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BJ’s Wholesale Club taps Bob Eddy as CEO

Mass Relators

BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc. Bob’s leadership, strategic vision and deep knowledge of the business have been pivotal in driving BJ’s Wholesale Club’s transformation and record growth across all key metrics,” BJ’s executive chairman Christopher Baldwin said. WESTBOROUGH, Mass.

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Analysis: Synergies begin to show after merger of SEA hypermarkets

Inside Retail

Soon after Britain’s Tesco abandoned its retail business in Thailand and Malaysia in early 2021, its buyer, Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Group, merged it with its Siam Makro wholesale arm. The retail and wholesale businesses accounted for a roughly even split of the company’s 219.6 billion baht ($9.4 There’s a buzz in the malls.

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LSKD appoints first chief retail officer as part of its “audacious” growth plan

Inside Retail

During her time at Lululemon, which spanned 13 years from 2012 to 2020, Shaughnessy led over 40 stores and oversaw the brand’s national wholesale and community presence in ANZ. Team development The LSKD team prides itself on actively creating a learning culture that encourages collaboration and accountability.

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SpartanNash names Petko EVP, Chief Supply Chain Officer

Mass Relators

He oversees all aspects of SpartanNash’s global supply chain, which serves 145 Company-owned stores, over 2,100 independent retailers and national accounts throughout the U.S., Petko previously served as senior vice president of supply chain for C&S Wholesale Grocers. as well as U.S.

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SoulMakes is a Leader in Crystal & Gemstone Gifts

Independent Retailer

Beginning in a basement apartment in 2012, this husband and wife duo started out making jewelry with crystals. Now, SoulMakes exclusively offers wholesale to boutique, tourist, resort, and general merchandise stores. Crystals & Gemstones Galore. The brand also plans to offer more larger decor items later in the summer.

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Casper CEO’s Roadmap to Profitability: Control Costs, Expand Wholesale and Cater to Customers

Retail TouchPoints

What that meant was that we were anti-customer; we were optimized around internal channel accounting and not what was in the best interest of the customer. So in 2012 we rebuilt, top to bottom, the entire company so we could replenish stores and ship to the customer from the same inventory pool. How do you view those channels?

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Independent grocers drive economic growth

Mass Relators

The wholesalers serving independent grocers account for more than 44,000 additional jobs (and nearly $3.3 Independent grocery sales account for 33% of total grocery sales, up from 25% a decade ago. billion, from $131 billion, in the independent sector since 2012, the data year for the last study. of the 2020 U.S.

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