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PetSmart, Inc. names six new leaders to its senior leadership team
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, 2015-4-2 — /EPR Retail News/ — PetSmart, Inc. (“PetSmart” or the “Company”) today named six new leaders to its senior leadership team who, collectively, will be responsible for key growth areas of the Company, including customer experience, merchandise planning, strategy, initiatives, sourcing and real estate.
The additions to the senior leadership team reflect the first major hires by PetSmart’s newly-installed President and CEO, Michael Massey. Attracting top talent to oversee key business areas and divisions has been a top priority for Mr. Massey, and these appointments further the Company’s renewed and refocused commitment to providing the very best products and services to Pet Parents and their pets.
“As we develop our strategic plan to grow the company, we are making significant and impactful investments by adding top talent to the leadership team and creating new structures and processes to help strengthen operations as we move forward,” said Michael Massey, president and CEO of PetSmart. “This seasoned team of proven retail experts will help PetSmart realize our goal of building emotional connections with Pet Parents at all touch points, efficiently delivering everything they need and want, and doing it all at the best value.”
Joining the Company are: Eran Cohen, executive vice president of Customer Experience; Ron Cooperman, executive vice president of Strategy, Initiatives and Real Estate; Ted Passig, executive vice president of Buying and Sourcing; Phil Vostrejs, executive vice president of Merchandise Planning Allocation, Distribution and Supply Chain; and Brian Amkraut, senior vice president of Real Estate.
The Company also announced today that Gregg Scanlon has been promoted to senior vice president of Store Operations and Services and through this promotion has been named to the senior leadership team.
Eran Cohen, EVP of Customer Experience, will oversee all aspects of PetSmart’s customer experience and seek to better engage consumers at every touch point with the company (in-store, online, mobile). He will also refocus the Company’s efforts on digital integration and social interaction to create seamless, positive experiences for all customers. Eran will join PetSmart from Diane Von Furstenberg, a global luxury lifestyle brand, where he oversaw global marketing, e-commerce and public relations – including digital media and strategy. Mr. Cohen also served as chief marketing officer at New York & Co, Inc. and Payless ShoeSource and in senior leadership positions at Gap, Inc. and Esprit de Corp.
Ron Cooperman, EVP Strategy, Initiatives and Real Estate, will oversee the development and execution of the Company’s real estate strategy to support PetSmart’s growth plan. He will lead a new area called retail initiatives, including exploring new formats to engage customers in new markets. He will also oversee the Real Estate area. Mr. Cooperman has worked in various industries including medical devices, quick serve restaurants and financial services. He served in a number of leadership roles at Collective Brands.
Ted Passig, EVP Buying and Sourcing, will lead a redesigned merchant organization as well as a new product development and sourcing organization that will drive efficiency and create a best-in-class direct overseas sourcing operation streamlining the Company’s product cost. A retail veteran with more than 25 years of experience, Mr. Passig is a strategic, results-driven leader who has held several senior roles in buying and stores at The May Department Stores, Homeplace and Payless ShoeSource.
Phil Vostrejs, EVP of Merchandising Planning, Allocation, Distribution and Supply Chain, will oversee a new, streamlined planning, allocation and distribution organization that best supports the Company’s growth plan. With more than 20 years of retail experience, Phil is a seasoned leader with experience in merchandise planning and distribution, and specific expertise in consumer segmentation, strategic planning and execution.
Brian Amkraut, SVP Real Estate, will work alongside Ron Cooperman in designing the Company’s overall real estate strategy to drive growth through market identification and development, store design and format change and increasing the efficiency of store construction. Amkraut is a proven retail leader with experience in retail operations, merchandising, store development and procurement. He joins PetSmart from Payless Holdings after serving in strategy roles for CVS Health and the Boston Consulting Group.
The Company also announced that Phil Bowman (executive vice president of Customer Experience), Matt McAdam (executive vice president of Merchandising and Real Estate), and Eddie Burt (senior vice president of Real Estate) are no longer with PetSmart effective today. In addition, Bruce Thorn (executive vice president of Store Operations, Services and Supply Chain) has decided to leave the Company.
Michael J. Massey was named president and CEO on March 11, 2015 following the completion of PetSmart’s previously announced acquisition by a consortium led by BC Partners and including La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, StepStone and Longview Asset Management.
