What Happened?
Eden Prairie, MN-based SUPERVALU appointed Wayne Shurts as Chief Information Officer.
About the Company
Supervalu Inc. is one of the largest grocery wholesalers and retailers in the U.S. with annual sales of approximately $17 billion. Supervalu serves customers across the United States through a network of approximately 3,400 stores that include the full range of grocery store formats. Headquarter in Minnesota with over 35,000 employees, Supervalu has been providing the best service to our customers for over 135 years.
About the Person
Wayne joined Sysco in October 2012, after serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for SUPERVALU. Prior to that, he was with Cadbury Schweppes, first serving as Senior Vice President-Information Technology and then becoming CIO in 2008. He began his career in 1981 as a management trainee at Nabisco, where he stayed for 20 years, progressing through a series of roles with increasing responsibility, including Vice President-Sales Operations, Vice President-North American Supply Chain Process and Vice President-e-Business. He left Nabisco to become president of the Principles Group, a consulting firm, where he assisted companies such as IBM, Avaya, and Johnson & Johnson with technology-enabled business transformation strategies.
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