SCARBOROUGH, Maine — There has been a management shake up at Hannaford.
The Scarborough-based grocery chain, which has 181 stores throughout the northeastern United States, today announced Brad Wise will take over as president.
Wise will replace Beth Newlands Campbell, who is taking a new position as president of Food Lion, Hannaford’s sister company based in Salisbury, N.C., Hannaford spokesman Michael Norton told the Bangor Daily News.
Wise was formerly senior vice president of human resources for Delhaize America, the parent company of both Hannaford and Food Lion. His new position is effective immediately, Norton said.
In addition, Wise will also become president of Sweetbay Supermarkets, another Delhaize chain based in Tampa, Fla.
Campbell’s move and Wise’s promotion are a result of management decisions made by Delhaize America’s new CEO, Roland Smith. Smith took over his role at Delhaize America about six weeks ago, Norton said. Smith is the former CEO of Wendy’s.
Wise, a Gorham resident, began his career at Hannaford in 1985 as a retail management trainee, according to a media release. He served in various roles at the grocery chain during his career, including store manager and vice president of retail operations for Hannaford’s eastern region. Wise has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern Maine.
Newlands Campbell, who began her career at Hannaford in 1987 as a retail management trainee, was named president of Hannaford in February 2010. She will now become the new president of Food Lion, which is bigger than Hannaford with nearly 1,200 stores in 10 states. A current resident of Cape Elizabeth, she will relocate to North Carolina, according to a media release.
Good to see they both started at Hannafords yrs ago, worked their way up the food chain, so to speak.
Agreed. I am also willing to bet that as management trainees they were not making big money. I nice object lesson in the reality that you can start at low levels in an organization and WORK your way to the top and a comfortable living.
Agreed. I am also willing to bet that as management trainees they were not making big money. A nice object lesson in the reality that you can start at low levels in an organization and perhaps be the one in 10,000 or so employees who could WORK your way to being president of the company and earn a comfortable living.
The humble Farmer
I won’t argue the point except to say that many more who don’t make CEO will rise to high management positions. It is generally regarded as a competitive race that sorts out the talented and skilled from those that don’t have the skills to qualify for the very highest management positions. I would argue that organizations are stronger if their organization is based on meritocracy and one that promotes from within.
Are you suggesting that lesser positions than President of any company are not well paying? My daughter manages not one person as a Grocery store Pharmacist and does pretty well.
The Humble Farmer dislikes success especially when it demonstrates that anyone can work their way up. HF doesn’t believe in the American dream.
How does pointing out the industry standard of low pay for management trainees say anything about the pay rate for a licensed professional in a VERY competitive field (Pharmacist) with a well known shortage of qualified applicants?
Go back and read HF’s comment. According to him only 1 in 10,000 make a comfortable living. Not true
Job #1 find a new supplier for your Hannaford Brand Whole Chickens. Preferably one that doesn’t include full intestines in the gut bag! And yes my complaint was given to corporate. So, no excuse for not hearing about it!
And a bigger sneeze shield over the salad bar.
If anything, the sneeze guard is too big. As a tall man I have difficulty reaching the back row unless i bend down quite a bit, and with arthritic knees, thats a challenge.
Buffets give me the Jeebies…even worse at a Chinese restaurant.
I don’t trust chinese buffets either, and every american buffet food tastes exactly the same to me. Hannaford does have very good, clean and fresh salad bars though.
My daughter obtained degrees Cellular and Molecular Biology and Bio Chemistry before getting a Pharm D Degree. After she explained to me what goes on as food sits under the buffet lights I looked at it a whole lot different. Get there when they put it out fresh in the late morning. Avoid the sprouts at all costs.
Dear BDN, you missed part of the story here, somewhat noteworthy, that the exiting President of Food Lion is Bangor native and 1984 BHS graduate, Cathy Pratt Green Burns. She started with Hannaford, originally Shoprite/Doug’s Shop n Save, in 1982.
From the Huffington post:
“Beth Newlands Campbell is replacing Cathy Green Burns, who became a familiar face on Food Lion’s television commercials.
The management change was announced late Thursday by Roland Smith, chief executive officer of Delhaize America, Food Lion’s Belgium-based parent company.
Smith didn’t announce a reason for removing Burns as president. Delhaize America said in a news release that it was restructuring to improve results.”
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They do away with so many products, it’s hard to buy the same favorite product twice.
My Essentials and 360 products don’t cut it for me.
I would hope he would get benefits for all the associates.
The trend at Hannaford, and most of the big chain stores, has been to cut individuals’ scheduled hours to avoid paying full benefits, making it up by employing more part time (cheaper) employees.
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Unfortunately I suspect that will not be reversed anytime soon.
I have a friend that was working 20 hours a week at Hannaford and then was cut to 8 hrs a week. Nothing is set in stone so you can depend on what your salary will be week to week. People in my area work 2 and 3 jobs just to break even and never seem to be able to get ahead.
Most businesses are now in the same mode or heading in that direction thanks to Obama Care. Only top positions will be full time. Part time employees do not have to be supplied with insurance. Many small businesses cannot expand beyond 10 full time employees without having to provide insurance so it is causing many business owners to remain small even though they want to expand they cannot afford good wages and insurance