May Names John Dunham Chairman and CEO

St. Louis, May Department Stores has tapped John Dunham as its permanent chairman and CEO, prior to the retailer’s $11 billion acquisition by rival Federated Department Stores Inc. Dunham already had been May’s president, and had assumed the duties of acting chairman and CEO upon the Jan. 14 resignation of Gene Kahn. The executive appointment was revealed in a filing this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission.