{"id":18491,"date":"2025-06-27T09:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18242"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:18:54","slug":"in-other-business-news-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/06\/in-other-business-news-208\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022 Ahold-Delhaize<\/strong> has named Jason Wilson as its new CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Buc-ee\u2019s Ltd.<\/strong> opened its first location in Virginia this week. The 74,000 sq. ft. store is in Mt. Crawford, VA.<\/p>\n

\u2022 C & S Wholesale Grocers Inc<\/strong>. has agreed to acquire SpartanNash Company<\/strong>. The transaction is expected to close later this year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Georgia Market<\/strong> has named Zev Werts as its new Owner, after Ray Bouffard has retired.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Heritage Grocers Group<\/strong> said it has named Leticia G. Espinoza as its new Chief Administrative Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Kroger Co<\/strong>. reported that it plans to close approximately 60 locations by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Love\u2019s Travel Stops<\/strong> & Country Stores Inc<\/strong>. has named Tim Langley-Hawthorne as its new Chief Technology Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Refuel Operating Company, LLC <\/strong>has promoted Travis Smith and Jon Rier to co-CEOs of the company. Mark Jordan will become Chairman.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 BJ\u2019s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc<\/strong>. reported it plans to open a new store in Springfield, MA.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Boise Cascade Company<\/strong> has promoted Rob Johnson to Senior VP of Manufacturing.<\/p>\n

\u2022 J.Jill, Inc<\/strong>. has appointed Courtney O’Connor as Senior VP and Chief Merchandising Officer. She succeeds Shelley Liebsch, who has left the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mango Inc<\/strong>. has opened its 50th<\/sup> store in the U.S., with a new location in Portland, OR.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Spencer Spirit Holdings Inc<\/strong>. plans to hire approximately 50,000 people to support more than 1,500 Spirit Halloween locations expected to open in the United States and Canada later this holiday season.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tailored Brands, Inc<\/strong>. has promoted John Tighe to CEO, effective August 5. Peter Sachse will transition from to Executive Chairman.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc<\/strong>. announced that its CFO, Paula Oyibo, has left the company. Chris Lialios has been appointed as Interim CFO.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>A&W Restaurants Inc<\/strong>. announced it plans to open three new locations across the Columbia, SC area over the next few years.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Darden Restaurants Inc<\/strong>. reported that Dan Kiernan, President of Olive Garden<\/strong>, will retire August 31. He will be succeeded by John Wilkerson, current President of Cheddar\u2019s Scratch Kitchen.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Inspire Brands <\/strong>announced Shannan Siemens has been promoted to Chief Communications Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jack in the Box Inc<\/strong>. has announced the appointment of Shannon McKinney as Senior VP, COO.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Qdoba Mexican Eats<\/strong> has recently opened its 800th<\/sup> location, in Miami, FL.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Smashburger Master LLC<\/strong> announced Denise Nelsen, its CEO, is no longer with the company. No successor has been named yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Stores \u2022 Ahold-Delhaize has named Jason Wilson as its new CFO. \u2022 Buc-ee\u2019s Ltd. opened its first location in Virginia this week. The 74,000 sq. ft. store is in Mt. Crawford, VA. \u2022 C & S Wholesale Grocers Inc. has agreed to acquire SpartanNash Company. The transaction is expected to close later… 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":[17,11],"class_list":["post-18491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retail","tag-csg-exclusive","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491","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=18491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18520,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491\/revisions\/18520"}],"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=18491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}