About PetSmart
PetSmart, Inc. is the largest specialty pet retailer of services and solutions for the lifetime needs of pets. At PetSmart, we believe pets make us better people. That’s why we create more moments for people to be inspired by pets. This mission impacts everything we do for our customers, the way we support our associates, and how we give back to our communities. We employ approximately 53,000 associates, operate approximately 1,404 pet stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico and approximately 202 in-store PetSmart® PetsHotel® dog and cat boarding facilities. PetSmart provides a broad range of competitively priced pet food and pet products and offers dog training, pet grooming, pet boarding, PetSmart Doggie Day Camp day care services and pet adoption services in-store. Through petsmart.com and pet360.com, we offer the most comprehensive online pet supplies and pet care information in the U.S. Through our in-store pet adoption partnership with independent nonprofit organizations, PetSmart Charities™ and PetSmart Charities™ of Canada, PetSmart helps to save the lives of more than 400,000 homeless pets each year. In addition, PetSmart supports organizations that make communities a better place to call home through our philanthropy program, PetSmart Gives Back™. By giving back to the communities where we live and work, PetSmart not only celebrates the power of pets to enrich people’s lives—we live it.
Media Contacts
Teneo Strategy
Jimmy Asci
(202) 352-1829
jimmy.asci@teneostrategy.com
PetSmart
Michelle Friedman
(602) 478-0788
mfriedman@ssg.petsmart.com
GHENT, 14-Mar-2023 — /EuropaWire/ — Franklin Junction partners with Casper, a modern day food hall offering 100% virtual orders for takeout and delivery, to expand iconic American restaurant brands to Benelux and France. Franklin Junction founder, Rishi Nigam, and Casper founder, Matthias Laga, presented their expansion plans at the recent International Ghost Kitchen Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Franklin Junction has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023 as they continue to deliver innovative technology solutions for restaurants in the US and now abroad. Leading the way with their proprietary Host Kitchen® model, Franklin Junction has grown into a full suite of solution services to empower restaurant success in the digital age. In 2022, Franklin Junction introduced its AI-powered digital food hall that allows consumers to order food and earn loyalty from multiple concepts in a single transaction and delivery.
“As industry leaders driving the growth of American restaurant brands in new markets, we have received a tremendous amount of interest to expand to the European market for a few years now,” shares Franklin Junction CEO Rishi Nigam. “After getting to know Matthias and the entire Casper team over the past year, we have full confidence that they are a trusted partner to expand globally with and we’re thrilled to bring iconic American fare to new diners across Europe.”
Casper launched in Ghent, Belgium and raised €5 million for their Series A in 2022 with the objective of creating a hybrid restaurant and food hall model where customers can walk-in to place orders for takeout or order through digital channels for delivery. In just a short time, Casper has expanded to over 10 locations in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, with an expansion goal of 50 kitchens by 2024.
“We’re very excited to partner with Franklin Junction and begin by introducing Nathan’s Famous’ authentic New York flavors to our European customers in the coming weeks,” states Matthias Laga, Co-founder and CEO of Casper. “Franklin Junction uniquely understands restaurants, multi-concept food halls, and restaurant eCommerce and their proprietary processes are extremely virtuous for all stakeholders.”
SOURCE: EuropaWire
The Retailer will interview CEOs, influencers, and professional athletes on a weekly basis
New York, New York, USA, 2022-Dec-23 — /EPR Network/ — coop & spree, the New York City based contemporary retailer, has launched a podcast called coop convos, which is all things business, retail, sports and wellness. Coop convos is hosted by coop & spree CEO and founder, Brooke S. Richman, who will interview various business leaders, tastemakers, and influencers in their aforementioned industries. Since Richman is an avid New York Knicks Fan (the Spree in coop & spree comes from her childhood pup’s name which paid homage to former Knick, Latrell Sprewell), she’s even interviewed and secured some former NBA stars.
The Podcast is available on over 10 platforms, and the first episode will likely air February 1st, 202 depending on the rifting process. To date, Richman has secured over 35 prestigious guests and has already recorded episodes with Stephanie Gottlieb, founder of Stephanie Gottlieb Fine Jewelry, Dale Stabler, wellness entrepreneur and co-founder of Sweats + The City, co-founder of the Orro + Theheard apps, and Allan Houston, the 2x NBA All-Star for the New York Knicks, Olympic Gold Medalist, and founder of FISLL,
Notable confirmed guests include Emily Faith Strauss, founder and designer of EF Collection, Helen Hall-Leland, CEO of Blender Bombs and Hustle Smoothie Bar, Alexa Leigh Meyer Mufson, founder and designer of Alexa Leigh, and John Wallace, former NBA star, current investor, philanthropist and New York Knick radio host.
