MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu here said last week it has named William J. Bolton as corporate executive vice president and president and chief operating officer for retail food companies. He succeeds Larry Anderson, who left Supervalu earlier this year. Bolton, 51, was chairman and chief executive officer of Bruno's, Birmingham, Ala.
il food operations accounted for 29% of its 1996 sales, or about $4.8 billion of its $16.6 billion volume. It includes Cub Food Stores, Stillwater, Minn.; Shop 'n Save Warehouse Foods, Kirkwood, Mo.; bigg's, Cincinatti; Laneco, Lower Nazareth Township, Pa.; Scott's Food Stores, Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Hornbachers, Fargo., N.D.