{"id":14111,"date":"2020-09-11T09:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=14111"},"modified":"2020-09-11T09:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:25:07","slug":"datatrac-business-news-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2020\/09\/datatrac-business-news-9\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022<\/span> The Fresh Market Inc.<\/strong> has hired Jim Heaney as its new CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> GPM Investments LLC<\/strong> and Arko Holdings Ltd. have signed an agreement to form a new, publicly traded company called Arko.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc.<\/strong> is teaming with Electrify America to add public ultra-face electric vehicle charging stations to seven locations in six states: Arizona, Florida New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, and Utah.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Schnuck Markets Inc.<\/strong> is planning to open a third store in Columbia, MO, in spring 2021.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> United Natural Foods Inc.<\/strong> has appointed Guillaume Bagal as its VP of Diversity and Inclusion.<\/p>\n

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Retail<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022<\/span> Academy Sports & Outdoors<\/strong> has filed a statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Alpine Lumber Co.<\/strong> plans to open a new location in Silverthorne, CO, in April 2021.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Amazon.com Inc.<\/strong> announced a partnership with Kohl’s Corporation<\/strong> in which the retailer will allow an Amazon grocery store to occupy space in a Kohl’s store in La Verne, CA.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> American Eagle Outfitters Inc.<\/strong> announced that Jennifer Foyle has been promoted to Chief Creative Officer. The retailer announced plans to close 40 to 50 American Eagle stores this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.<\/strong> has named Rick Wilkins as Regional VP for the West Region.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Costco Wholesale Corp.<\/strong> plans to open new stores in Chaska, MN and Denver, CO.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods Inc.<\/strong> will open one Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods store in TX, one combination of Dick\u2019s and Golf Galaxy location in SC, and one Golf Galaxy store in CO, in September.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Five Below Inc.<\/strong> plans to remodel approximately 45 stores and add self-checkout capabilities to more than 100 additional existing stores in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> LaValley-Middleton Building Supply Inc.<\/strong> has opened a new location in Bristol, NH.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> The Neiman Marcus Group<\/strong> has received court approval of its Chapter 11 reorganization plan. The company said it intends to emerge from bankruptcy by Sept. 30.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Sephora <\/strong>USA Inc. <\/strong>announced Martin Broc as President and CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Walmart Stores Inc.<\/strong> has launched its flu shot offering, including a new scheduling system and a focus on making the vaccine accessible for employees.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Wayfair LLC<\/strong> announced Fiona Tan has joined the company as its Director of Customer and Supplier Technology.<\/p>\n

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Restaurant<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022<\/span> Another Broken Egg <\/strong>will soon be opening a new location in Columbia, SC.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Captain D\u2019s<\/strong> has opened a new franchised location in Oak Grove, KY.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> CEC Entertainment Inc.<\/strong> has received $200M in financing that will allow them to transition through the bankruptcy process.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Dave’s Hot Chicken <\/strong>has opened a new location in Los Angeles, CA.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> El Pollo Loco<\/strong> has launched a new limited menu that features items inspired by the diverse background of Los Angeles, CA.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Farmer Boys Food Inc.<\/strong> has opened a new franchised location in Thousand Oaks, CA.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> McDonald’s Corporation<\/strong> is testing out a new reusable cup system for hot beverages. The cups require a small deposit form consumers that is refunded when the consumer returns the cup to a dedicated location for sanitization.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Panera Bread <\/strong>has named Debbie Roberts Chief Operations Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Inc.<\/strong> has named Sami Siddiqui President of Popeyes Americas.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Postmates<\/strong> has become the first official delivery partner of the National Football League.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Tropical Smoothie Franchise Development Corp.<\/strong> has been acquired by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners. There are currently no plans to change any members of the executive team.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Twin Peaks Restaurant <\/strong>is launching new tailgating party packs to coincide with the return of the NFL.<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> Zaxby’s Franchising Inc.<\/strong> has hired Vanessa Fox as the company\u2019s first Chief Development Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022 The Fresh Market Inc. has hired Jim Heaney as its new CFO. \u2022 GPM Investments LLC and Arko Holdings Ltd. have signed an agreement to form a new, publicly traded company called Arko. \u2022 Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc. is teaming with Electrify America to add public ultra-face… Continue reading DATATRAC: In Other Business News<\/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-14111","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\/14111","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=14111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}