Shoe Pavilion Headquarters moves to valley.Shoe Pavilion Shoe Pavilion is an off-price footwear retailer based in Sherman Oaks, CA. It operates 108 stores throughout the Western and Southwestern areas of the United States. History The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Sherman Oaks, California. Inc., an off-price footwear retailer, has relocated its offices to Sherman Oaks as the company prepares for expansion in the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, area. The new location, which consolidates Shoe Pavilion's Burbank and Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern offices, currently employs about 35 workers. The bulk of its headquarters operation had been based in Pinole Pinole (pĭnōl`), city (1990 pop. 17,460), Contra Costa co., W Calif., on San Pablo Bay; inc. 1903. Primarily residential, it manufactures concrete and chemicals. in Northern California, but as the company prepares to open new stores in Southern California executives wanted to be closer to a large labor pool, air transport and a concentration of its stores. "A lot of our unit growth will be occurring in Southern California as far as new stores," said Neil Watanabe, executive vice president and CFO See Chief Financial Officer. of Shoe Pavilion, "and we wanted the benefits of having a richer pool of employees to draw on versus Northern California." Shoe Pavilion is preparing to open 15 or 20 stores in the Southern California area in 2006, said Watanabe. He declined to specify the locations at this time. "We're planning an aggressive growth plan for our stores over the next several years, so with that will come additional staffing to support our growth," Watanabe said. Most of the employees in Northern California did not relocate, and Shoe Pavilion has hired most of its staff from the Valley area, Watanabe added. Watanabe too joined the company with the move. A 25-year retail industry veteran, he was formerly CFO at Elizabeth Arden Elizabeth Arden (December 31, 1878 - October 19, 1966) was a Canadian businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States. Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, where she lived until she was twenty-four years old. Spas, Petsmart and other retailers. Shoe Pavilion currently operates about 40 stores in Southern California, 11 of them in the greater Valley area including locations in Burbank, Canoga Park, Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, and Thousand Oaks. It operates a total of about 84 stores in California, Washington, Oregon and Arizona. As the company has grown, it has become more important to provide vendors with easy access to the corporate headquarters, Watanabe said. Accessibility to Burbank Airport was another factor in the decision to relocate. |
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