ONSTEAD JOINS HAGGEN'S BOARD OF ADVISORS
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — R. Randall Onstead Jr. has joined the board of advisors at Haggen Inc. He has 27 years of experience in the retail food industry and is the former chairman, president and CEO of Randalls Food Markets, a $2.7 billion supermarket chain based in Houston. Most recently, he was president of Dominick's Finer Foods, based in Oak Brook, Ill. He also served on the board of directors of J.P. Morgan Chase Texas, the Baylor College of Medicine and the Onstead Foundation. Haggen is the largest independent grocer and the ninth-largest private company based in Washington.
FIVE FOOD LION VICE PRESIDENTS ASSUME NEW ROLES
SALISBURY, N.C. — Food Lion here said it has transitioned five vice presidents to other cross-functional leadership roles within the company. In operations, Scott Harrison, formerly vice president of retail operations in the company's Southern Division, has been named vice president of retail operations for the Central Division. Geoff Waldau has been named to succeed him as vice president of retail operations in the Southern Division. He was previously vice president of merchandising services. Lewis Campbell, formerly vice president, dry category, moves from that role to vice president of merchandising services. Robert Canipe, who previously served in marketing as vice president of business strategy, has been named vice president of dry category management. In human resources, Bonnie Moore has been named vice president of associate relations. She was previously vice president of human resources-organizational development.
AMEN RE-ELECTED AS CHAIRMAN OF UNIFIED WESTERN
LOS ANGELES — Lou Amen, president of Super A Foods here, has been elected chairman of Unified Western Grocers for the 13th time in 17 years. He held the post from 1990 until 1993, again from 1997 to 2004 and, after a one-year absence, from 2005 until the present. Also re-elected to Unified's board were Peter J. O'Neal, president of White Salmon Foods, Estacada, Ore., first vice chairman, and Richard L. Wright, president, Wright's Foodliner, Eugene, Ore., second vice chairman. Unified members also re-elected 10 other directors and voted two new members to the 15-member board: Oscar Gonzalez, chief operating officer of Northgate Gonzalez Markets, Anaheim, Calif., and John Najjar, president of Cardiff Seaside Market, Cardiff, Calif.
BJ'S WHOLESALE ELECTS ZARKIN PRESIDENT AND CEO
NATICK, Mass. — Herb Zarkin has been elected president and chief executive officer of BJ's Wholesale Club. He had served as interim CEO since November 2006 and will continue as chairman of the company's board of directors. Zarkin has served as a director since November 1996 and as chairman since 1997. From 1993 to 1997, he was president, CEO and a director at Waban Inc., which operated BJ's Wholesale Club as well as HomeBase, another warehouse merchandising business. Tom Shields, BJ's presiding director, said, “The board's decision is a vote of confidence in Herb's ability to lead the company. He has done an outstanding job as CEO in recent months, and we are confident that his continued leadership will benefit all BJ's stakeholders.”
ROBBINS LEAVES AS SAVE MART-ALBERTSONS DEAL CLOSES
MODESTO, Calif. — Save Mart Supermarkets here said that Donna Robbins, the former president of the Northern California division of Albertsons LLC, has decided to leave after Save Mart completed its acquisition of those stores. Steve Junqueiro, vice president of Save Mart operations, will coordinate the transition of the stores to Save Mart with oversight from Bob Spengler, president and chief operating officer, and Bob Piccinini, chairman and chief executive officer. As previously reported, Save Mart acquired 130 Albertsons stores in Northern California and northern Nevada, and will gradually convert them over the next nine months.
