{"id":5055,"date":"2015-06-17T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2015-06-17T08:00:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T08:00:40","slug":"industry-updates-apparel-specialty-stores-and-department-stores-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2015\/06\/industry-updates-apparel-specialty-stores-and-department-stores-june-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Updates: Apparel Specialty Stores and Department Stores \u2013 June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chico\u2019s FAS<\/strong> announced that CEO and President David F. Dyer intends to retire in spring 2016.<\/p>\n

Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods<\/strong> named Teri List-Stoll Exec VP and CFO. She will join the company in August 2015. Andre Hawaux will relinquish his CFO responsibilities.<\/p>\n

Hudson’s Bay Company<\/strong> has appointed Dan Caspersen as Chief of Human Resources.<\/p>\n

The Men’s Wearhouse, Inc.<\/strong> has named Ben Baum as Exec VP and Chief Digital Officer.<\/p>\n

Neiman Marcus Group<\/strong> announced Donald T. Grimes as Exec VP, COO and CFO. Jim Skinner will continue to be part of the company\u2019s management team in the newly created role of Vice Chairman.<\/p>\n

Nike Inc.<\/strong> announced Jim Scholefield will become CIO on June 29.<\/p>\n

True Religion Apparel Inc.<\/strong> has named John Ermatinger CEO. Current CEO David Conn is stepping down.<\/p>\n

Vera Bradley<\/strong> announced that Theresa Palermo has been named Chief Marketing Officer and will join the company on June 22.<\/p>\n

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Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Boot Barn Holdings<\/strong> announced it will acquire Sheplers<\/strong>. The company plans to rebrand the 25 Sheplers stores to the Boot Barn banner.<\/p>\n

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Industry Insight<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Fashion retailers Zara, Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer, Uniqlo <\/strong>and Pandora<\/strong> are the latest to sign on as Downtown Disney continues its expansion into Disney Springs at Walt Disney World Resort.<\/p>\n

Blue Nile<\/strong> has opened its first freestanding store. The 325 sq. ft. space is located at Roosevelt Field Mall, Garden City, NY.<\/p>\n

Gap Inc.<\/strong> has opened its first Gap store in India. The 10,000 sq. ft. flagship store is located in the Select City Walk in south Delhi.<\/p>\n

Kohl\u2019s Corp. <\/strong>confirmed reports that it will soon begin testing a highly discounted format, called “Off Aisle by Kohl\u2019s,\u201d with a store set to open in early June in Cherry Hill, NJ.<\/p>\n

Macy\u2019s Inc.<\/strong> is piloting an in-home tailoring service for clothes that shoppers buy on its web sites.<\/p>\n

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Real Estate<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Charming Charlie<\/strong> has unveiled its first New York City flagship store. The three-level 16,000 sq. ft. flagship store will be located on Fifth Avenue. The company also announced the first Charming Charlie stores are scheduled to open in the Philippines in late 2015.<\/p>\n

Gander Mountain<\/strong> opened new 61,000 sq. ft. stores in El Paso, TX on May 26 and O’Fallon, IL on May 28.<\/p>\n

Macy\u2019s Inc.<\/strong> announced two more pilot store locations in metro New York City for its new off-price format, Macy\u2019s Backstage. The additional stores brings to six the total number of Macy\u2019s Backstage for launch. All are expected to open in fall 2015 and average about 30,000 sq. ft. The added locations are at Fordham Place in The Bronx, and Essex Green Shopping Center, West Orange, NJ, where an existing Macy\u2019s store will be converted to Macy\u2019s Backstage.<\/p>\n

Robert Graham<\/strong> is opening a retail store in Phipps Plaza in Atlanta, GA in July.<\/p>\n

Saks Inc.<\/strong> opened a new 40,500-square-foot Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th store at 901 Market St. in San Francisco, CA on May 28.<\/p>\n

Shoe Carnival<\/strong> expects to open 18 to 19 new stores and close 10 to 14 stores in fiscal 2015.<\/p>\n

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Technology News<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Neiman Marcus Group<\/strong> customers will be able to purchase items through the new \u201cBuyable Pins\u201d e-commerce service across Pinterest later in June.<\/p>\n

Nordstrom Inc.<\/strong> is launching a text-based shopping service called TextStyle at all 116 U.S. stores. Customers can now make curated purchases from their salesperson or personal stylist using text messaging.<\/p>\n

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Personnel Updates Chico\u2019s FAS announced that CEO and President David F. Dyer intends to retire in spring 2016. Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods named Teri List-Stoll Exec VP and CFO. She will join the company in August 2015. Andre Hawaux will relinquish his CFO responsibilities. Hudson’s Bay Company has appointed Dan Caspersen as Chief of Human Resources.… Continue reading Industry Updates: Apparel Specialty Stores and Department Stores \u2013 June 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[14],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apparel-department","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}