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Malaysian Reserve
20-05-2025
- Business
- Malaysian Reserve
Eyemart Express and "Military Makeover with Montel®" Join Forces to Help Arizona Veteran
Optical retailer featured helping Air Force veteran family see clearly in inspiring series, airing June 6 on Lifetime TV DALLAS, May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — National optical retailer Eyemart Express is reinforcing its commitment to recognizing veterans and military families with a partnership and appearance in the newest season of Military Makeover with Montel®. The mission-driven show on Lifetime TV premieres May 23, and will transform the home and life of Matt Kosto, an Air Force veteran living in Vail, Arizona. Eyemart Express is featured in an episode airing on June 6, in which it plays a pivotal role in improving the quality of life for Kosto and his wife, Virginia. Kosto, a veteran who served 20 years in the Air Force, experienced several life challenges after his military service. In 2021, he lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident and developed complications, which set back his recovery. In the meantime, his wife was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. In the June 6 episode, viewers will see how Eyemart Express surprised the Kosto family with eye health services, including comprehensive eye exams and outfitting them with new glasses to help them clearly see their home's makeover and enjoy the next chapter of their lives together. 'After all Matt has done for our country, it was an honor to support him and his family with the same level of care and commitment through our full-service eye care and same-day glasses,' says Katy Hanson, Eyemart Express Chief Marketing and Merchandising Officer. 'Working with Military Makeover with Montel® was an incredible opportunity to shed light on Matt and his story.' 'The Eyemart Express team gave the Kosto family more than just glasses; they gave them a fresh start on their eye health and a clearer view of life,' says Jack Schwartz, Executive Vice President of Programming for Military Makeover with Montel® and BrandStar Entertainment. 'Their partnership allows us to provide these life-changing experiences for deserving veterans like Matt.' Catch Eyemart Express on Military Makeover with Montel® on June 6, and learn more about the optical retailer's commitment to giving back to veterans and military families here. About Eyemart ExpressEyemart Express is more than just a local eye care provider—we are eye care experts embedded in the fabric of our local communities. Doctor-founded in 1990, we have a team that has grown alongside our customers and their families, bringing quality and accessible eye care services to each town we serve. Deep partnerships with local optometrists, on-site technicians, and in-house labs enable us to deliver over 80% of glasses in one hour in our 255 stores nationwide. We offer a seamless blend of the latest technology, comprehensive eye care, and genuine human connection to deliver glasses that are 'Made Today, Shipped Tomorrow' to any location in the U.S. Eyemart Express is a VSP Vision™ company, and ranks among the top optical retailers in the country with its family of brands: Vision 4 Less, Visionmart Express, and Eyewear Express. For more information about Eyemart Express, visit About Military Makeover with MontelMilitary Makeover with Montel®, A BrandStar Original, is America's leading branded reality TV show that offers hope and a helping hand here on the home front to members of our military and their loved ones. A veteran of both the Marine Corps and the Navy, talk show legend and military advocate Montel Williams, who creatively co-produces the show along with a colorful cast that seeks to transform the homes and lives of military families across the country. The cast includes co-hosts Art Edmonds and designer Jennifer Bertrand. This special series enlists caring companies of all sizes as well as non-profits and the local community. Military Makeover airs on Lifetime® and on the American Forces Network which serves American servicemen and women, Department of Defense and other U.S. government civilians and their families stationed at bases overseas, as well as U.S. Navy ships at sea. Help starts at home for veterans on Military Makeover. Join us as our makeover team engages to change the living situation – and the lives – of these deserving families. About BrandStarWe're matchmakers; connecting People to Brands to Do Life Better. BrandStar has unparalleled experience in creating customized educational content for brands with laser targeted extensive distribution through their multi-channel network ecosystem and methodology. From Original television programming on Lifetime, social media, digital marketing, to media management and PR; BrandStar helps brands connect with the right consumer, at the right time, with the right message, through all the right channels.
