{"id":17817,"date":"2024-10-04T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=17817"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:34:30","slug":"in-other-business-news-172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2024\/10\/in-other-business-news-172\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022 Ahold-Delhaize<\/strong> announced Roger Wheeler has been appointed as President of Stop & Shop. Gordon Reid plans to retire in mid-2025.<\/p>\n

\u2022 B & R Stores Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Mark Griffin to President and CEO. Pat Raybould will transition to the role of Chief Strategy Officer while remaining as Chairman.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rouses Enterprises LLC<\/strong> recently opened a new 40,000 sq. ft. supermarket in Picayune, MS.<\/p>\n

\u2022 SpartanNash Company<\/strong> has promoted Paul Weis to VP, Distribution Finance. Dustin Manning has been promoted to VP Inventory Management. Justin Vire has been promoted to VP Cost Leadership. Kristen Porter has been promoted to VP, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stewart\u2019s Shops Corp<\/strong>. plans to acquire Jolley Associates<\/strong>. The acquisition includes 45 Jolley convenience stores and is expected to close by the end of 2024.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Village Supermarket Inc<\/strong>. reported its CEO and President, Robert Sumas, plans to leave the company on December 13 of this year. John J. Sumas will be appointed as the new CEO and Nicholas Sumas will be appointed as President and Chairman at that time.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wawa Inc<\/strong>. will open its largest location in mid-2025. The 8,400 sq. ft. convenience store will be in Hope Mills, NC.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Weis Markets Inc<\/strong>. has entered into an agreement to acquire Sunnyway Foods Inc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Bath & Body Works<\/strong> announced that its President, Julie Rosen, will leave the company. Her role will not be replaced.<\/p>\n

\u2022 CVS Health<\/strong> reported it will lay off 2,900 employees, as it tries to cut costs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 David\u2019s Bridal<\/strong> has appointed Elina Villk as its new Chief Business Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Detering Co<\/strong>. of Houston Inc<\/strong>. has named Carlos Detering as President and COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc<\/strong>. is opening four new stores this week in Davie, FL; Austell-Mableton, GA; North Kansas City, MO; and Turnersville, NJ.<\/p>\n

\u2022 JCPenney Company, Inc<\/strong>. plans to hire more than 10,000 seasonal associates for the 2024 holiday season.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Macy\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. announced it plans to hire more than 31,500 full and part-time seasonal positions at its stores and distribution centers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mango Inc<\/strong>. reported it will open its first store in Seattle, WA, next year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nation’s Best Holdings LLC<\/strong> has hired Chad Wilson as Regional VP, East Region. Kim Peffley has been named as Regional VP, North Region.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nike Inc<\/strong>. announced John Donahoe will retire. Elliott Hill will replace him as President and CEO and will also become a Director.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Holdings<\/strong> has recently opened 10 new store locations in Texas.<\/p>\n

\u2022 PetSmart Inc<\/strong>. announced that J.K. Symancyk has stepped down from his role as President and CEO. Alan Schnaid has been named as Interim President and CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Salt Life<\/strong> reported it will close all 28 of its stores locations and will focus on its wholesale and e-commerce businesses.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Target Corporation<\/strong> announced it has named Jim Lee as its new CFO. He succeeds Michael Fiddelke, who will remain COO of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022 UFP Industries<\/strong> has named Landon Tarvin to replace Will Schwartz as President of Retail, effective December 29, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Uniqlo<\/strong> has named Clare Waight Keller as its new Creative Director.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Arby\u2019s<\/strong> has named David Graves as President.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Chipotle<\/strong> has launched their first location in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Chuy\u2019s <\/strong>shareholders are set to vote on Oct. 10 on the proposed sale to Darden Restaurants. The company has already received 13 demand letters and two complaints from shareholders that the sale price was not high enough, yet the vote is expected to pass.<\/p>\n

\u2022 McDonald\u2019s <\/strong>is launching the Chicken Big Mac nationwide starting next week.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Starbucks<\/strong> has announced that they are expanding their coffee farm network by adding two new farms in an effort to create more sustainable farming.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Taco Cabana<\/strong> is launching a nationwide franchising program.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong>The National Labor Relations Board has affirmed a previous ruling that former Starbucks<\/strong> CEO Howard Schultz violated labor laws by making an implicit threat to an employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022 Ahold-Delhaize announced Roger Wheeler has been appointed as President of Stop & Shop. Gordon Reid plans to retire in mid-2025. \u2022 B & R Stores Inc. has promoted Mark Griffin to President and CEO. Pat Raybould will transition to the role of Chief Strategy Officer while remaining as Chairman. \u2022… 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-17817","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\/17817","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=17817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}