Michael Hatherill Promoted to Group Publisher of CSNews Group

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Michael Hatherill, publisher of Stagnito Media's Convenience Store News, Convenience Store News for the Single Store Owner and Hispanic Retail 360 magazines, has been promoted to Group Publisher for those media brands. In the last six years serving as its publisher, Hatherill has been instrumental in increasing the visibility of the CSNews brands among retailers and suppliers in the convenience store market segment.

As a veteran publishing executive who has served in management and sales capacities on several consumer and trade magazines, Hatherill is also conference director for the annual Hispanic Retail 360 Summit, the only conference designed to help retailers and marketers effectively target, segment and execute merchandising and marketing plans to Hispanic shoppers.

Prior to joining CSNews in 2006, Hatherill spent 10 years in the Hispanic media space where he was the launch publisher of Adweek's Marketing y Medios magazine, an English-language advertising and marketing-focused magazine aimed at Hispanic marketers. Prior to that, he was vice president of sales for Hispanic Business magazine.

In other recent executive moves at the CSNews group, Tony Vecchie was promoted from Midwest Sales Manager to Associate Publisher, and Linda Lisanti was promoted from Senior Editor of CSNews and Executive Editor of CSNews for the Single Store Owner to Executive Editor for all of the CSNews brands.

Stagnito Media comprises six leading business media brands: Convenience Store News, Convenience Store News for the Single Store Owner, Progressive Grocer, Progressive Grocer's Store Brands, The Gourmet Retailer and Hispanic Retail 360. These brands service the business-to-business information needs of the convenience, grocery and specialty food/kitchenware markets through an integrated portfolio of magazines, websites, digital newsletters, conferences and custom media.