CINCINNATI, Dec. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co.
(NYSE: KR) today announced that Karen M.
Hoguet has been elected to the company's board of
directors.
Ms. Hoguet served as the chief financial officer of Macy's, Inc.
from October 1997 until July 2018. She then served as a strategic advisor
to the CEO until her retirement earlier this year. Ms. Hoguet
currently serves on the Nielsen Holdings plc board and previously
served on the boards of Chubb and Cincinnati Bell.
"We are pleased to welcome Karen to Kroger," said Rodney McMullen, Kroger's chairman and CEO. "She
brings more than 35 years of retail and commercial experience to
our board. Karen's long tenure as a senior executive of a
publicly-traded retail company provides strategy, transformation,
financial, audit and risk oversight experience that will benefit
our business and our shareholders."
Ms. Hoguet is a graduate of Brown
University, receiving a Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics. She
earned an MBA from Harvard Business
School. Ms. Hoguet was recognized by the Wall Street
Journal as the nation's top CFO in 2014. She gives back to the
Cincinnati community through her
service as a member of the UC Health and Hebrew Union College boards.
Ms. Hoguet is elected to serve until Kroger's annual meeting of
shareholders in June 2020. At that
time, she will stand for election by the shareholders.
About Kroger
At The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), we are
Fresh for Everyone™ and dedicated to our Purpose: To Feed the
Human Spirit®. We are, across our family of companies, nearly half
a million associates who serve over 11 million customers daily
through a seamless shopping experience under a variety
of banner names. We are committed to creating
#ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities by 2025. To learn more about us,
visit our newsroom and investor relations site.
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