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• Price Chopper Supermarkets/Golub Corporation announced that Mona Golub, the company’s Vice President of Public Relations and Consumer Services, has been promoted to the position of Vice President of Public Relations and Consumer and Marketing Services.

Price Chopper also announced that Heidi Reale, the company’s Manager of Market Research, has been promoted to the position of Director of Consumer Insights.

• Gladson, the provider of product information and category management services for the consumer packaged goods industry, has named Susan B. Sentell as its new president/CEO. Sentell, the company said, “has served on Gladson’s board of directors since 2007 and has over 25 years of executive experience, leading companies in Fortune 500, mid-sized and entrepreneurial environments.”

• The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) announced the appointment of Thomas Osborne as senior technical director of the Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI), a division of FMI.   Osborne joins SQF with 18 years of industry food safety experience, most recently as director of quality assurance, food safety, regulatory affairs and laboratories at Wayne Farms, LLC.  He also served in various quality assurance and food safety roles for 9 years at Tyson Foods, Inc.  
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