{"id":16126,"date":"2022-06-10T09:36:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T13:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=16126"},"modified":"2022-06-10T09:36:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T13:36:33","slug":"business-news-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2022\/06\/business-news-55\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Amazon.com Inc<\/strong>. has opened a new 35,000 sq. ft. Amazon Fresh store in Huntington Beach, CA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Buc-ee’s Ltd<\/strong>. reported it plans to open its first store in Colorado. The 74,000 sq. ft. location will be in Johnstown.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dawn Foods Products Inc<\/strong>. hired Melissa Bautista as the company’s new VP of Manufacturing for North America and promoted Emily Gittins to VP, Global Corporate Controller.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Foxtrot Ventures Inc<\/strong> has appointed Liz Williams as its new President and CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0SpartanNash Company<\/strong> announced Greg Crane has joined the company as VP of Finance for Food Distribution.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0VP Racing Fuels<\/strong> has promoted Karen Madden to COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Wawa Inc<\/strong>. plans to expand into the Nashville, TN, market. The retailer will open its first store in Nashville in 2025, with the potential for up to 40 stores in the market in the future.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a024 Hour Fitness Worldwide Inc<\/strong>. has appointed Karl Sanft as its new President and CEO. He had been acting as Interim CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Amazon.com Inc<\/strong>. reported Dave Clark, CEO Consumer Worldwide, has resigned from the company and plans to leave on July 1.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Cardinal Health<\/strong> announced it plans to open a new 208,000 sq. ft. distribution center in the Columbus, OH.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Do it Best Corp<\/strong>. promoted Maggie Radyn to Merchandise Manager Safety, General Merchandise. The company also announced Jason Hanegan has been promoted to National Sales Manager. Jason Kretschmer has been hired as a Warehouse General Manager. Joe Stuber has been hired as a Database Administrator. Trey Villagomez has been hired as a Digital Marketing Manager.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0McCoy\u2019s Building Supply<\/strong> announced that Rob Perrone has been promoted to Director of Merchandising Hardlines. Lisa Barrett has been promoted to Director of Store Planning and Visual Merchandising.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Peloton Interactive Inc<\/strong>. announced it has appointed Liz Coddington as its CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0PPG Architectural Coatings<\/strong> announced that Joe Gette has been named VP, General Counsel and Secretary.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Target Corporation<\/strong> reported it has plans to build five new distribution centers over the next two fiscal years.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. will open four fulfillment centers dedicated to e-commerce during the next three years. They will be located in Joliet, IL; McCordsville, IN; Lancaster, TX; and Greencastle, PA.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Blaze Pizza<\/strong> has promoted Ed Yancey to Chief Development Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Chili’s<\/strong> has hired Kevin Hochman to become their CEO. Hochman has left his position at KFC<\/strong> and will replace Wyman Roberts.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Duck Donuts<\/strong> has hired Cathy Chavenet as VP of Marketing and Tom Perella as Director of Technology.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Fazoli’s <\/strong>has promoted Tim Kimmel to VP of Company Operations and Training and Wayne Wright to VP of Franchise Operations and Development.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Fuzzy’s Taco Shop<\/strong> has reached a 4-store franchise agreement that will expand their operations in Colorado and will see the chain enter Utah.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Huey Magoo’s<\/strong> has opened a new location in Englewood, OH.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Krispy Kreme<\/strong> has promoted Josh Charlesworth to Global President and COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ledo Pizza<\/strong> has partnered with Bear Robotics<\/strong> to create automated serving robots that will roll out at their restaurants.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Noodles & Company<\/strong>, winner of this year\u2019s Menu Masters<\/a> for \u201cBest New Menu Item\u201d,\u00a0has opened a new location in Las Vegas, NV. The company plans to open two to four more locations in the city next year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0RAVE Restaurant Group Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Mike Burns to Executive VP and COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Slim Chickens<\/strong> has opened a new location in Williston, ND.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Tropical Smoothie Caf\u00e9<\/strong> has launched a new loyalty program and upgraded their mobile app.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Velvet Taco<\/strong> will be transitioning to a larger headquarters that is a few miles from their current location at the beginning of August.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Zaxby’s<\/strong> has opened a new location in Jasper, IN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Amazon.com Inc. has opened a new 35,000 sq. ft. Amazon Fresh store in Huntington Beach, CA. \u2022\u00a0Buc-ee’s Ltd. reported it plans to open its first store in Colorado. The 74,000 sq. ft. location will be in Johnstown. \u2022\u00a0Dawn Foods Products Inc. hired Melissa Bautista as the company’s new VP of Manufacturing… Continue reading 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-16126","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\/16126","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=16126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}