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Kohl's fires CEO Ashley Buchanan over conflict violations
American omnichannel retailer Kohl's has appointed Michael Bender to the role of interim CEO, effective immediately following the board's resolution to dismiss Ashley Buchanan with cause. The termination was a result of findings from an external legal review, supervised by the board's Audit Committee, which revealed that Buchanan had breached company policies. He was found to have directed the company towards engaging in vendor transactions tainted by undisclosed conflicts of interest — a breach deemed sufficient cause for dismissal. Buchanan's discharge is not connected to any issues regarding Kohl's operational performance, financial reporting or results. No other personnel were involved in these infractions. As stipulated by his employment agreement, Buchanan has been removed from his position on the board and will no longer be considered for re-election as a director at the forthcoming 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The board also noted that it is pursuing a permanent replacement for the CEO position and will engage a search company to support this endeavour. Bender has been a member of the company's board since July 2019 and became chair in May 2024. He previously served at Eyemart Express, Walmart, Cardinal Health, Victoria's Secret under L Brands, and PepsiCo. Kohl's has also provided preliminary insights into its expected financial outcomes for the first quarter of 2025. It anticipates that comparable sales will experience a decline between 4.3% and 4% to around $40m to $45m. It expects diluted earnings per share to range from a loss of $0.24 to a loss of $0.20. Kohl's has also paused its partnership with Amazon regarding return services at specific locations as part of an exploratory internal test. This pilot programme affects stores in Leominster, Eau Claire and Washington. The chain has more than 1,100 stores across 49 states in the US. "Kohl's fires CEO Ashley Buchanan over conflict violations " was originally created and published by Retail Insight Network, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Kohl's fires CEO Ashley Buchanan for conflicts of interest. He was hired in January
Kohl's Corp. has fired CEO Ashley Buchanan after just four months on the job − the latest in a series of negative developments for one of Wisconsin's largest companies. Buchanan was fired after he violated company policies by directing Kohl's "to engage in vendor transactions that involved undisclosed conflicts of interest," the Menomonee Falls-based department store operator announced on May 1. "Mr. Buchanan's termination is unrelated to the Company's performance, financial reporting, results of operations and did not involve any other Company personnel," the statement said. Kohl's board of directors chair Michael Bender has been named interim CEO while the company conducts a search to replace Buchanan. With a base salary and stock options, Buchanan had a total compensation package worth more than $20 million, making him one of the highest paid Wisconsin executives. That was significantly higher than the compensation for his predecessor, Tom Kingsbury. Kohl's on March 11 reported a 9.4% sales decline, and a 74.2% profit decline, during the pivotal fourth quarter of 2024 that includes the holiday shopping season. Buchanan took over as CEO on Jan. 15. He was the company's third leader in four years — at a time of store closings, declining sales and a stock price had fallen by 50% since early 2024. Before being named Kohl's CEO, Buchanan spent four years as the leader of crafts retailer Michael's Co. − where he struck a deal to sell the company to private equity investors. Bender, Buchanan's interim successor, served as president and CEO of optical retailer Eyemart Express from 2018 to 2022. Prior to joining Eyemart Express, Bender held executive positions at Walmart Inc. He's served as a Kohl's director since 2019 and was named board chair in May 2024. Bender will remain on the board but will step down from certain board committees while serving as interim CEO. A new board chair will be announced "in due course," the company said. 'The Board has full confidence in Michael to serve our customers and associates as Interim CEO and deliver on our commitments to our shareholders,' said John Schlifske, chair of the board's Nominating and ESG Committee, in a statement. Kohl's is one of Wisconsin's largest companies, ranking 235th of companies nationwide on the 2024 Fortune 500. It has roughly 4,000 Milwaukee-area corporate employees and thousands of other workers around the state. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Kohl's fires CEO Ashley Buchanan after finding conflicts of interest Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Today is our fourth birthday. Here's how your support of our work informs all of Idaho.
The Idaho Capital Sun staff at the Idaho Capitol Building in Boise. From left to right are reporter Mia Maldonado, editor-in-chief Christina Lords, reporter Kyle Pfannenstiel and senior reporter Clark Corbin. (Pat Sutphin for the Idaho Capital Sun) The first conversation I had with Andrea Verykoukis, I was sitting in my car in the parking lot of a Boise Eyemart Express with my cellphone on speakerphone on a cloudy day in late January 2021. I had just gotten out of an eye appointment, having picked out a new set of blue, thick-rimmed glasses. That's because, two days before, I had just been fired from the Idaho Statesman and needed to renew my prescription before I lost my health insurance. (If you don't know that story, maybe I'll tell it to you over a beer someday; if you do, know I am still a fierce Excel advocate and an advocate for making sure our reporters have the tools they need to do their jobs.) Andrea, along with Chris Fitzsimon and a host of other talented journalists, had been hard at work launching or partnering with nonprofit news organizations focused on state politics and policy in all 50 states through States Newsroom, now the Idaho Capital Sun's parent nonprofit and the reason our outlet exists. I have to be honest here. After the firing, and after 12 years of journalism — 11 of them at newspapers in Idaho — I wanted out. I was looking at master's programs to go be the librarian my mom always thought I should be and applying to public relations