PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — DICK’S Sporting Products (NYSE: DKS) now declared it has appointed Bob Eddy, the Chairman & Chief Government Officer of BJ’s Wholesale Club, to the firm’s Board of Administrators.
“We are thrilled to welcome Bob to our Board at an interesting time for DICK’S,” claimed Ed Stack, Govt Chairman of DICK’S Sporting Products. “Bob’s decades of retail encounter will be invaluable as DICK’S expands our most recent store ideas, and as we carry on to uncover approaches to innovate and deliver the best achievable expertise for our athletes.”
“DICK’S is a genuine leader in its space, and I am delighted to sign up for the Board as the business is reimagining retail and thinking of new ways to interact with its athletes,” said Eddy. “DICK’S has a exceptional option to further condition the foreseeable future of both retail and athletics, and I glance ahead to doing work closely with the Board and the management workforce as they create price for their shareholders and athletes almost everywhere.”
Eddy has served as President and Main Executive Officer of BJ’s since April 2021. He was appointed Chairman in June 2023 and has served on the firm’s Board of Directors because 2021. Eddy first joined BJ’s in 2007 as Senior Vice President, Finance, was named Govt Vice President and Main Economical Officer in 2011 and became Govt Vice President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer in 2018.
Prior to joining BJ’s, Eddy worked with retail and consumer products and solutions businesses as a member of the audit and company advisory observe of PwC in Boston and San Francisco.
Eddy serves on the Board of Administrators and Government Committee of the National Retail Federation and the Board of Trustees of The Boston Kid’s Clinic. He is a previous member of the Board of Directors of Troon Golf. Eddy is also a member of the School Advisory Board for Babson College or university, his alma mater.
With Eddy’s appointment, the DICK’S Sporting Merchandise Board will extend to 12 directors.
About DICK’S Sporting Items, Inc.
DICK’S Sporting Products (NYSE: DKS) produces self esteem and exhilaration by inspiring, supporting and personally equipping all athletes to attain their goals. Started in 1948 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, the leading omnichannel retailer serves athletes and outside lovers in far more than 850 DICK’S Sporting Items, Golfing Galaxy, Community Lands, Moosejaw, Going Likely Gone! and Warehouse Sale outlets, on the net, and by the DICK’S mobile app. DICK’S also owns and operates DICK’S Household of Sport and Golfing Galaxy Overall performance Center, as properly as GameChanger, a youth sporting activities cellular system for stay streaming, scheduling, communications and scorekeeping.
Pushed by its belief that sports activities have the ability to alter life, DICK’S has been a longtime champion for youth athletics and, with each other with its Basis, has donated hundreds of thousands of bucks to guidance below-resourced teams and athletes as a result of the Sporting activities Make any difference software and other community-dependent initiatives. Supplemental facts about DICK’S enterprise, company offering, sustainability attempts and employment alternatives can be observed on dicks.com, traders.dicks.com, sportsmatter.org, dickssportinggoods.positions and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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