{"id":8704,"date":"2022-07-06T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T18:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningexpress.com\/franchise\/?p=8704"},"modified":"2022-07-06T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T18:58:58","slug":"learning-express-toys-gifts-names-lauren-derse-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/learning-express-toys-gifts-names-lauren-derse-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Express Toys &#038; Gifts Names Lauren Derse CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Toy Book<\/strong> &#8211; Learning Express founder Sharon DiMinico marked the 35th anniversary of the company \u2014 the leading franchisor of specialty toy stores in the U.S. \u2014 by passing the torch to her daughter, Lauren Derse, who takes on the role of CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLauren brings with her a Harvard Business School degree but more importantly, she has had in-store exposure for over six years and multi-store ownership for four years,\u201d DiMinico says. \u201cNothing replaces first-hand experience. You cannot lead a company like ours without knowing the ins and outs of our core business. Lauren will be an outstanding leader, and she has my full trust and confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/toybook.com\/learning-express-toys-gifts-names-lauren-derse-ceo\/\">https:\/\/toybook.com\/learning-express-toys-gifts-names-lauren-derse-ceo\/<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toy Book &#8211; Learning Express founder Sharon DiMinico marked the 35th anniversary of the company \u2014 the leading franchisor of specialty toy stores in the U.S. \u2014 by passing the torch to her daughter, Lauren Derse, who takes on the role of CEO. \u201cLauren brings with her a Harvard Business School degree but more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,11,13],"tags":[22,26,29,34,43,45],"class_list":["post-8704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-convention","category-franchise-expos","category-franchise-news","category-retail","category-toy-industry","tag-franchise","tag-franchising","tag-learningexpresstoys","tag-retail","tag-toy","tag-toy-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pos.learningexpress.net\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}