{"id":3923,"date":"2014-06-20T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T08:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2014-06-20T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T08:53:10","slug":"industry-updates-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-june-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2014\/06\/industry-updates-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-june-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Updates: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>24 Hour Fitness<\/strong> announced that Mark Smith will join the company as CEO, and Frank Napolitano has been named President.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cardinal Health<\/strong> announced that after a decade as CFO, Jeff Henderson will retire following the completion of fiscal\u00a0year 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GNC<\/strong> CFO Mike Nuzzo had resigned his position to accept a role at <strong>4moms<\/strong> as Chief Administrative Officer and Exec VP of Business Development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gold&#8217;s Gym<\/strong> Southern California Franchise Group has appointed Paul Becker as its new CFO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>McKesson Canada<\/strong> announced Alain Champagne as its new President.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Planet Fitness<\/strong>, Newington, NH, has appointed Corey Benish as its Chief Information Officer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shopko<\/strong> announced that veteran pharmacy executive Michael Cantrell has joined the company as Senior VP, Retail Health. In this role, Cantrell will provide strategic direction for Shopko&#8217;s pharmacy, optical and Rx e departments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Industry Insight<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Penn State Hershey Health System<\/strong> joined<strong> Rite Aid\u2019s <\/strong>Health Alliance initiative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Walmart<\/strong> opened its first healthcare clinic in Texas which will charge its employees $4 a visit if they are covered by Walmart\u2019s health insurance and $40 for all other customers. Later this month it will open its second and third Walmart Care Clinic.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forstmann Little and Co.<\/strong> announced it has completed the sale of its four <strong>24 Hour Fitness Worldwide Inc<\/strong>. clubs in New York City, to AEA Investors and the Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension Plan, Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gold&#8217;s Gym<\/strong> announced its acquisition of Aspen Athletic Clubs in Midwest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vitamin Shoppe Inc.<\/strong> has purchased FDC Vitamins LLC, also known as Nutri-Force Nutrition, from MBF Healthcare Partners L.P. and other minority holders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates: 24 Hour Fitness announced that Mark Smith will join the company as CEO, and Frank Napolitano has been named President. Cardinal Health announced that after a decade as CFO, Jeff Henderson will retire following the completion of fiscal\u00a0year 2015. GNC CFO Mike Nuzzo had resigned his position to accept a role at 4moms&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2014\/06\/industry-updates-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-june-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry Updates: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 June 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-hbc","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}