{"id":19203,"date":"2026-06-18T23:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=19203"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:32:23","slug":"in-other-business-news-253","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2026\/06\/in-other-business-news-253\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"Free<\/a>\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Ahold Delhaize<\/strong> USA has nominated Claire Peters as CEO, effective Sept. 8 pending shareholder approval. JJ Fleeman will depart at the end of June.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Publix Super Markets<\/strong> has elected Jill Livesay to its Board of Directors, effective July 1.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Armand\u2019s Pizzeria & Grille<\/strong> will permanently close its last remaining location in Rockville, MD, on June 20.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Bonchon<\/strong> has opened its first location in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, marking its first restaurant in that market.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Buffalo Wild Wings<\/strong> has opened its first Columbus-area GO location in central Ohio.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Carrot<\/strong> has rebranded from Carrot Express and opened a new Upper West Side location in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Good Ambler<\/strong> will open its second cafe and bakery location at The Pass at Two North Riverside Plaza in Chicago on June 22.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Pura Vida Miami<\/strong> has named Chad Brauze Chief Culinary Officer, Andrew McCaughan Chief Development Officer, and Bruno Cardinali Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Slutty Vegan<\/strong> has signed a franchise agreement to enter Detroit, marking the brand\u2019s Midwest debut.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Build-A-Bear Workshop<\/strong> has formally named Chris Hurt CEO, added Chief Administrative Officer duties to CFO Voin Todorovic, and appointed Dave Henderson Chief Growth Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>The Container Store<\/strong> will permanently close its Gaithersburg, MD, location on July 18.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods<\/strong> plans to expand Lids<\/strong> shop-in-shops to more than 100 stores by late summer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Dollar General<\/strong> has announced nine officer appointments, including Travis Nixon as Senior Vice President and Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Kohl\u2019s<\/strong> has named former Foot Locker<\/strong> executive Elliott Rodgers Chief Operations Officer, effective in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store \u2022\u00a0Ahold Delhaize USA has nominated Claire Peters as CEO, effective Sept. 8 pending shareholder approval. JJ Fleeman will depart at the end of June. \u2022\u00a0Publix Super Markets has elected Jill Livesay to its Board of Directors, effective July 1.   Restaurant \u2022\u00a0Armand\u2019s Pizzeria & Grille will permanently close its last remaining… Continue reading In Other Business News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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-19203","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\/19203","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19207,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19203\/revisions\/19207"}],"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=19203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}