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  • Gap is exclusive winner of inclusion award

    Gap Inc. CEO Art Peck was in New York on March 16 to receive the 2016 Catalyst Award from an organization focused on accelerating progress for women through workplace inclusion.

  • Finish Line names HBC exec CIO

    Finish Line has hired a high power technology executive to make sure it avoids recent technology implementation challenges in the future while keeping pace with athletic footwear consumers’ desire for an omnichannel experience.

  • Ross Stores expands Chicago footprint

    Ross Dress for Less on March 5 opened two new stores in the Chicago area.

    The retailer opened a 27,000-sq.-ft. location in Berwyn, in Cermak Plaza, nine miles west of downtown Chicago at the southeast corner of West Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue.

    It also opened an Archer Heights location, a 25,000-sq.-ft. store in the Pulaski Promenade, nine miles southwest of downtown Chicago at the northwest corner of 42nd Place and Pulaski Road.

  • H&M launches garment 'rehaul' with M.I.A.

    H&M is joining forces with one of the most influential urban artists in music on a campaign with appeal to many of today's fashion shoppers.

    From April 18 to April 24, H&M aims to collect 1,000 tons of unwanted garments from customers in its more than 3,600 stores worldwide. The initiative is part of H&M’s goal to close the loop in fashion by recycling garments to create reusable textile fibers.

  • Finish Line names Hudson’s Bay exec as CIO

    Finish Line has hired a high power technology executive to make sure it avoids recent technology implementation challenges in the future while keeping pace with athletic footwear consumers’ desire for an omnichannel experience.

  • Stein Mart names a new CEO

    Stein Mart has named a new CEO just a week after a tough fourth quarter in which the retailer posted a decline in profit.

    The Florida-based company says it has appointed Dawn Robertson as CEO and a member of the board of directors. Robertson will also have the responsibilities of chief merchant for the foreseeable future, the company said. She succeeds Jay Stein, the company's founder and long standing CEO, who had advised the board of his desire to step back from that position but remain Stein Mart's chairman of the board.

  • Profit rises 14% at Children's Place in Q4

    The Children's Place posted strong same-store sales for the fourth quarter as the children’s clothes retailer also released an upbeat forecast for the year.

    For the fourth quarter ended Jan. 30, net sales increased 4% to $498.5 million. Same store sales increased 6.7%. Net income was $17.5 million, or 87 cents per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $17 million, or 79 cents per diluted share, the previous year.

  • Neiman Marcus comps decline for 2nd straight quarter

    Neiman Marcus posted declines in revenue and same-store sales on the same day that the company losta 25-year veteran who had been responsible for in-store visual design.

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