{"id":17346,"date":"2024-03-29T10:07:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=17346"},"modified":"2024-03-29T10:07:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T14:07:43","slug":"in-other-business-news-145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2024\/03\/in-other-business-news-145\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022 The Food Industry Association<\/strong> has promoted Krystal Register to VP of Health. Diane Gill was promoted to Controller and VP of Finance. Steven Harris was promoted to Senior Director of Government Relations and Strategic Initiatives. Tom Cosgrove was promoted to Director of Industry Relations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Giant Company<\/strong> has promoted Joanna Crishock to the role of VP of Center Store Omnichannel Merchandising.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hy-Vee Inc<\/strong>. has named Jessica Hendrix as Exec VP, Chief Marketing Officer. Anna Stoermer will take on the role of Chief Merchandising Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Weis Markets Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Nick Cicco to VP of Pharmacy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Weis Markets Inc<\/strong>. announced a new partnership with Uber Eats to offer grocery delivery.<\/p>\n

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Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc<\/strong>. reported it plans to open 10 to 12 new stores each year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hancock Lumber Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Eric Dolloff to Regional General Manager. Mike Boulet has been promoted to General Manager Retail Manufacturing.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Home Depot Inc<\/strong>. has entered into an agreement to acquire SRS Distribution Inc. The deal is expected to close by the end of fiscal 2024.<\/p>\n

\u2022 House-Hasson Hardware Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. plans to acquire The Bostwick-Braun Co<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lowe\u2019s Companies Inc<\/strong>. has partnered with Shipt for same-day delivery for its customers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Untuckit <\/strong>plans to open 14 new store locations globally in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vince Holding Corp<\/strong>. announced that Jack Schwefel has resigned as CEO. The company has appointed Dave Stefko as Interim CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. has named Kyle Kinnard as Senior VP, Neighborhood Market. He will replace the retiring Kelvin Buncum.<\/p>\n

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Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Dave’s Hot Chicken<\/strong> has added musician Usher to their Atlanta franchise group.<\/p>\n

\u2022 KFC<\/strong> announced that it has achieved gender parity across their corporate offices.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Krispy Kreme<\/strong> will be selling doughnuts at all nationwide McDonald\u2019s <\/strong>restaurants. It will be a phased rollout that will start later this year and be completed at the end of 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022 McDoanld\u2019s <\/strong>is planning to open two additional CosMc\u2019s in Texas in April.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Papa Johns<\/strong> will close 50 underperforming corporate store in the U.K.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rave Restaurant Group<\/strong> has named Jay Rooney as CFO. Additional appointments include: Zack Viljoen as VP of Operations, Denise Wilson as Associate VP of Supply Chain, Carlos Cojulun as Marketing Director of Pizza Inn, Liam Finn as Director of Franchise Development, and Roger Magnum as Director of Operations and Training.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Red Lobster<\/strong> has named Jonathan Tibus as CEO<\/p>\n

\u2022 The ONE Group LLC <\/strong>will acquire Benihana in a $365 million deal that is expected to close later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022 The Food Industry Association has promoted Krystal Register to VP of Health. Diane Gill was promoted to Controller and VP of Finance. Steven Harris was promoted to Senior Director of Government Relations and Strategic Initiatives. Tom Cosgrove was promoted to Director of Industry Relations. \u2022 The Giant Company has promoted… 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-17346","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\/17346","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=17346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}