{"id":18047,"date":"2025-02-07T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18047"},"modified":"2025-02-07T09:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:20:47","slug":"in-other-business-news-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/02\/in-other-business-news-188\/","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 Ashley Eisenbeiser to VP of Food and Product Safety. Peter Collins has been promoted to VP of Business Development and Membership. Deborah Stewart has been promoted to Director of Registration Services.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Foxtrot Ventures Inc<\/strong> is reopening its second store location in Dallas, TX.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fry’s Food and Drug Stores<\/strong> has recently opened a new 125,600 sq. ft. in Gilbert, AZ.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Kroger Co<\/strong>. has named Brent Stewart as its new President for its QFC Division.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Raley\u2019s Companies <\/strong>has promoted Paul Gianetto to the role of President of its operating Division. Natalie Slatter has been promoted to VP Store operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sprouts Farmers Market <\/strong>has plans to open seven new stores in Florida this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Vallarta Supermarkets <\/strong>will open a new 45,100 sq. ft. store in Modesto, CA, this week.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Bargain Hunt has <\/strong>filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is closing all its stores by the end of the month.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Beyond, Inc<\/strong>. has entered into a deal to acquire Buy Buy Baby<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Builders FirstSource Inc<\/strong>. has acquired O.C. Cluss Lumber Co<\/strong>. with locations in MD, PA, and WV.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Caleres <\/strong>has named Brian Costello as Chief Merchandising Officer of Famous Footwear<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cole Haan<\/strong> has opened a new 1,622 sq. ft. store in New York City, NY. The retailer anticipates opening five more new stores this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Curtis Lumber Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. has acquired Jay-K Independent Lumber Corp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fleet Feet Inc<\/strong>. reported it plans to open at least 15 new store locations in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ollie\u2019s Bargain Outlet Holdings<\/strong> has appointed Eric Van der Valk as President and CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Peavey Industries Ltd<\/strong>. is going out of business, and closing all its Peavey Mart stores in Canada.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tibbetts Lumber<\/strong> announced Dave Stauter, President and COO, will retire from the company at the end of the year. Joe Sanchez has been promoted to COO during the transition period.<\/p>\n

\u2022 US LBM Holdings, LLC<\/strong> has acquired Walker Lumber Company. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Victoria\u2019s Secret & Co<\/strong>. has reported Timothy Johnson, Chief Administrative Officer and CFO, is retiring in June 2025. Scott Sekella has been appointed CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming<\/strong> plans to open more than 70 new locations in 2025, in CA, MD, MT, ND, OR, and WA.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Dine Brands<\/strong> has laid off 9% of their corporate staff.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cracker Barrel<\/strong> is running a special promotion that will offer all customers double reward points on all dishes that use eggs. The company is also going against competitors by not charging a surcharge on eggs due to the bird flu outbreak.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Popeyes <\/strong>is planning to do a systemwide rollout of its new kitchen redesign that will improve efficiency and the employee experience.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Red Lobster<\/strong> is launching the Ocean Sustainability Challenge, a program for middle school students that allows them to come up with innovative solutions to issues affecting oceans and waterways.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sonny\u2019s<\/strong> has named George McAllan as Chief Growth Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Taco Bell<\/strong> has reported that same-store sales grew by 5% during the 4th<\/sup> quarter. The company said the growth was driven by their Decades menu and their decision to lean into value options.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Yum! Brands<\/strong> has created a new AI-driven platform called Byte by Yum! that will house all of the companies technology solutions across their brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022 The Food Industry Association has promoted Ashley Eisenbeiser to VP of Food and Product Safety. Peter Collins has been promoted to VP of Business Development and Membership. Deborah Stewart has been promoted to Director of Registration Services. \u2022 Foxtrot Ventures Inc is reopening its second store location in Dallas, TX.… 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-18047","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\/18047","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=18047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}