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The Kroger Co. has made a series of executive appointments in retail operations, merchandising and supply chain and announced several divisional promotions, including new Fred Meyer and King Soopers presidents.
Kroger said Tuesday that it has promoted Mary Ellen Adcock to senior vice president of retail operations and Joe Grieshaber to senior vice president of merchandising. Grieshaber takes over from Robert Clark, who has been named senior vice president of supply chain, manufacturing and sourcing. All three appointments are effective May 1.
Adcock has served as group vice president of retail operations since 2016. Before that, she had been promoted to vice president of operations for the Columbus (Ohio) division in 2015 after having joined the division the year before as its vice president of merchandising. In 2012, Adcock was named vice president of natural foods merchandising, where she led the launch of Kroger’s Simple Truth brand.
"Mary Ellen quickly established herself as a key contributor to both the sales and operations organization as well as to the senior executive team,” Mike Donnelly, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Kroger, said in a statement. “She...