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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2022
Bed Bath & Beyond's leaders are mourning the decease of the company's main fiscal serviceman Gustavo Arnal.
The enforcement died astatine the property of 52 connected Sept. 2, the enactment has confirmed.
New York's Office of the Deputy Commissioner—the nationalist accusation bureau for the New York City Police Department—told NBC News constabulary recovered an "unconscious and unresponsive 52-year-old man" successful downtown Manhattan aft responding to a 911 telephone astatine astir 12:30 p.m. connected Sept. 2. The bureau said the antheral "appeared to endure from injuries indicative from a autumn from an elevated position." According to CNBC, citing police, Arnal fell from a building.
The Office of the Deputy Commissioner said exigency aesculapian services pronounced him deceased connected the scene.
The idiosyncratic was identified arsenic Arnal. The New York City aesculapian examiner's bureau told CNBC Arnal died from aggregate blunt trauma injuries and that he took his ain life.
In a Sept. 4 release, Bed Bath & Beyond noted the full enactment is "profoundly saddened by this shocking loss."
"I privation to widen our sincerest condolences to Gustavo's family," Harriet Edelman, Independent Chair of the Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Board of Directors said successful the release. "Gustavo volition beryllium remembered by each helium worked with for his leadership, endowment and stewardship of our Company. I americium arrogant to person been his colleague, and helium volition beryllium genuinely missed by each of america at Bed Bath & Beyond and everyone who had the pleasance of knowing him. Our absorption is connected supporting his household and his squad and our thoughts are with them during this bittersweet and hard time. Please articulation america successful respecting the family's privacy."
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Arnal joined Bed Bath & Beyond successful May 2020 aft antecedently moving astatine Avon, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and Procter & Gamble.
"At Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., Mr. Arnal was instrumental successful guiding the enactment passim the coronavirus pandemic, transforming the Company's fiscal instauration and gathering a beardown and talented team," the company's merchandise said. "He was besides an esteemed workfellow successful the fiscal community."
Bed Bath & Beyond has been facing challenges. On Aug. 31, the institution announced the closure of 150 of its stores and revealed it was reducing its workforce by 20 percent.
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