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• Academy Sports + Outdoors, the sports, outdoor and lifestyle retailer, announced that it has hired Michelle J. Gloeckler, most recently EVP, Consumables, Health & Wellness at Walmart in the US, to be its new Executive Vice President, Chief Merchandising Officer and President.

At Academy, Gloeckler joins J.K. Symancyk, the former president of Meijer, who joined the company as CEO last year.
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