{"id":18899,"date":"2025-12-12T15:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18899"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:21:49","slug":"in-other-business-news-228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/12\/in-other-business-news-228\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0National Grocers Association <\/strong>has promoted Kari Wolkwitz to Director of Membership Engagement and Growth.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Yesway <\/strong>announced it has hired Chuck Sanders as VP of Merchandising.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Evergreens<\/strong> announced the appointment of Neil Harfert as CEO of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0In-N-Out Burger <\/strong>opened three new locations this week in Tennessee. They are the first restaurants in the state for the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Marco’s Franchising LLC <\/strong>announced the appointment of Steve Kennedy as Chief Marketing Officer. Bill Schaffler has been named CFO of the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Raising Cane\u2019s LLC <\/strong>said it plans to open its first stores in Mexico in the second half of 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Scooter\u2019s Coffee LLC <\/strong>announced the promotion of Mikala Friedrich to Chief Human Resources & Systems Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Shake Shack Inc.<\/strong> announced it expects to open up to 60 new locations in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Woody’s Brands, LLC<\/strong> has appointed Ray Risley as President of the company.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a01-800-Flowers.com <\/strong>has named Alexander Zelikovsky as its new CIO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Academy Sports & Outdoors <\/strong>reported it plans to open 20 to 25 new locations in fiscal 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Camping World Holdings<\/strong>, Inc<\/strong>. has appointed its current President, Matthew Wagner, as its new CEO. He replaces Marcus Lemonis, who will step down.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dollar General Corp<\/strong>. reported that it plans to open 450 new locations and remodel 4,250 stores, in fiscal 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Home Depot Canada<\/strong> has partnered with Instacart to offer delivery to its customers.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0L & W Supply<\/strong> has promoted Bill Withers to District Managers of its Northern Mid-Atlantic District. Ryan Donegan was promoted to District Manager of its NY Metro District.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lezzer Lumber Company<\/strong> has acquired H.P. Starr Lumber Co. LLC<\/strong>, with three locations in Western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0L.L. Bean Inc.<\/strong> reported it plans to open eight new stores in 2026, including its first-ever locations in Alabama and Tennessee.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The ODP Corporation <\/strong>announced that its CEO, Gerry P. Smith has left the company. Craig Gunckel has been named to succeed him.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Owens Corning<\/strong> has promoted Annie Baymiller to Exec VP, CIO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0National Grocers Association has promoted Kari Wolkwitz to Director of Membership Engagement and Growth. \u2022\u00a0Yesway announced it has hired Chuck Sanders as VP of Merchandising.   Restaurant \u2022\u00a0Evergreens announced the appointment of Neil Harfert as CEO of the company. \u2022\u00a0In-N-Out Burger opened three new locations this week in Tennessee. They are… Continue reading In Other Business News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":18547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-with-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-18899","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\/18899","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=18899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18903,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18899\/revisions\/18903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}