Kohl’s Corp. responded to the nomination of ten directors for election to the retailers’ Board of Directors by Activist investor group Macellum Advisors by noting that its Board now includes three independent directors that joined as part of a settlement with Macellum and other shareholders in April 2021.

Activist investor group Macellum Advisors GP LLC has named the slate of 10 board members that it will nominate at Kohl’s Corp.’s next investor day, scheduled for March 7.

S&P Global Ratings upgraded its debt ratings on Academy Sports + Outdoors, Inc. as the sporting goods chain “continues to post strong gains in sales and EBITDA resulting in better leverage.”

S&P Global Ratings raised its debt ratings on Amer Sports on its expectations that the sporting goods giant would report a “resilient” operating performance in 2021 with estimated €2.5 billion revenue, up 7 percent to 8 percent above pre-pandemic levels.

Imports at the nation’s congested container ports are expected to grow modestly during the first half of 2022, but continued high volume will keep up the pressure that built as the economy bounced back from the pandemic last year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation.