San Diego — Petco’s chairman and CEO, Jim Myers, a 26-year company veteran and CEO since 2004, will be retiring. As part of Petco’s long term succession plan, the company’s president and chief merchant, Brad Weston, who joined Petco in 2011, will succeed Myers as CEO as of February 1, 2017.
Myers joined Petco in 1990 and has been a key leader in building and growing the company from a regional player into a leading national pet specialty retail chain with more than 1,470 Petco and Unleashed by Petco stores in the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico.
“I am tremendously proud of the entire Petco team and all we’ve accomplished during the last 26 years,” says Myers. “We’ve assembled one of the strongest leadership teams in the industry and together we’ve built a great brand and a very clear strategy that informs our long term objectives and priorities.”
Myers continues, “There is no one better than Brad to lead Petco. I look forward to serving the company in an advisory capacity and as a board member going forward.”
As president and chief merchant, Weston has been responsible for driving the company’s overall business strategy, operations and merchandising activities, as well as marketing and e-commerce. Prior to joining Petco, he held senior leadership roles at Dick’s Sporting Goods, May Merchandising Company and Robinsons-May.
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SOURCE: Petco