SUPERVALU Names Anne Dament as Its Senior Vice President of Retail, Merchandising and Marketing
January 18 2017 - 6:30AM
Business Wire
SUPERVALU INC. (NYSE:SVU) today announced that Anne
Dament has been named Senior Vice President
of Retail, Merchandising and Marketing effective immediately.
In this role, Dament will lead the Company's retail banner
operations, oversee the retail merchandising and marketing
functions, and report to Mark Gross, SUPERVALU’s President and
Chief Executive Officer.
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SUPERVALU names Anne Dament as its Senior
Vice President of Retail, Merchandising and Marketing. (Photo:
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Dament, a 25-year retail veteran who began her career at
SUPERVALU, most recently served as Senior Vice President of
Merchandising for Target Corporation where she oversaw
food merchandising for its grocery business, including
perishables, non-perishables, food service and private label
brands.
"I’m thrilled that Anne is joining our leadership
team,” said Mark Gross. “As we focus on improving our
retail store performance, Anne's experience across varied
retail and merchandising disciplines should prove
extremely beneficial. Anne is a dynamic, collaborative leader
with great experience building and leading high performing
teams through transformation and change.”
“Returning to SUPERVALU provides a great opportunity to
collaborate with grocery veterans I’ve respected throughout my
career. Together, I’m looking forward to bringing a renewed energy
to our retail banners,” said Dament.
Prior to joining Target, Dament spent seven years
in senior level positions at PetSmart, including
roles as Vice President of Merchandising Solutions and Vice
President of Services. Dament’s retail career also includes 10
years in roles of increasing responsibility for Safeway where
she held numerous category director positions, as well as the
positions of Vice President, Business Unit General Manager,
Homecare and General Merchandise; Group Vice President,
Safeway.com; and Group Vice President, Perishable
Strategy.
A native Minnesotan, Dament holds a
marketing degree from St. Thomas University in St. Paul,
Minn.
About SUPERVALU INC.
SUPERVALU INC. is one of the largest grocery wholesalers and
retailers in the U.S. with annual sales of approximately $13
billion. SUPERVALU serves customers across the United States
through a network of 2,067 stores composed of 1,850 stores
operated by wholesale customers serviced primarily by the Company’s
food distribution business, 195 traditional retail grocery stores
operated under five retail banners, and 22 stores operated under
the Shop 'N Save name in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West
Virginia (store counts as of December 3, 2016). Headquartered
in Minnesota, SUPERVALU has approximately 30,000 employees. For
more information about SUPERVALU visit www.supervalu.com.
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