Ahold

Stop & Shop’s president, Mark McGowan will depart the company, and Gordon Reid, the president of Giant Food, will become president of Stop & Shop.

With 2,000 stores and 23 distribution centers, Ahold Delhaize has shaped itself into a formidable competitor. Regardless of format, Ahold Delhaize’s stores manage to balance the convenience of being a one-stop shop with a neighborhood market feel.

The Consumer Goods Forum’s health-and-wellness efforts are bringing together retailers, manufacturers and local organizations to build healthier communities and demand for healthier products.

Produce Rx, a cross-sector partnership between DC Greens, Giant, AmeriHealth Caritas DC, DC Health, and community clinics, offers prescriptions for free fruits and vegetables to qualifying shoppers.

Ahold Delhaize has named Farhan Siddiqi its new chief digital officer and member of the executive committee, effective January 28, 2019.

Erk Keptner, the previous senior vice president of sales, merchandising and marketing for Ahold Delhaize’s Giant Food Stores, has been appointed to the role.

Ahold Delhaize’s Giant Food Stores is officially opening on Friday its 65th Beer & Wine Eatery in Pennsylvania’s Camp Hill borough.

Points of Light, an organization dedicated to volunteer service, recently released its Civic 50 list, highlighting companies that are examples of good corporate citizenship. Food Lion has announced that it was the sole retailer on the list for the second consecutive year, which was announced at the Points of Light Conference on Volunteering and Service in Atlanta.