BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. said Monday it has appointed retail industry veteran Christopher Baldwin as chief operating officer, effective Sept. 8. Baldwin was most recently chief executive of Hess Retail Corporation, an operator of more than 1,300 fuel and convenience stores on the East Coast before it was sold to Marathon Petroleum Corp. He has worked stints at Kraft Foods, the Hershey Co. and Procter & Gamble. BJ’s is jointly owned by private-equity firms Leonard Green & Partners, CVC Capital Parnters and its management team.
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