{"id":17954,"date":"2024-12-06T10:09:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=17954"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:58:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:58:37","slug":"in-other-business-news-180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2024\/12\/in-other-business-news-180\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Ahold-Delhaize<\/strong> reported that Meg Ham, President of Food Lion LLC<\/strong>, plans to retire on May 2, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Coborn\u2019s Inc. <\/strong>recently hired Scott Winburn as Senior Director of Pricing Strategy. Joshua Wing has been named VP of Information Technology.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Fresh Encounter Inc<\/strong>., Plum Market, Robert Resources LLC <\/strong>and Stew Leonard\u2019s<\/strong> recently announced new partnerships with DoorDash to offer grocery delivery.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Fresh Market Inc.<\/strong> recently opened a new 25,000 sq. ft. store in Louisville, KY.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Heritage Grocers Group<\/strong> has named Suzy Monford as its new CEO. She replaces Doug Sanders who has left the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc<\/strong>. plans to close one of its two store locations in Tucson, AZ, this week.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Nugget Market Inc<\/strong>. plans to open two new grocery stores in California next year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0United Natural Foods Inc<\/strong>. plans to relocate its corporate headquarters to downtown Providence, RI, in the summer of 2025.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Weis Markets Inc<\/strong>. announced that Doug Becker was promoted to VP Fresh Merchandising. Angela Charnosky was promoted to VP Enterprise Services. Autumn Wolfe was promoted to Senior Director, Accounting, Tax, and Treasury. Candi Thomas was promoted to Director, Program Management. Valerie Seipp was promoted to Director, Financial Analytics, Budgeting and External Reporting.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Capri Holdings Limited <\/strong>announced John Idol as the new CEO of Michael Kors.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0CVS Health <\/strong>announced that Len Shankman has been hired as President, Pharmacy and Consumer Wellness. Lucille Accetta has been named as the retailer\u2019s new Chief Pharmacy Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0David\u2019s Bridal<\/strong> started a new partnership with DoorDash to offer delivery of its dresses, shoes and accessories in under an hour.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Do it Best Corp<\/strong>. has promoted Ty Sordelet to VP of Logistics.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dollar Tree Stores Inc<\/strong>. announced the departure of its CFO, Jeff Davis.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dunn-Edwards Corporation<\/strong> reported that Karl Altergott is retiring from his role as President and CEO in February 2025. Monte Lewis has been named as the new CEO, effective March 1, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Five Below Inc<\/strong>. announced it has hired Winnie Park as its new CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Nike Inc<\/strong>. announced G. Scott Uzzell, VP and General Manager of North America, has left the company.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0BurgerFi<\/strong> has sold its assets from both BurgerFi and Anthony\u2019s Coal Fired Pizza to TREW Capital Management Private Credit 2 LLC as part of their bankruptcy proceedings. CEO Carl Bachman has left his role and joined TREW Capital Management.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Chipotle<\/strong> has raised their menu prices by 2% nationwide. The company blames the increase on inflation and this is the first time they have increased prices nationwide since October 2023.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0McDonald’s <\/strong>is currently facing an outage of expresso machines at many of their restaurants. The supplier of the machines noted a potential safety risk and had many of the machines decommissioned. It is not known how widespread the issue is or when it will be fixed.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Portillo\u2019s<\/strong> has named Tony Darden as COO. The company also opened their first \u201cRestaurant of the Future\u201d in Texas. The new format features a smaller footprint and double drive thru lanes.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Red Robin<\/strong> has received an $8.3 million investment to aid in paying down their debt.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Smalls Sliders<\/strong> is suing competitor Smashburger over a trademark dispute. Smashburger recently changed their S logo and now Smalls is claiming that it looks to similar to their own logo.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Starbucks<\/strong> CEO Brian Niccol has moved his focus to wait time optimization at restaurants. Through new technology he aims to get customers their coffee orders in under 30 seconds.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0White Castle<\/strong> has revamped their online merchandise store to include new items for the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, C-Store \u2022\u00a0Ahold-Delhaize reported that Meg Ham, President of Food Lion LLC, plans to retire on May 2, 2025. \u2022\u00a0Coborn\u2019s Inc. recently hired Scott Winburn as Senior Director of Pricing Strategy. Joshua Wing has been named VP of Information Technology. \u2022\u00a0Fresh Encounter Inc., Plum Market, Robert Resources LLC and Stew Leonard\u2019s recently announced new… 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":[],"class_list":["post-17954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954","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=17954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18161,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions\/18161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}