Weatherill Named CEO at Brown & Cole Successor Company

ELLIOT ZWIEBACH

SEATTLE — The Markets LLC, successor company to Brown & Cole Stores here, has named Kevin Weatherill as president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Craig Cole, who is retiring after 22 years at the company's helm. Weatherill originally joined Brown & Cole in 1985 and achieved the title of chief operating officer before he left in 2000 to join Bornstein Seafoods, a Bellingham, Wash.-based seafood supplier, where he eventually became CEO. He opened his own business, Whatcom Falls Mini-Mart and Deli, but was asked by Craig Cole in 2006 to return as his planned successor. Since emerging from a Chapter 11 reorganization in late 2007, The Market operates 20 stores in Washington, Oregon and Montana — under the Food Pavilion, Cost Cutter, $ave-On-Food$, Red Apple and Food Depot banners. Once the largest shareholder and second-largest customer of Associated Grocers here, which is now part of Unified Grocers, Los Angeles, the company has switched its wholesaling business to Supervalu, Minneapolis. Besides Weatherill, other new executives include Clark Jordan, vice president, operations, formerly with AG; Michael Tyson, vice president, Center Store, also formerly with AG; and Sal LoGrande, vice president, perishables, formerly with Northwest Grocers here.

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