jobs I thought might fit. But Andrea asked one question: What is going under covered and under reported in Idaho? And then she went quiet. I think I rambled on for about 30 straight minutes about how public education has been chronically underfunded and our educators have been demoralized here, about how the shortages our health care workforce we faced even before COVID were in dire straights now, about how wildfire and mismanagement of federal public lands was threatening the places I grew up visiting, about how the Idaho Legislature every year comes with legislation to make it harder for Idahoans to cast a ballot or run a citizens initiative in our elections. And I'll never forget what Andrea said: 'Well. It sure seems like you have more stories in you to tell. What do you think about launching a nonprofit focused on state politics in Idaho through States Newsroom?' Then she explained that as a nonprofit news organization, States Newsroom allows any other media outlet to pick up our work — for free — with proper credit and attribution. I thought of all the times sitting around the conference room at my first reporting gig covering local government and crime at the Moscow-Pullman Daily News and praying that larger news organizations could report on some of the tips and stories that we just couldn't get to with our small, young staff. Of all the times I had to say no to stories worth pursuing at the Post Register in Idaho Falls as I stumbled my way through my first legislative session in 2013 because there just weren't enough reporters to get them all done. And of all the times at the Idaho Press when I was assistant editor where we lost good, young reporters that we had spent years building up their reporting chops, figuring out complex local government systems and backstories, just to see them forced to take a PR job because journalism wasn't paying their bills. If we could help other Idaho newsrooms — and by extension, their Idaho readers — by providing in-depth coverage of the Statehouse, maybe, I thought, we could make an impact. I took a week to talk myself out of it. I dove alone to Balanced Rock in Twin Falls County to explore somewhere I had never been in Idaho, to hike, to watch Salmon Falls Creek sweep by me, to see our farm fields laid out as far as the eye could see, to think. It was there I decided there was some journalism still left in me, and I was compelled to try. I thought for sure we'd launch the Idaho Capital Sun, it wouldn't work, and in a year say, well, we tried. But that's not what happened. While Idaho newsrooms are very competitive and want to be first, right and contextual, they also understand Idahoans have a right to know how their tax dollars are being spent, and who is making the decisions that affects their daily lives and their futures. The very first newsroom to pick up one of our stories, on the first day we launched, March 31, 2021 — four years ago today? The Idaho Statesman. But it certainly wasn't the last. To States Newsroom, the measure of our success isn't tallied by click quotas for reporters or page view website traffic. It's how many of our stories are good enough and helpful enough to be picked up by other newsrooms, so we track those metrics instead. Just this month, the Idaho Capital Sun's stories were picked up online by other news outlets 240 times, largely in Idaho but some also nationwide. And 62 of our stories this month have made it into print. And that's just what we can monitor and categorize, likely a huge undercount of just how far our work travels. Our work is picked up everywhere by the fine folks at the the weekly Sandpoint Reader to my hometown TV news station KPVI in Pocatello. By the Rexburg Standard Journal, by the ever-expanding BoiseDev online, by the Twin Falls Times-News and by another newspaper I called home for four years, the Idaho Press in Nampa. The Idaho Capital Free Press picks up our work in Grangeville, and so does the News-Examiner for their readers in Bear Lake and Caribou counties. Our work traveled across the country this month in publications like USA Today; the Adirondack Daily Enterprise in Saranac Lake, New York; Spokane Public Radio; and the Fox 26 TV station in Medford, Oregon. And we return the favor. At the bottom of every one of our newsletters, the Sunrise, which you can sign up for online for free, I include a collection of links to the work of other Idaho news outlets the produce every day. I think a lot about our state's news ecosystem, and we aim to bring to the forefront the hard work, under tough economic and political circumstances, that reporters are providing to the Gem State and her residents. As I mentioned before, the Idaho Capital Sun is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so donations from readers like you are what keep our lights on. It's what keeps not only our readers informed at but it also keeps the tens of thousands of readers of other hardworking Idaho news organizations informed, too. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE I never thought we'd last a year. Now, among the most chaotic and challenging news cycle and political climates I have ever faced in the 16 years I've been a professional journalist, I'm reminded every day just how essential our role is to meeting this moment. Because we have reporters originally born and raised here or who have lived here for decades, I've never felt more capable of reflecting the things Idahoans experience and want to know about in our work. I've never felt more 'sure in my skis,' as they say, never been more confident in our ability to make change and help people understand their world around them. If you've ever sent a note of encouragement or supported us financially over the last four years, through donations large or small, one-time or recurring, thank you for helping us grow and thrive. You are the reason we are celebrating our fourth anniversary today. If you're new to the Idaho Capital Sun and our work, welcome. We hope you find value in what we do here. And especially to our hard working reporting staff, Mia Maldonado, Kyle Pfannenstiel and Clark Corbin, our senior reporter who has been with us since the day we launched, thank you for waking up every day and fearlessly heading into spaces to shine the light of truth. I'm the luckiest editor in Idaho to work with people like you. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
