{"id":15272,"date":"2021-08-06T12:50:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=15272"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:50:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:50:17","slug":"in-other-business-news-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/08\/in-other-business-news-13\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022 Couche-Tard Inc<\/strong>. plans to acquire an independent convenience store and fuel network with 79 company owned locations under the Esso, Wilsons Gas Stops and Go! Store brands.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Parkland USA<\/strong> has entered into an agreement to acquire Red Carpet Carwash, a 12-unit car wash, retail fuel and convenience-store business located in western North Dakota.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Refuel Operating Company<\/strong>, LLC<\/strong> has entered into an agreement to acquire Albemarle Oil Co. Inc.<\/strong>, with 28 conveniences stores in North Carolina and South Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u2022 United Natural Foods Inc<\/strong>. announced that it has named J. Alexander Miller Douglas, Jr. as its next CEO, replacing Steven Spinner.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Bed Bath & Beyond Inc<\/strong>. reported it will open two new regional distribution centers. The first will be located in Frackville, PA, and will open in fall 2021. The second will open in 2022, in Southern California.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bloomingdale\u2019s<\/strong> will officially open the first location of its all-new store concept \u201cBloomie\u2019s\u201d in Fairfax, VA, on August 26.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Boise Cascade LLC<\/strong> announced that it has promoted Tom Hoffmann to Senior VP.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Conn\u2019s <\/strong>HomePlus<\/strong> has appointed Chandra Holt as CEO and President. She succeeds Norm Miller, who will transition to the role of Executive Chairman.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Designer Brands Inc<\/strong>. announced exclusive distribution for Hush Puppies in North America, through a partnership with Wolverine Worldwide<\/strong>, Inc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dollar General Corp<\/strong>. has promoted Sanja Krajnovic to Senior VP of Store Operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Foot Locker Inc<\/strong>. has entered into a deal to acquire footwear and apparel retailer WSS<\/strong>, which operates 93 stores in California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada.\u00a0 In addition, Foot Locker will acquire Text Trading Company, which owns and licenses a streetwear brand based in Japan.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nation\u2019s Best Holdings LLC<\/strong> announced it has acquired Hipp Modern Builders Lumber & Hardware<\/strong> in Mountain View, AR, and Panhandle Lumber & Supply<\/strong> in Bonifay, FL.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Signet Jewelers Limited<\/strong> is debuting a new brand name, Banter by Piercing Pagoda.\u00a0 The retailer plans to roll out the new name to more than 500 U.S. locations. Banter by Piercing Pagoda plans to open up to 100 new locations in its current fiscal year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wolverine Worldwide<\/strong>, Inc<\/strong>. reported it has acquired activewear brand Sweaty Betty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Church’s Chicken<\/strong> has been purchased by High Bluff Capital Partners.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Crave Hot Dogs & Barbecue<\/strong> has opened a new location in Jackson, MI.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dog Haus International LLC<\/strong> has added plant based menu items featuring Beyond Meat chicken tenders.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fuzzy’s Taco Shop<\/strong> has hired Paul Damico as CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hungry Howie’s Pizza & Subs<\/strong> has opened a new location in Jefferson City, TN.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ike’s Love & Sandwiches<\/strong> will be opening their first location in Denver, CO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Panera Bread<\/strong>, Einstein Bros<\/strong>. Bagels<\/strong>, and Caribou Coffee<\/strong> have combined to form Panera Brands. Panera CEO Niren Chaudhary will oversee the new group.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Scooter’s Coffee LLC<\/strong> has hired Richard Heyman as Chief Information Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Slim Chickens<\/strong> has opened a new location in Tuscaloosa, AL.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Starbucks Coffee<\/strong> has accelerated the timeline for wage increases from January to October.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Dolly Llama<\/strong> will be expanding into Bethlehem, PA, in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Kroger Co<\/strong>. has partnered with Kitchen United to offer delivery meals from area restaurants that are prepared by Kitchen United off-premise restaurants located within Kroger.<\/p>\n

\u2022 TopGolf International<\/strong>, Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Genifer Gray to COO. The company has also hired Geoff Cottrill as Chief Marketing Officer and Kristi Maynor as Chief People Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tropical Smoothie Caf\u00e9<\/strong> has opened four new restaurants in Chicago, IL.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Walk-On’s Enterprises<\/strong> has opened a new location in Katy, TX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foot Locker Inc<\/strong>. has entered into a deal to acquire…<\/p>\n

Starbucks Coffee<\/strong> has accelerated the timeline for…<\/p>\n

United Natural Foods Inc<\/strong>. announced that it has named J. Alexander Miller Douglas, Jr. as its…<\/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-15272","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\/15272","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=15272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}