{"id":13066,"date":"2019-12-06T10:06:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T15:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=13066"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:06:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T15:06:03","slug":"datatrac-retail-stores-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/12\/datatrac-retail-stores-4\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022 Casper (103)<\/strong> has appointed Emilie Arel as President and Chief Commercial Officer. The retailer also named Ben Clark as Chief Technology Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Destination XL Group Inc. (68)<\/strong> announced it has appointed Ujjwal Dhoot as Chief Digital Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 JCPenney Company, Inc. (69)<\/strong> announced Karl Walsh has joined the company as Senior VP, Chief Digital Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Macy\u2019s Inc. (87)<\/strong> announced that Hal Lawton, President of the Macy\u2019s brand business has resigned.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Massage Envy LLC (20)<\/strong> said Joe Magnacca has resigned as CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Office Depot Inc. (59)<\/strong> announced that Joseph T. Lower, Exec VP and CFO,\u00a0is leaving the company to become\u00a0CFO at AutoNation.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Roots Canada Ltd. (28)<\/strong> announced that Mona Kennedy has been named CFO.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 BMC Stock Holdings Inc<\/strong> announced that it has acquired DeFord Lumber Co. Ltd.<\/strong> in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.<\/p>\n

\u2022 CVS Health<\/strong> announced that it will acquire IlliniCare Health Plan.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Louis Vuitton North America<\/strong> has acquired Tiffany & Co.<\/strong> The deal is expected to close in the middle of 2020.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.<\/strong> announced it will be opening 14 UnitedHealthcare Medicare service centers within Walgreens stores in five metropolitan areas starting in January 2020.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts Inc.<\/strong> announced it will close all of its store locations, and up to 40 of them will be converted to Michael\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Citi Trends Inc.<\/strong> plans to open 25 to 30 new stores annually and complete major remodels in 50 existing stores each year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Everlane <\/strong>has revealed plans to open a new store in Boston, MA, at the Boston Seaport in spring 2020.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tru Kids Brands, Inc.<\/strong> has opened its first new location in the United States. The company has introduced a concept space at the Westfield Garden State Mall in Paramus, NJ.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Walmart Stores Inc.<\/strong> announced it plans to open 500 new stores in China over the next five to seven years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates \u2022 Casper (103) has appointed Emilie Arel as President and Chief Commercial Officer. The retailer also named Ben Clark as Chief Technology Officer. \u2022 Destination XL Group Inc. (68) announced it has appointed Ujjwal Dhoot as Chief Digital Officer. \u2022 JCPenney Company, Inc. (69) announced Karl Walsh has joined the company as Senior… Continue reading DATATRAC: Retail Stores<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[36],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-13066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}