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April 19, 2012

HSN has named Anne Martin-Vachon chief merchandising officer, effective May 14.

April 16, 2012

The Walmart board of directors is poised for an infusion of fresh, and young, talent when shareholders vote to approve a slate of directors that includes Google’s VP of local and maps.

April 10, 2012

Family Dollar Stores has named Mary Winston to the position of EVP and CFO.

March 26, 2012

Former Sears chief marketing officer, Monica Woo, has joined Mozido, a leading global provider of low-cost, multi-channel financial services platform for mobile network operators, financial institutions, consumer packaged goods corporations and retailers, as EVP, global chief marketing and strategy officer.

March 21, 2012

The National Retail Federation has named Ellen Davis SVP and executive director of the NRF Foundation, the education and research arm of NRF.

February 7, 2012

Walmart's Greg Foran will be packing bags and heading to China.

February 2, 2012

Macy’s Inc. announced that Peter Sachse, the company's chief marketing officer and chairman of Macys.com, will succeed Ron Klein as chief stores officer, effective Feb. 13.

January 31, 2012

Apple Monday named a replacement for former retail head Ron Johnson, who left the company last year to become CEO of JCPenney.

January 27, 2012

Lowe’s has announced that Richard Dreiling has joined its board of directors.

December 9, 2011

Joe McClanathan, president and CEO of the Energizer household products division, will retire in the first half of 2012, Energizer Holdings announced Friday. He will be succeeded by Alan Hoskins, VP Asia-Pacific, Africa and Middle East.

November 14, 2011

JCPenney, which reported sales and income decreases for the third quarter, has brought on two new executives to join fellow Apple alumnus, CEO, Ron Johnson.

October 18, 2011

Belk, a Southern, U.S.-based department-store retailer announced that Mark Chandler has joined the company as EVP operations, reporting to Johnny Belk, president and COO.

September 15, 2011

Saks announced that Denise Incandela, president Saks Direct and EVP of Saks Fifth Avenue, has been named chief marketing officer for Saks Fifth Avenue, a newly created role

June 20, 2011

Last week, RetailingToday.com reported that former Apple executive Ron Johnson would succeed Mike Ullman as CEO of JCPenney. Today, JCPenney announced that Ullman, who was originally slated to remain on the company's board of directors indefinitely, will now be leaving the company on Feb. 1, 2012.

June 14, 2011

Things just got a whole lot more interesting in the mid-tier department store space now that JCPenney has hired former Apple executive Ron Johnson to be its CEO.

February 15, 2011

Walgreens last month promoted Mia Scholz from corporate VP accounting and controller to SVP accounting and controller. She joined Walgreens in 1999 as director of internal audit. She was named a divisional VP in 2003, and promoted to corporate VP accounting and controller in 2007.

April 14, 2009

Linda Hefner is the new head merchant at Sam’s Club, the company announced. Hefner previously...

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