{"id":18476,"date":"2025-04-18T09:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18168"},"modified":"2025-04-18T09:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:07:27","slug":"in-other-business-news-198","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/04\/in-other-business-news-198\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Associated Food Stores<\/strong> has promoted Eliseo Faz to Senior VP Pharmacy. Chris Sheard has been named VP Pharmacy Operations. He succeeds Shawna Hanson who has retired. Sam Haddadin has been named VP Pharmacy Operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Baldor Specialty Foods Inc<\/strong>. announced it has appointed David McInerney as its new President.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Couche-Tard Inc<\/strong>. announced it will acquire Dusterhoft Oil Inc<\/strong>., with two locations in Grand Forks, ND.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Heritage Grocers Group<\/strong> has promoted Kim Cates to Group VP Merchandising. Allison Garcia has been promoted to Group VP Marketing.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Kroger Co<\/strong>. announcement that Joe Kelley has been promoted to Senior VP of Retail Divisions.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Laurel Grocery Co<\/strong>. is reportedly shutting down its wholesale operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Parkland Corporation<\/strong> announced its President and CEO, Bob Espey, will step down by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Plum Market<\/strong> plans to open a new 30,000 sq. ft. location in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, in spring 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Stinker Stores<\/strong> is reportedly selling 13 of its convenience stores in Colorado.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0T & T Supermarket Inc<\/strong>. will open its second location in Mississauga, ON. The 40,000 sq. ft. store will open in the summer of 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Vallarta Supermarkets<\/strong> will open a new 46,333 sq. ft. store this week in Los Angeles, CA.<\/p>\n

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Retai<\/strong>l<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0ABC Supply Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. announced Matt Belcher has been promoted to VP of its Southwest Region. Scott Toumbleston has been promoted to VP of its Southeast Region.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Frank And Oak<\/strong> will close the majority of its stores soon, as it goes through a restructuring process.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0IKEA North America<\/strong> is opening new locations in Texas. A 63,000 sq. ft. store will open in Dallas later this year. Two other smaller format locations are planned to open in San Marcos and Rockwell.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Kohl’s Corporation<\/strong> announced Scott Schnuckel, its Director of Real Estate, has left the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0PGA Tour Superstore, Inc<\/strong>. has announced Dick Sullivan, Executive Chairman and CEO, will retire from his CEO role later this summer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Spahn & Rose Lumber Co<\/strong>. has hired Mike Elsea for the newly created position of VP of Operations for its Southeastern locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Vince Holding Corp<\/strong>. has named Yuji Okumura as its permanent CFO.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Capriotti\u2019s Sandwich Shop Inc<\/strong>. reportedly will open new locations in AL, AR, AZ, CT, ID, MS, and OH, this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0CKE Restaurants Inc<\/strong>. has opened the first Carl\u2019s Jr<\/strong>. location in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Doctor’s Associates Inc<\/strong>. announced Doug Fry had stepped down as President North America.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Krystal Restaurants LLC<\/strong> has opened its first travel-center location in Tyler, TX.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Restaurant Brands International<\/strong> has named Joel Yashinsky as Chief Marketing Officer of Burger King<\/strong> for the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Zaxbys Franchising Inc<\/strong>. recently opened its first location in Las Vegas, NV. The company plans to open more new locations in the city this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Associated Food Stores has promoted Eliseo Faz to Senior VP Pharmacy. Chris Sheard has been named VP Pharmacy Operations. He succeeds Shawna Hanson who has retired. Sam Haddadin has been named VP Pharmacy Operations. \u2022\u00a0Baldor Specialty Foods Inc. announced it has appointed David McInerney as its new President. \u2022\u00a0Couche-Tard Inc. announced… Continue reading In Other Business News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-18476","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\/18476","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}