Elected to the FMI Board of Directors are Mark Batenic, chairman, president and CEO, IGA Inc., Chicago, IL; Rudy Dory, owner, Rudy’s Markets, Inc., Bend, OR; Jerry Garland, president and CEO, Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc., Kansas City, KS; David Hepfinger, president and CEO, Weis Markets, Inc., Sunbury, PA; and Dean Peterson, president and CEO, Harmon City, Inc., West Valley City, UT.
Richard “Ric” N. Jurgens, chairman, CEO and president of Hy-Vee, Inc., West Des Moines, IA was elected chairman of the FMI Board; and Steven C. Smith, president and CEO of K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc., d/b/a Food City, Abingdon, VA, is the immediate past chairman of the FMI board.
Elected as FMI vice chairmen to the board are Gregory Calhoun, president and CEO of Calhoun Food Markets, Inc., Montgomery, AL, and will serve as chairman of the public affairs committee; William Coyne, president and CEO of Raley’s Family of Fine Stores, Sacramento, CA, and will serve as chairman of the finance committee; Ed Crenshaw, chief executive officer of Publix Super Markets, Inc., Lakeland, FL, and will serve as chairman of industry relations committee; and Dave Skogen, owner and chairman of the board of Festival Foods, Onalaska, WI, and will serve as chairman of the member services committee.
Food Marketing Institute (FMI) conducts programs in public affairs, food safety, research, education and industry relations on behalf of its nearly 1,250 food retail and wholesale member companies in the United States and around the world. FMI’s U.S. members operate more than 25,000 retail food stores and almost 22,000 pharmacies with a combined annual sales volume of nearly $650 billion. FMI’s retail membership is composed of large multi-store chains, regional firms and independent operators. Its international membership includes 126 companies from more than 65 countries. FMI’s nearly 330 associate members include the supplier partners of its retail and wholesale members.
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