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.
