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• Bashas has hired Barry Craft, who has a career with stops at retailers such as Bruno’s, Schwegmann, H-E-B and Fiesta, to be its new vice president of marketing, merchandising and procurement. Craft will succeed Phil Hawkes, who is retiring.


Reuters reports that Amazon has named Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of PepsiCo, as a member of its board of directors, “making her the second woman to be named to the e-commerce giant’s board this month.

“Earlier this month, the company named Starbucks Corp’s Chief Operating Officer Rosalind Brewer as a director, the second black woman to serve on its board.”
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