During the start of the pandemic in March 2020, Richman moved temporarily from her NYC apartment to her childhood home in Greenwich, CT, where she learned how to code and created her e-comm website, coopandspreevip.com. Since her Elizabeth Street store in NYC was closed due to the pandemic, she had all her vendors ship her orders to her CT home where she fulfilled them. When she wasn’t opening new merchandise or packaging her clients’ orders, she would use Instagram live as a way to engage with her coop & spree audience, since she no longer could interact with them in person. She decided to start interviewing different designers and influencers, many of whom she knew and many of whom she had never met, and she absolutely loved it. So did her audience. It turned into a weekly tradition and the rest, as they say, is history. Not only did these weekly IG TV “interviews” create much needed connection at a time of unprecedented isolation, but also, they provided Richman, and coop & spree, with a new way of engaging with both customers and vendors.
Coop convos has the same format as Richman’s IG lives, where Richman focuses on each guest’s career path and personal story, in a relaxed format, that seems less like an interview and more like two old friends catching up. While the Podcast’s main goal is to provide valuable and informative insights and resources to those specifically interested in entrepreneurship, retail, sports, and wellness, Richman promises it’s also filled with lighthearted banter and just the right number of laughs.
WEBSITES:
coopandspreevip.com
coopconvos.com
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ABOUT COOP & SPREE
coop & spree, the brainchild of founder and CEO Brooke S. Richman, first opened in August 2014 in downtown New York City’s Nolita neighborhood as a multi-brand contemporary women’s apparel, accessory, and jewelry boutique. While it was solely brick-and-mortar by design when it opened, coop & spree had to pivot during the COVID-19 pandemic and is now a full-fledged omni-channel retailer with over 70 brands. It operates both a physical store in New York City’s NoHoc neighborhood, via appointment only, and has an e-commerce shopping site. In addition to selling women’s contemporary apparel, accessories, and jewelry, coop & spree has expanded its product offering to include an extensive assortment of children’s apparel and accessories, health and wellness products, paper goods, novelty items and more. coop & spree was just listed this month as a winner on the Inc. Magazine’s Best of Business 2022 list in the “Lean and Mean” category due to its unwavering commitment to philanthropy, specifically to NYC based non-profits which help underprivileged youths in NYC. It’s been featured in publications such as Women’s Wear Daily, The New York Times, US Weekly, Huffington Post, Business Insider and more.
For media inquires:
media@coopandspree.com
NICOSIA, Cyprus, 2022-Sep-28 — /EPR Network/ — ContactPigeon, one of the leading omnichannel customer engagement platforms for retailers in Europe and the USA, expands its operations in Cyprus. By building up a special team of professionals that will be based in the neighboring country, ContactPigeon will be providing its customer engagement services to its cross-industry clients that are operating there. With this expansion, the Greek startup aims to consolidate its reach to the thriving Cyprus market.
Furthermore, ContactPigeon becomes an official sponsor for the 14th e-Commerce Conference that took place in Nicosia, Cyprus on the 20th of September 2022.
The E-Commerce Conference by IMH is a benchmark for the e-commerce industry in Cyprus. With industry experts as keynote speakers and leading businesses as sponsors and participants, the conference presents the upcoming, international trends in the e-commerce sector as well as case studies that provide attendees with valuable knowledge and insights. The 14th E-Commerce Conference is addressed to entrepreneurs, Commercial Managers, Marketing & Communication and advertising professionals, Digital Managers, and also those who are interested to start operating in the e-Commerce sector.
This year, the participants had the opportunity to meet with ContactPigeon members at its booth and learn about the company’s activities and the benefits of its omnichannel customer engagement platform.
About ContactPigeon
ContactPigeon empowers marketing leaders and business owners with the only omnichannel customer engagement platform built for retailers. The platform is designed to deliver perfectly timed and personalized messages for each customer, regardless of whether the point of contact is offline or online. The company has been awarded numerous industry awards and distinctions since 2015 and is also a member of the Pledge 1% corporate philanthropy movement. Its client base consists of hundreds of retailers in Europe and the USA such as Fujitsu, Tommy Hilfiger, GAP, and L’OREAL.
Contacts
Anna Fotopoulou
Content Marketing Coordinator
+30 211 8006178
marketing@contactpigeon.com
www.contactpigeon.com
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