{"id":18487,"date":"2025-06-06T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18225"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:26:08","slug":"in-other-business-news-205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/06\/in-other-business-news-205\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022 Aldi Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Atty McGrath to CEO United States. Jason Hart has been named as Group COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Coborn\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. has named Tanya Carlson its new Exec VP of Merchandising.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Krasdale Foods Inc<\/strong>. announced Guillermo Fisher has been promoted to General Manager Warehouse Operations. Rob Gangemi has been promoted to VP Finance.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Publix Super Markets Inc<\/strong>. is planning to open a new 50,000 sq. ft. grocery store in Panama City Beach, FL.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stewart’s Shops Corp<\/strong>. has promoted Chad Kiesow to President of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Weigel’s Stores Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Douglas Yawberry to CEO of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Whole Foods Market Inc<\/strong>. will open two new grocery stores in Miami, FL and St Charles, IL, this month.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Builders FirstSource, Inc<\/strong>. has appointed Gayatri Narayan to the newly created role of President, Technology and Digital Solutions.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Great Lakes Ace Hardware<\/strong> will open a new 13,000 sq. ft. store in Cincinnati, OH, in the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Home Depot <\/strong>has promoted Angie Brown to Exec VP and CIO of the company. She replaces Fahim Siddiqui, who is leaving the retailer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kodiak Building Partners<\/strong> has named Mike Flores as President of Zarsky Lumber Co. Inc. <\/strong>and Vince Welch as President of Sun Mountain Doors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nike Inc<\/strong>. has announced Michael Gonda will become Exec VP and Chief Communications Officer, effective July 7, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Spahn & Rose Lumber Co<\/strong>. has acquired Whit Davis Lumber Plus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Target Corporation <\/strong>has appointed Matt Drzewicki as its new Senior VP of Media.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Target Corporation<\/strong> is opening a new 147,000 sq. ft. store in Denton, TX.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Zara <\/strong>recently opened a new, two-floor store in Cambridge, MA.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 BJ\u2019s Restaurants Inc<\/strong>. has promoted Lyle Tick to President and CEO. The company also announced that its CFO, Thomas A. Houdek, has resigned.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Blaze Pizza LLC <\/strong>has promoted Jaime Denney to COO of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Blaze Pizza LLC<\/strong> announced its largest franchisee plan to open 25 new restaurants in Southern California.<\/p>\n

\u2022 CKE Restaurants Inc<\/strong>. announced the appointment of Ewan Davenport as President, International.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken<\/strong> announced that it has been acquired by Roark Capital.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Kilwin’s Chocolates Franchise Inc. <\/strong>has announced it plans to open 10 new store locations across Texas.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mooyah Franchise LLC <\/strong>has named Michael Meche as President of the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022 Aldi Inc. has promoted Atty McGrath to CEO United States. Jason Hart has been named as Group COO. \u2022 Coborn\u2019s Inc. has named Tanya Carlson its new Exec VP of Merchandising. \u2022 Krasdale Foods Inc. announced Guillermo Fisher has been promoted to General Manager Warehouse Operations. Rob Gangemi has been… Continue reading In Other Business News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":18504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-18487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retail","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487","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=18487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18527,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions\/18527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}