Craig Jelinek
Craig Jelinek, president and chief executive officer of Costco Wholesale Corp., is maintaining the company’s financial momentum while boosting its expansion plans, industry observers told SN.
Jelinek, who keeps a low profile...
Mike Duke
Published reports in recent months have suggested that Mike Duke could be nearing the end of his run as chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores. While officials of the company have said they would not comment on such speculation, observers...
Danny Wegman continues to push the boundaries of what a supermarket can be.
Take wine and cheese, for example. The chief executive officer of Wegmans Food Markets made recent headlines when his company helped to fund a new program at Corne...
Pierre-Olivier Beckers
One of the longest tenures in food retail leadership is scheduled to wind down this year, as Pierre-Olivier Beckers, a 30-year veteran of Delhaize Group, announced his plans to relinquish his title as chief executive offi...
Dick Boer
Dick Boer believes in the course he’s set for Ahold.
The chief executive officer of the Dutch-based retailer in 2011 set a strategy he called “Reshaping Retail” that contemplated using Ahold’s local brands with its global size and...
Ed Crenshaw
Excitement has been building as Publix Super Markets prepares to enter its first new market in more than 10 years. And no one is looking forward to the occasion more than CEO Ed Crenshaw.
“Having experienced relatively slow grow...
David Dillon
“Aggressive growth plans” are not words that have been uttered by very many traditional supermarket operators in the last few years, but that is the way David Dillon, chairman and chief executive officer of Kroger Co., described hi...
“In evaluating the [loyalty-card] program, it comes down to a customer-facing decision, and the division leadership teams at Albertsons LLC felt eliminating the card in other divisions had been well-received by customers.&rdquo...
DETROIT — Whole Foods Market last week opened an inner-city store here that is a smaller unit than the chain’s norm, with lower prices and a larger selection of private-label items and frozen and prepackaged foods designed to appeal to budget...
The pending sale of Sweetbay to Bi-Lo Holdings represents the beginning of yet another tumultuous chapter for the grocery founded by an Italian fruit vendor in 1947. Following are highlights in the history of Sweetbay, known also as Kash n’ Ka...
