The recommerce retailer hired Philip Chan as managing director who has a background as general manager for Google Hong Kong and vice president of Yahoo Asia, as well as serving in roles at Cisco and Motorola.

Employers take note: there’s a new protected class in town and its members might have weed on them.

The Union-based retailer will try to reverse years of lackluster sales by marketing to a younger crowd of shoppers. Starting this year it will unveil eight new brands, six of them in the first half of 2021.

Five Leases announced in Bordentown, Cranbury, Delran, Edison, and Lawrence Township and it donated more than $1.4 million to organizations combating food insecurity.

The company, run by No. 8 on Forbes Self-Made Women list Thai Lee, launched consultative subsidiary Stratascale, struck new partnerships, and reportedly kept pace with the deluge of customer orders flowing through its two Integration Centers in the past year.

Flemington Furs was a case study in brilliant marketing and had a more iconic advertising campaign than Disney a century ago, according to Flemington Community Partnership Executive Director Robin Lapidus. Out-of-state dollars flowed like water onto the borough’s Main Street. Decades later, Liberty Village, the nation’s first open-air outlet mall, would bring tourists into town by the busload.

Retailers are working together to identify, test and scale design solutions to make a more consumer-friendly, sustainable product.

the cloud player will provide real-time financial, supply chain and merchandising solutions, replacing the systems the Union-based home goods retailer has used for years and providing the company with new data, insights and planning capabilities.

Mall operator Simon Property Group and its associated landlords have filed objections against the Mahwah-based mall retailer's Chapter 11 plan of reorganization after Ascena's purchaser, private equity Sycamore Partners, laid out its intentions to close more stores than originally agreed upon.

Anne Russell, the company's former vice president of merchandising, has been appointed as executive vice president of branding and merchandising; and Donna Bouchard, the company's former vice president of advertising and community relations, has been appointed as senior vice president of specialty business.

Jonathan Bottomley will focus on values and revenue for the Summit-based Luxury linens company.