Clint Engel
\nBradley to handle both U.S., Canadian stores<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Vicki Bradley is taking on the role of vice president of U.S. stores in addition to her duties as president of Canadian operations for The Bombay Co.<\/p>\n
She replaces Patsy Holmes, who will leave the specialty retailer Friday.<\/p>\n
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Bradley has been president of Bombay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Canadian operations since October 1999. Before joining the Top 100 company, she was vice president of sales and operations for United Kingdom-based retailer Marks & Spencer and spent a number of years with\u00c2\u00a0 Woolworth\/Venator\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Northern Group division in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n
Holmes, who had been with the company for seven years and has served as regional director of stores before becoming vice president of stores, referred questions to Chief Financial Officer Elaine Crowley, who couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be reached for comment.
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\nBradley will report to James Carreker, chairman and CEO.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We look forward to being able to leverage Vicki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strong leadership skills here in the United States,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Carreker, who also plans to leave the company later this year. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Her broad-based experience and effectiveness has generated very successful results in Canada.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Carreker thanked Holmes and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we wish her well in her future endeavors.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Bombay, which sells home furnishings and gifts at 486 stores as well as through specialty catalogs and online, has been struggling recently. It posted a fiscal fourth quarter loss of $25.1 million \u00e2\u20ac\u201d mainly because of an accounting change \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and a 4.3% decrease in same-store sales.<\/p>\n
As part of a multi-phased turnaround strategy, the retailer plans to close a net 33 to 38 stores this year while continuing to migrate to more successful off-mall locations. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also testing new merchandise and merchandising techniques including a bath category and smaller, but more frequent product introductions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Clint Engel Bradley to handle both U.S., Canadian stores FORT WORTH, Texas \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Vicki Bradley is taking on the role of vice president of U.S. stores in addition to her duties as president of Canadian operations for The Bombay Co. She replaces Patsy Holmes, who will leave the specialty retailer Friday. Bradley has been president […]<\/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-422","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\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}