Dan Kourkoumelis Elected A&P Director; Former QFC President Brings Operations, Customer Service Insight to Company's Customer-Focused Great Renewal Effort.Business Editors MONTVALE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2000 The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. (A&P) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GAP) announced today that Dan Kourkoumelis has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Kourkoumelis is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Quality Food Centers, Inc. (QFC QFC Quality Food Centers QFC Queueing Flow Control QFC Quality Feedback Card QFC Quality Fulfillment Committee (PostEurop) QFC Quantum Flow Control ), Seattle-based operator of 85 supermarkets, primarily in the state of Washington. He retired from QFC, a subsidiary of The Kroger Co., in 1998, after a 31-year career that began at store level and progressed through various executive assignments, culminating in the Chief Executive post. He also served on the QFC Board of Directors from 1991 through 1998. A former director of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI FMI Fondo Monetario Internacional (Spanish: International Monetary Fund) FMI Fonds Monétaire International FMI For More Information FMI Food Marketing Institute FMI Fundo Monetário Internacional ), Mr. Kourkoumelis was named Food Industry Executive of the Year by the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission in 1997. Christian Haub, President and Chief Executive Officer of A&P, said "Our management team looks forward to working with Mr. Kourkoumelis. Under his leadership, QFC built an outstanding reputation with consumers, and throughout our industry, for its high level of customer service and quality merchandising merchandising Element of marketing concerned especially with the sale of goods and services to customers. One aspect of merchandising is advertising, which aims to capture the interest of the segment of the population most likely to buy the product. . His insight and experience will greatly benefit our Company, as we move forward in Phase II of Project Great Renewal, toward our goal of becoming the Supermarket of Choice." |
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