Corporate Governance

Pete Luckett learned all about sales and retail while working as a teenager in England’s competitive open markets.

IGA Gazaille’s Annick Gazaille is the true definition of an innovative, resourceful, passionate grocer.

There’s no doubt that celebrity chef Mark McEwan knows a thing or two about the restaurant world.

As executive chairman of Loblaw Companies, Galen Weston has made healthy eating and sustainability initiatives a big priority for Canada’s largest grocer.

François Bouchard has made good on a promise he made back in 1986 as the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers’ first scholarship recipient: to give back to the industry.

Steve van der Leest has done just about everything in the grocery store, from part-time bagger, to store manager, to independent owner.

Walmart Canada’s new boss, Shelley Broader, started her career in finance advising U.S.

Frank Coleman is CEO of Colemans Food Centres in Newfoundland.

Bill Chen arrived in Toronto, in 1999, from Fuqing, China, and immediately began working in a supermarket.

After graduating from Harvard with an MBA in 1991, Eric La Flèche called up Pierre Lessard, then president of Metro, and asked for a job.

President and CEO of Sobeys Inc., Bill McEwan, started in the grocery industry at age 15, working at a Ferraro’s Super Valu store in British Columbia.