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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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