Toronto — DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse has launched a shop-in-shop boutique called ‘What’s the Occasion?’ to deliver a unique, year-round destination for special-event shopping. The concept opened in the greater Toronto area at the DSW Heartland and Vaughan Mills locations, as well as online, on November 1, 2018.
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San Francisco — On October 23, 2018, Southern California-inspired Vuori Clothing opened its latest brick-and-mortar store at 2070 Union St. in San Francisco. Vuori’s expansion to San Francisco follows tremendous success at its flagship store in the beach city of Encinitas, Calif.
Orangeburg, N.Y. — Daikin America has partnered with TOPS Friendly Markets LLC to complete the first refrigeration conversion of a U.S. supermarket from R-22 to Creard R-407H. At the TOPS store in Alden, N.Y., 1,200 lbs. of Creard R-407H has been used to provide more than 25 cooling tons in medium-temperature refrigerated cases and displays. It has replaced R-22.
St. Louis — Just in time for the holidays, Build-A-Bear Workshop® is bringing its signature Make-Your-Own experience to a variety of locations with new permanent shops inside the flagship FAO Schwarz store at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City and inside four Great Wolf Lodge Resorts. Build-A-Bear® also plans to open 10 seasonal pop-up shops at Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s locations.
West Palm Beach, Fla. — USPA Global Licensing Inc. (USPAGL), the official licensing arm and national broadcaster of the United States Polo Association (USPA), notes that U.S. Polo Assn. has surpassed a major milestone by opening approximately 1,050 monobrand retail stores globally. Additionally, U.S. Polo Assn. has continued its aggressive international expansion efforts and is now represented in 166 countries worldwide while delivering strong double-digit growth in 2018.
Grand Rapids, Mich. — For the first time, Meijer has been named a SmartWay® Excellence Award winner in two categories simultaneously — as a shipper and a carrier — by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Meijer is the first retailer to be honored in both categories.