Safeway Names Corporate Senior Vice Presidents.Business Editors PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2002 As part of its ongoing efforts to streamline the company's supply chain, Safeway Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SWY SWY Safeway, Inc. (stock symbol) ) announced that the following executives have been promoted to Senior Vice President: Wayne Foxworthy, SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please) SVP Senior Vice President SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party) SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP Social Venture Partners SVP St Vincent de Paul , Merchandising Systems and Strategies Howard Befort, SVP, Supply Chain Mike Minasi, SVP, Marketing David Lee David Lee may refer to:
Jeff Ahlers, SVP, Perishables Wayne Foxworthy has been on assignment at the company's corporate office since 2000. Prior to that he was Vice President, Marketing Operations in Safeway's Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern Division. He began his career with the company in 1972 as a food clerk. Howard Befort also began his career at retail in the company's Denver division in 1971. After working his way through the retail he was promoted to several senior marketing positions including Vice President, Marketing Operations in the Eastern Division. Over the last 16 months he has been working on a marketing assignment at the corporate office. Mike Minasi has been Group Vice President, Marketing since December 2000. He joined Safeway in 1996 after working for 10 years at Toys `R Us for - the last six as its Director of International Advertising and Marketing. David Lee has served as Group Vice President, Marketing since December 2000 where he had overall responsibility for grocery, GM/HBC GM/HBC General Merchandise/Health and Beauty Care and pharmacy. Mr. Lee began his career at Vons in 1976 where he progressed through the retail and merchandising ranks including Director of Grocery Merchandising. He joined Safeway's corporate office as a Vice President, in May 2000. Jeff Ahlers has been Group Vice President, Perishables since March 2000, overseeing the bakery, deli, meat, seafood, produce and floral departments. He joined Safeway's Eastern Division in 1986 as its bakery merchandising manager and was named Director of Corporate Bakery three years later, and vice president in 1992. "All five individuals have proven themselves in their functional areas," said Steve Burd, Safeway's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. "The promotions reflect the pivotal corporate role each of them will play on the procurement and merchandising side of our business." Each will report directly to Rick Dreiling, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Manufacturing and Distribution. Safeway is a Fortune 50 company and one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. based on sales. The company operates 1,773 stores in the U.S. and Canada and had sales of $34 billion in 2001. Its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol SWY. |
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