MINNEAPOLIS — Target Corp. executive vice president and chief marketing officer Jeff Jones is leaving the company, effective September 9, the company announced Tuesday morning. Jones, who has served as Target’s top marketer since 2012, will become the president of ride sharing at Uber, with responsibility for the company’s global operations, marketing and customer support.
NEW YORK — Racher Press Inc., the publisher of Mass Market Retailers and Chain Drug Review, presented its 2015 Retailer of the Year awards last evening in New York City. The annual event drew retailer and supplier executives from across the food, drug and mass channel to a ballroom at the new headquarters of Time
MINNEAPOLIS — Jeff Jones, chief marketing officer at Target Corp., is MMR’s Marketer of the Year for 2015. Jones was recruited in 2012 to help steer the transition from the big-box mentality that distinguished Target’s first half-century toward a position of prominence in a consumer-centric era dominated by digitized data, information technology and social media.