Dick's Sporting Goods announced that Bill Dandy has joined the company as Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer.
Mr. Dandy joins Dick's with 20 years of retail experience, most recently as Senior Vice president – Marketing, for Jo-Ann stores, where he was a part of the executive team that successfully brought the company out of turnaround. His primary role at Jo-Ann's was in the Marketing organization where he led the alignment of company strategies to consumer values. Mr. Dandy was also employed by Famous Footwear (a division of Brown Shoe Company) as its Senior Vice President – Retail Sales and Operations and Senior Vice President – Marketing and Advertising. During his tenure at Famous Footwear, he had the opportunity to lead marketing and advertising, visual merchandising, strategic planning and store operations for the 1,000 store Famous Footwear chain. He also served on the corporate operating committee for Brown Shoe Company.
Mr. Dandy also was with Michael's Stores as Vice President of Marketing and Advertising where he played an integral part in building Michael's into a national category killer. Prior to Michael's, Mr. Dandy held various marketing, merchandising and financial positions at Ames Department stores, Miller's Outpost and Mervyn's Department Stores.
“Bill's primary role here will be to build a best of class marketing organization while complementing our management team's retail experience, and we are excited to add someone with Bill's extensive experience to our senior management group,” said Bill Colombo, President and Chief Operating Officer of the company.
