Pushing For Greater Female Market Share, Best Buy Promotes Exec

Best Buy announced late last week that it had hired a new executive aimed at jump-starting sales to female customers. Julie Gilbert, a seven-year company veteran and already the company’s head of retail training and leadership development, will be given the title of senior vice president, and the additional duty of boosting the company’s market share among women.

Gilbert will report to Tim Sheehan, the company’s senior vice president of customer experience creation.