Walgreens Announces Enhanced Daily Living Team As Company Moves Forward with Alliance Boots Partnership, Strategic Growth Pr...
August 14 2013 - 7:35AM
Business Wire
Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (NASDAQ: WAG) today announced an enhanced
Daily Living business organization with the promotion and
leadership expansion of key marketing and merchandising executives
to further accelerate the company’s strategic growth drivers and
advance its vision to be the first choice in health and daily
living for everyone in America, and beyond.
The promotions and other changes in Walgreens Daily Living
organization, which are effective Oct. 1, accompany the
announcement today by Walgreens and Alliance Boots GmbH that Alex
Gourlay, Chief Executive of Alliance Boots Health and Beauty
Division, has been named Walgreens Executive Vice President,
President of Customer Experience and Daily Living. Reporting to
Walgreens President and Chief Executive Officer Greg Wasson,
Gourlay will lead the enhanced Walgreens Daily Living organization
overseeing U.S. merchandising, marketing, customer insights,
customer experience and daily living products and promotions.
“With our enhanced Daily Living and Merchandising organization,
combined with Alex Gourlay’s experience and expertise in global
health and beauty, we are further expanding and complementing
Walgreens already strong leadership team including Mark Wagner,
President of Operations and Community Management; Kermit Crawford,
President of Pharmacy, Health and Wellness; Graham Atkinson, our
Chief Marketing Officer and the creator of our 79-million member
Balance® Rewards loyalty program; and Sona Chawla, President of
E-Commerce and our omni-channel strategy,” said Walgreens President
and CEO Greg Wasson. “By combining the best marketing and
merchandising practices of Walgreens and Alliance Boots, we are
accelerating our ‘Well Experience’ strategy to step out of the
traditional drugstore format and create a truly differentiated
experience for customers and patients.”
Today’s announcement includes a number of promotions and
expansion of leadership roles of Walgreens Daily Living and
Merchandising executives:
- Bryan Pugh becomes Corporate Vice
President, U.S. Merchandising Program Development & Execution.
As Walgreens continues to hone and expand transformational
merchandise programs and prepares for further joint merchandise
initiatives with Alliance Boots across beauty, personal care,
health and wellness, Pugh’s newly created role will bridge
operations and merchandising functions and oversee rollout of new
merchandising initiatives to the field, including operating
standards, cross-functional deployment and flagship rollout.
- Moe Alkemade becomes Group Vice
President, Global Sourcing. With his deep experience in developing
and marketing consumer-packaged goods programs, Moe successfully
led the restructuring and strong growth trajectory of Walgreens
private brand portfolio, and established the foundation for
Walgreens global sourcing capabilities. In his newly created role,
Alkemade will focus on optimizing global sourcing and Daily Living
buying synergies with Alliance Boots and AmerisourceBergen.
- Shannon Curtin is promoted to Group
Vice President and General Merchandise Manager, Beauty. Curtin will
accelerate development and growth of Walgreens beauty proposition
and customer experience across the United States, particularly
underserved U.S. markets, and collaborate with the Alliance Boots
and global partnership teams in maximizing U.S. opportunities for
the Boots beauty proposition.
- Robert Tompkins is promoted to Group
Vice President and General Merchandise Manager, Health and
Wellness. Tompkins will accelerate development of innovative health
and wellness products and programs for the U.S., collaborating with
Alliance Boots and global partnership teams on joint program
development.
- Jim Jensen becomes Divisional Vice
President and General Merchandise Manager, Seasonal and General
Merchandise, providing high-level, single-accountability focus on
seasonal daily living products and promotions that are a key driver
in Walgreens monthly daily living sales.
- Beth Stiller is promoted to Group Vice
President, Category Planning, Formats & Innovation, and takes
on an expanded role in merchandising with responsibility for
category development, space planning, merchandise formats and
program innovation, and private brands.
- Linda Severin, formerly of Kroger,
where she led the redevelopment of its private brand portfolio,
joins Walgreens as Divisional Vice President, Private Brands,
responsible for product development, brand management and program
execution of Walgreens private brands.
About Walgreens
As the nation's largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2012 sales
of $72 billion, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) vision is to be the
first choice in health and daily living for everyone in America,
and beyond. Each day, Walgreens provides more than 6 million
customers the most convenient, multichannel access to consumer
goods and services and trusted, cost-effective pharmacy, health and
wellness services and advice in communities across America.
Walgreens scope of pharmacy services includes retail, specialty,
infusion, medical facility and mail service, along with respiratory
services. These services improve health outcomes and lower costs
for payers including employers, managed care organizations, health
systems, pharmacy benefit managers and the public sector. The
company operates 8,105 drugstores in all 50 states, the District of
Columbia and Puerto Rico. Take Care Health Systems is a Walgreens
subsidiary that is the largest and most comprehensive manager of
worksite health and wellness centers and in-store convenient care
clinics, with more than 700 locations throughout the country.
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