Thursday, August 7, 2014

Sam Duncan: Supervalu Inc. CEO

Sam Duncan lives and breathes retail. At the age of 15 he started his career as a courtesy clerk at Albertsons. He held various positions in the company climbing up the corporate ladder. Then in 1992 Sam moved to Fred Meyer, a division of Kroger as Vice President of Grocery. He was eventually promoted as President of Fred Meyer Division. From 1998 to 2001 he was President of Ralph’s Grocery Company, one of the largest food retailers in Southern California.

From 2002 to 2005 Sam was President and Chief Executive Officer of ShopKo Stores, Inc., a $3 billion Midwest retailer. Then from 2005 to 2011 he served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of OfficeMax, an office supplies retailer in North America with over 1,000 stores in the U.S., Mexico, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands with over $7 billion in revenues.

Sam has joined an even bigger company and is now President and Chief Executive Officer of SUPERVALU, Inc. since February, 2013. He has also been a director since July 2013.

SUPERVALU is a grocery industry giant with more than 3,400 owned, licensed, franchised and affiliated stores throughout the U.S.

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