{"id":18904,"date":"2025-12-19T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18904"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:37:34","slug":"in-other-business-news-229","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2025\/12\/in-other-business-news-229\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Ahold-Delhaize<\/strong> reportedly is closing six centers in Coopersburg, Lancaster, North Coventry, Philadelphia, and Willow Grove, PA, and Manassas, VA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Kowalski’s Companies Inc.<\/strong> announced it has partnered with Uber Eats to offer delivery to its customers.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Kroger Co<\/strong>. plans to open a new distribution center in Franklin, KY.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Stater Bros. Holdings Inc<\/strong>. recently partnered with Uber Eats to offer delivery to its customers.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a07 Brew Drive-Thru Coffee<\/strong> announced it has named Matthew Dunnigan as its new CFO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Angry Chickz<\/strong> reported it will open 25 new locations in New Mexico and Texas over the next five years.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Ascent Hospitality Management<\/strong> has named Matt Carpenter as its new Perkins Brand President.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Buffalo Wild Wings Inc<\/strong>. announced Tristan Meline has been promoted to President of the company. Leandro Gasparin has been named as President, Buffalo Wild Wings Go.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Captain D\u2019s LLC<\/strong> has opened its first restaurant in New York City. The new 650 sq. ft. location is in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Handel\u2019s Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt<\/strong> has named Deepak Kahlon as VP of Operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Inspire Brands<\/strong> reported that John Dawson has been named President of U.S. Development. Jon Gill has been promoted to President of the Company Restaurants division.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pieology Pizzeria<\/strong> has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Riko\u2019s Pizza<\/strong> announced that Carl Bachmann has been promoted to CEO of the company. Rico Imbrogno will transition to the role of Executive Chairman.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sonic Corp<\/strong>. has appointed John Kelly as its new President.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sonny’s Franchise Company<\/strong> has promoted George McAllan to Brand President.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Amazon.com Inc<\/strong>. has named Caitlin Leibert as Global Head of Sustainability for Worldwide Grocery.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Big Red Liquors Inc<\/strong>. announced it has partnered with Uber Eats to offer delivery to its customers.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0BlueLinx Holdings Corporation<\/strong> has announced that Mike Wilson will retire as the company\u2019s Chief Commercial Officer. Leo Oei will succeed him.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Dollar General Corp<\/strong>. announced Matthew Simonsen has been promoted to Senior VP of Business Intelligence and Development. April Crofford has been promoted to VP of Store Facilities Management. Tito Rydinsky has been promoted to Division VP of Store Operations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Lululemon Athletica Inc<\/strong>. announced that Calvin McDonald will step down as CEO, effective January 31. Meghan Frank, CFO, and Andre Maestrini, Chief Commercial Officer will serve as Interim Co-CEOs.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Von Maur Inc<\/strong>. will open a new 164,000 sq. ft. store in New Jersey in fall 2027. It will be the first Von Maur location in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Ahold-Delhaize reportedly is closing six centers in Coopersburg, Lancaster, North Coventry, Philadelphia, and Willow Grove, PA, and Manassas, VA. \u2022\u00a0Kowalski’s Companies Inc. announced it has partnered with Uber Eats to offer delivery to its customers. \u2022\u00a0The Kroger Co. plans to open a new distribution center in Franklin, KY. \u2022\u00a0Stater Bros. Holdings… 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-18904","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\/18904","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=18904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18913,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18904\/revisions\/18913"}],"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=18904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}