 887 companies in the Drug Stores and HBC Chains Database, with many of those companies\u2019 records updated at multiple points.<\/em>
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Personnel Updates \u2022 Bashas’ Inc. (23) has named Barry Craft VP of Marketing, Merchandising and Procurement. He will replace Phil Hawkes, who is retiring. \u2022 Diplomat Pharmacy (26) announced the appointment of Dan Davison to the role of CFO and Treasurer, effective April 8, succeeding Atul Kavthekar. \u2022 e.l.f. Cosmetics, Inc. (35) announced its President… Continue reading DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 March 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[23],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-11870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-hbc","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}