{"id":778472,"date":"2023-08-16T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/costco-wholesale-corporation-announces-new-board-member\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T23:25:08","slug":"costco-wholesale-corporation-announces-new-board-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/costco-wholesale-corporation-announces-new-board-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco Wholesale Corporation Announces New Board Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mw_release\">\n<p align=\"justify\">ISSAQUAH, Wash., Aug.  16, 2023  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Costco Wholesale Corporation (\u201cCostco\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (Nasdaq: COST) today announced the election to its Board of Directors of Helena Buonanno Foulkes. Most recently, Ms. Foulkes was CEO of Hudson\u2019s Bay Company. Previously she spent 25 years at CVS Health, including as President of CVS Pharmacy and Executive Vice President of CVS Health. Ms. Foulkes is also a member of the boards of directors of Follett Higher Education, PM Pediatrics, Harry\u2019s Inc., and Skillsoft. She recently completed a term as President of Harvard University\u2019s Board of Overseers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Hamilton (Tony) James, Chairman of the Board, stated: \u201cWe are very pleased to welcome Helena as a member of our Board. She is widely recognized as a leading retail executive and advocate for education. She also brings substantial experience in healthcare and as a board member of prominent companies. We look forward to her contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Costco currently operates 858 warehouses, including 590 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 107 in Canada, 40 in Mexico, 32 in Japan, 29 in the United Kingdom, 18 in Korea, 15 in Australia, 14 in Taiwan, four each in China and Spain, two in France, and one each in Iceland, New Zealand and Sweden. Costco also operates e-commerce sites in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Mexico, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia.<\/p>\n<p align=\"start\">\n        <strong>CONTACTS: Costco Wholesale Corporation <\/strong><br \/>\n        <br \/> Richard Galanti, 425\/313-8203 <br \/> David Sherwood, 425\/313-8239 <br \/> Josh Dahmen, 425\/313-8254<\/p>\n<p \/>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"__GNW8366DE3E__IMG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/newsroom\/ti?nf=ODg5NjIxMSM1NzYwNTE2IzIwMDg1OTA=\" \/><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/media\/YmIyNTBlOTYtMmRkMC00NjAwLWI1YWEtMzZiMjNhN2VhMGIwLTEwMjAxNjM=\/tiny\/Costco-Wholesale-Corporation.png\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"mw_contactinfo\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSAQUAH, Wash., Aug. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Costco Wholesale Corporation (\u201cCostco\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (Nasdaq: COST) today announced the election to its Board of Directors of Helena Buonanno Foulkes. Most recently, Ms. Foulkes was CEO of Hudson\u2019s Bay Company. Previously she spent 25 years at CVS Health, including as President of CVS Pharmacy and Executive Vice President of CVS Health. Ms. Foulkes is also a member of the boards of directors of Follett Higher Education, PM Pediatrics, Harry\u2019s Inc., and Skillsoft. She recently completed a term as President of Harvard University\u2019s Board of Overseers. Hamilton (Tony) James, Chairman of the Board, stated: \u201cWe are very pleased to welcome Helena as a member of our Board. She is widely recognized &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/costco-wholesale-corporation-announces-new-board-member\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Costco Wholesale Corporation Announces New Board Member&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Costco Wholesale Corporation Announces New Board Member - Market Newsdesk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/costco-wholesale-corporation-announces-new-board-member\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Costco Wholesale Corporation Announces New Board Member - Market Newsdesk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISSAQUAH, Wash., Aug. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Costco Wholesale Corporation (\u201cCostco\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (Nasdaq: COST) today announced the election to its Board of Directors of Helena Buonanno Foulkes. 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