{"id":12521,"date":"2019-07-22T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=12521"},"modified":"2019-07-22T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:54:00","slug":"datatrac-apparel-specialty-stores-department-stores-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/07\/datatrac-apparel-specialty-stores-department-stores-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Apparel Specialty Stores and Department Stores \u2013 July 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022 Claire’s Holdings LLC (33)<\/strong> has appointed Ryan Vero as its new CEO. He succeeds Kevin Corning, who served as interim CEO since March.<\/p>\n

\u2022 David\u2019s Bridal (68)<\/strong> has appointed James Marcum as the company\u2019s new CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Genesco Inc<\/strong>. (81)<\/strong> has appointed Mel Tucker as Senior VP of Finance and CFO.\u00a0 He succeeds Mimi E. Vaughn, who recently was promoted to COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Crew Group Inc<\/strong>. (82)<\/strong> announced that it has named Billy May as Chief Customer Officer for the J. Crew Brand.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lord & Taylor (122)<\/strong> has announced that Vanessa LeFebvre, President of the company, is leaving.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tapestry (132) <\/strong>announced the appointment of Joanne Crevoiserat as CFO, effective Aug. 1.<\/p>\n

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Financial Focus<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 The Neiman Marcus Group<\/strong> announced that it will no longer be filing regular reports publicly with the SEC.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Vera Bradley, Inc<\/strong>. has announced its acquisition of Creative Genius Inc., which also operates under the name Pura Vida Bracelets.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Kohl\u2019s Corporation<\/strong> announced it is now accepting unpackaged Amazon returns at all of its stores nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lululemon Athletica Inc<\/strong>. announced plans to introduce shoes and rolled out personal care products for men and women.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Victoria\u2019s Secret<\/strong> has debuted in France with the opening of a new 5,400 sq. ft. store in Paris.<\/p>\n

\u2022 UNIQLO <\/strong>announced it will open three new stores in India beginning in October 2019.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Barney\u2019s New York<\/strong> announced it will anchor Miami\u2019s Bal Harbour Shops with a 57,000 sq. ft. location.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Birks Group Inc<\/strong>. recently opened a 4,700 sq. ft. Mayors flagship store at Merrick Park in Coral Gables, FL.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Charming Charlie Inc<\/strong>. announced it will close all of its stores by the end of August.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Francesca\u2019s Holdings Corp<\/strong>. announced that it now expects to close at least 30 locations this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lululemon Athletica Inc<\/strong>. has quietly closed its men\u2019s standalone stores in New York City and Toronto. The retailer also announced it has opened its largest store to date. The new 20,000 sq. ft. store is in Chicago\u2019s Lincoln Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Primark <\/strong>will open its first store in the Midwest, in downtown Chicago, IL. The retailer will take over a 45,000 sq. ft. building in the heart of the Loop.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ross Stores Inc<\/strong>. announced the recent opening of 22 Ross Dress for Less and six dd’s Discounts stores across 10 different states in June and July.\u00a0 These new locations are part of the company’s plans to add 100 stores in 2019.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Rue21 <\/strong>is rolling out an online payment solution from Klarna that allows customers to pay for purchases with four equal payments collected bi-weekly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates \u2022 Claire’s Holdings LLC (33) has appointed Ryan Vero as its new CEO. He succeeds Kevin Corning, who served as interim CEO since March. \u2022 David\u2019s Bridal (68) has appointed James Marcum as the company\u2019s new CEO. \u2022 Genesco Inc. (81) has appointed Mel Tucker as Senior VP of Finance and CFO.\u00a0 He… Continue reading DATATRAC: Apparel Specialty Stores and Department Stores \u2013 July 2019<\/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-12521","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\/12521","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=12521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}