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Doing What’s Rightin the
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Pat Hensley, senior vice president of non-foods, and John Griesenbrock, vice president of produce and HealthMarkets, Haccept the Produce Business Retail Sustainability Award at the chain’s Waukee, IA, store.
y-Vee, the employee-owned 244-store chain non-foods, who oversees corporate sustainability initiatives, agree, based in Des Moines, IA, and spanning eight while taking on roles in the execution of the company’s mission. Midwestern states, fosters an inexorable personal Randy Edeker, chairman and chief executive, who, like many and shared responsibility pledge: “Take owner- Hy-Vee executives started with the company bagging groceries, ship of sustainability and champion it, because cultivates and propels a strong sustainability vision. “His over-
it’s the right thing to do.” arching philosophy and mantra have always been, ‘those who can
This pledge drives Hy-Vee’s winning strategy invariably store by store, says Brett Bremser, executive vice president of perishables. Company veterans John Griesenbrock, vice president of produce and HealthMarkets, and Pat Hensley, senior vice president of
do good should, not just in one particular area of sustainability, but in all areas of our company.’ He drives us to look for what’s next, to not be satis ed with where we’re at. He is fantastic at igniting a competitive re in all of us,” says Bremser.
RETAIL SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
Hy-Vee “owns” sustainability. BY MIRA SLOTT
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