{"id":18919,"date":"2026-01-02T11:24:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=18919"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:38:45","slug":"in-other-business-news-230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2026\/01\/in-other-business-news-230\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>7-Eleven Inc<\/strong>. reported that Joe DePinto, its CEO, has retired. Stanley Reynolds and Douglas Rosencrans will serve as Interim co-CEOs.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0BP Products North America Inc<\/strong>. has appointed Meg O’Neill as the company’s next CEO, effective April 1, 2026. She will replace Murray Auchincloss. Carol Howle will serve as interim CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Whole Foods Market Inc<\/strong>. recently opened a new Whole Foods Market Daily Shop in Hoboken, NJ.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Doherty Enterprises Inc<\/strong>. plans to open 27 new Qdoba Mexican Eats restaurants in New Jersey and New York over the next several years.\u00a0The company plans to remodel 15 of its Applebee\u2019s locations in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Papa Johns\u2019 International, Inc<\/strong>. announced that its Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Madeline Chadwick, has left the company.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Starbucks Corporation<\/strong> announced the appointment of Anand Varadarajan as its new Exec VP and CTO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Sweetgreen, Inc<\/strong>. announced the retirement of Nathaniel Ru, its Chief Brand Officer and Co- Founder. Zipporah Allen has taken on the additional role of Chief Brand Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Twin Hospitality Group Inc<\/strong>. announced it will open its first location in Connecticut.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0Barnes & Noble <\/strong>announced that it plans to open 60 new locations in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Birkenstock <\/strong>recently opened its 15th<\/sup> store in the U.S. with a new location in Chestnut Hill, MA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0The Clarks Companies of North America Inc<\/strong>. recently opened its first Cloudsteppers store, in Corpus Christi, TX. Additional Cloudsteppers locations will open in Florida and North Carolina in the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Hancock Lumber Co<\/strong>. Inc<\/strong>. has named Curtis Pratt as the new Safety Director.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Mango Inc<\/strong>. recently opened its 60th<\/sup> U.S. location. The 11,000 sq. ft. store is the retailers\u2019 first in Illinois.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Pacific Sunwear of California Inc<\/strong>. plans to add 20 to 35 new stores over the next three years.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Paul Stuart Inc<\/strong>. has appointed John Hutchison as its new CEO.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0PGA TOUR Superstore, Inc<\/strong>. recently named Rebecca Charles as the company\u2019s new Chief Customer Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store 7-Eleven Inc. reported that Joe DePinto, its CEO, has retired. Stanley Reynolds and Douglas Rosencrans will serve as Interim co-CEOs. \u2022\u00a0BP Products North America Inc. has appointed Meg O’Neill as the company’s next CEO, effective April 1, 2026. She will replace Murray Auchincloss. Carol Howle will serve as interim CEO. \u2022\u00a0Whole… 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-18919","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\/18919","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=18919"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18924,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18919\/revisions\/18924"}],"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=18919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}