Brookstone Names Toys"R"Us Exec as President/CEO

Brookstone will appoint senior retail executive Thomas M. Via as president and CEO, and as a member of its board of directors, effective Dec. 1. Steven H. Schwartz, who had been serving as interim CEO, will resume his role as chief merchandising officer. Via spent the past 12 years at Toys"R"Us, most recently as its senior vice president for Babies"R"Us in the U.S., where he was responsible for providing leadership for the company's juvenile product growth strategy and served on the Global Commercial Committee.