CINCINNATI, April 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger
Co. (NYSE: KR) today announced Angel Colón has been promoted to
senior director of diversity. He has been serving as the company's
director of multicultural development for merchandising since
2008.
Mr. Colon succeeds Rueben
Shaffer, who retired at the end of March, as Kroger's head
of diversity and also assumes the responsibilities for the
company's strong supplier diversity program.
"Angel has been on the leading edge of Kroger's multicultural
merchandising initiatives, as well as our internal resource groups
supporting and promoting the needs of our diverse workforce, for
nearly a decade," said Tim Massa,
Kroger's group vice president of human resources and labor
relations. "We look forward to his continued leadership in his new
role, where he will be responsible for Kroger's diversity efforts
while also continuing to shape and influence our multicultural
efforts."
Mr. Colón has held a variety of leadership roles in the grocery
industry for 27 years, including product management, direct store
delivery merchandising, category management, promotions, sales
leadership, broker management, regional marketing, customer
marketing and ethnic marketing. He joined Kroger in 2008 in his
current role, where he established the company's Multicultural
Department and strategic direction. Mr. Colón was also a founding
member of the KEPASA Associate Resource Group at Kroger's
general office, which is an affinity group that empowers, supports
and advocates for Hispanic and Latino associates.
Mr. Colón earned an MBA and lives in Cincinnati with his wife. They have three
children.
Kroger is a proud member of the Billion Dollar Roundtable
and the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Million
Dollar Club. Earlier this year, Kroger was named one of the top
eight U.S. corporations for inclusion by Omnikal (formerly
Diversity Business).
Every day, the Kroger Family of Companies makes a difference in
the lives of eight and a half million customers and 443,000
associates who shop or serve in 2,796 retail food stores under a
variety of local banner names in 35 states and the District of Columbia. Kroger and its
subsidiaries operate an expanding ClickList offering – a
personalized, order online, pick up at the store service – in
addition to our 2,255 pharmacies, 784 convenience stores, 319 fine
jewelry stores, 220 retail health clinics, 1,445 supermarket fuel
centers and 38 food production plants in the United States. Kroger is recognized as one
of America's most generous companies for its support of more than
100 Feeding America food bank partners, breast cancer research and
awareness, the military and their families, and more than 145,000
community organizations including schools.
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SOURCE The Kroger Co.