Supermarket, Grocery, & C-Store
• Ahold-Delhaize has revealed that its Chief Human Resources Officer, Abbe Luersman, will leave the company effective April 30, 2021.
• Krasdale Foods Inc. announced it has promoted Cynthia Ramos to Chief Sales Officer and Howie Kent to Director of Category Management and Sales Analytics.
• Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc. announced Roger Ahuja was recently promoted to Exec VP of Operations and Gary Price was promoted to Exec VP of Truck Care.
• Southeastern Grocers has launched their initial public offering with 8.9 million shares of common stock available.
Retail
• 84 Lumber Co. announced Joe Weston has been promoted to VP of Cost Forecasting & Pricing while Rich Scalise has been named as its new VP of Inventory Management.
• Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. announced that C. Eric Swank, COO, will be leaving the company at the end of February.
• Bridgestone Retail Operations LLC announced it has named Marko Ibrahim as President of Retail Operations.
• Conn’s HomePlus is opening two new locations and a distribution center in Florida. The new stores will open next month in Tampa and Bradenton, and the distribution center will be in Lakeland.
• Smoker Friendly plans to grow the company store count to 300 to 500 stores over the next few years.
Restaurant
• Another Broken Egg Café has opened a new location in Orlando, FL.
• Ike’s Love & Sandwiches has opened a new location in El Segundo, CA.
• Landry’s Restaurants Inc. is potentially in talks to go public. The company has not confirmed the rumors and the company was taken private in 2010.
• Long John Silver’s Inc. has promoted Blain Shortreed to CEO. Shortreed previously served as the company’s COO.
• Pieology Pizzeria has signed a new franchise agreement that will begin by bringing a new location to Ohio in March.
• Pizza Factory has hired Rob Searfus as a Franchise business coach.
• Premier Food Concepts, LLC has named Steve Holliday as COO. Holliday will replace Sean Allemah who has departed from the company.
• Sonic America’s Drive-In has plans to expand into the international market over the next few years. The international expansion will be testing new store formats that are more flexible in size.
