{"id":3293,"date":"2014-02-15T14:45:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T09:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/02\/15\/pier-1-wins-restraining-order-against-tjx\/"},"modified":"2014-02-15T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T09:15:26","slug":"pier-1-wins-restraining-order-against-tjx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/pier-1-wins-restraining-order-against-tjx\/","title":{"rendered":"Pier 1 wins restraining order against TJX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clears way for new CEO to join company<br \/>\nFORT WORTH, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Pier 1 Imports said it<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\n has obtained a temporary restraining order against TJX Cos. that clears the way for a former TJX executive to report to Pier 1 as its new president and CEO Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The order stops Framingham Mass.-based TJX from filing any judicial proceeding or lawsuit against Pier 1\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s incoming president and CEO, Alex Smith, other than making a claim for arbitration with the American Arbitration Assn.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth, Texas-based Pier 1 sought the move to end what it said was TJX\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interference in hiring Smith, who is replacing retiring Pier 1 CEO Marvin Girouard.<br \/>\nPier 1 said earlier that TJX was threatening legal action against Smith, suggesting in a press release that Smith had a non-compete agreement with his former employer. Pier 1 said the two companies aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t competitors.<\/p>\n<p>A TJX spokesperson said the company doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t comment on pending litigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clears way for new CEO to join company FORT WORTH, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Pier 1 Imports said it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}