{"id":18007,"date":"2025-01-10T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18007"},"modified":"2025-06-18T14:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:58:53","slug":"in-other-business-news-184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/01\/in-other-business-news-184\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0H Mart<\/strong> will open two new grocery stores this month in Somerville, MA and Urbana, IL. More new store locations are planned for Dublin, CA, Haltom City, TX, and Orlando, FL, later this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lidl US, LLC<\/strong> will open a new grocery store in New York City, NY, later this month. The company also plans to open a new location in Manhattan this summer, and new stores in Atlanta, GA, and Washington DC, in the future.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Presidente Supermarkets Inc.<\/strong> will open a new 26,767 sq. ft. grocery store in Miami Gardens, FL, in July.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sodexo Inc<\/strong>. reported it plans to open nearly 100 \u201cFood Hive\u201d markets at colleges nationwide by 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Trader Joe\u2019s Co<\/strong>. plans to open twelve new store locations this year in AL, CA, DC, MD, NY, PA, TN, and WA.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Barnes & Noble<\/strong> reported it is planning to open about 60 new stores in the United States this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Camp<\/strong> announced it will open a new 7,500 sq. ft. store in Houston, TX, in February.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Carter\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. reported that Michael Casey is retiring as Chairman and CEO. Richard Westenberger has been appointed as Interim CEO, in addition to his responsibilities as Senior Exec VP, CFO and COO. William J. Montgoris has been appointed Chairman.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0It’Sugar <\/strong>has opened its 125th<\/sup> U.S. location. The 1,700 sq. ft. store recently opened in Middletown, NY.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Marvin Home Center<\/strong> recently opened a new distribution center at 205 Baker Hollow Road in Windsor, CT.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Nordstrom Inc<\/strong>. is going private and will no longer be a publicly held company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Real Essentials<\/strong> opened its first store location last month, in Sunrise, FL.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Snavely Forest Products Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Bill Georgelis to the position of VP Eastern Operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0TechStyle Fashion Group<\/strong> recently opened its first Savage X Fenty store in New England in Braintree, MA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc<\/strong>. announced its CEO Dave Kimbell is retiring and will be replaced by Kecia Steelman.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Bloomin\u2019 Brands<\/strong> has promoted Pat Hafner to President of Outback Steakhouse.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Bojangles <\/strong>will be rolling out ordering kiosks to all locations after a successful trial run.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Krispy Kreme<\/strong> has made four leadership changes. They have promoted Nicola Steele to COO; Dave Skena to Chief Growth Officer; Raphael Duvivier to President International; and Alison Holder to Chief Product Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Panera <\/strong>CEO Jos\u00e9 Alberto has stepped down and Paul Carbone has been named Interim CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Qdoba<\/strong> has signed a new franchise agreement to open 20 new restaurants in New Hampshire and Rhode Island this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Twin Peaks<\/strong> franchisee, DMD Ventures, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Yum Brands<\/strong> has terminated all of their franchise agreements in Turkey. The company said the termination was due to sales that were significantly below the global sales average. Over 1,000 restaurants will be impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0H Mart will open two new grocery stores this month in Somerville, MA and Urbana, IL. More new store locations are planned for Dublin, CA, Haltom City, TX, and Orlando, FL, later this year. \u2022\u00a0Lidl US, LLC will open a new grocery store in New York City, NY, later this month.… 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-18007","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\/18007","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=18007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18147,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18007\/revisions\/18147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}