Toronto — Sears Canada Inc.’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, Klaudio Leshnjani, will be leaving the company at the end of fiscal 2015. Leshnjani plans to spend more time with his family.
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Westborough, Mass. — BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc.’s president and chief operating officer, Christopher J. Baldwin, has been named president and chief executive officer, succeeding Laura J. Sen, who is assuming the role of non-executive chairman. The appointment is effective February 1, 2016.
Fremont, Calif. — The 100th EVgo Freedom Station in California is now open and is the nation’s largest publicly-available multi-standard fast charging site. Located in the hottest electric vehicle (EV) adoption area of the country, the Lucky Fremont location features four 50kW DC Fast Chargers equipped with CHAdeMO and DC Fast Combo; the station is also pre-wired for as many as four more chargers, which can be added in just days as demand requires.
Houston — Mattress Firm Holding Corp., the nation’s largest specialty mattress retailer, has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding equity interests in HMK Mattress Holdings LLC, the holding company of Sleepy’s, for $780 million. Sleepy’s is the nation’s second largest specialty mattress retailer, with more than 1,050 stores in 17 states in the Northeast, New England the Mid-Atlantic and Illinois.