Food Lion Opens First Green Store … and More

HIRINGS/APPOINTMENTS

JCPenney Co. Inc. (Plano, Texas), a department store retailer, has elected Geraldine Laybourne to its board. Laybourne was most recently the co-founder, chairman and ceo of Oxygen Media.

Halco Lighting Technologies (Norcross, Ga.) has hired Jan McQuain as its national accounts manager.

STORE OPENINGS

Food Lion LLC (Salisbury, N.C.), a supermarket chain, has opened its first environmentally friendly grocery store. The store, in Columbia, S.C., is seeking Silver certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program.

Lowe’s Cos. Inc. (Mooresville, N.C.), a home-improvement retailer, has opened Energy Centers in 21 of its California stores. The centers provide products and services to customers interested in making their homes more energy-efficient.

American Apparel (Los Angeles) a clothing manufacturer and retailer, has added 1,350 square feet of space to its four-year-old store at Place du Marche St-Honore, Paris.

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Philips Electronics (Somerset, N.J.) is marking its 10th anniversary as the official lighting partner to the Times Square Ball in New York. In addition, Philips announced it has converted the companion Times Square Ball numerals for 2010 to all-LED technology.

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (Sunnyvale, Calif.), an LED manufacturer, has opened its second LED chip production plant, in Penang, Malaysia.

AWARDS

HOK (St. Louis), a global architectural firm, announced that senior vice president and western practice leader Joseph Pettipas has received the IIDA Leadership Award of Excellence from the Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario and the International Interior Design Association.