Wal-Mart Names EVP of Grocery Merchandise

1/9/2008

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. names Jack Sinclair as executive vice president of Grocery Merchandise for Wal-Mart in the Unites States. Sinclair will oversee the grocery business for Wal-Mart's U.S. division and will integrate planning, category management and store experience into the overall grocery business unit. He will report to John Fleming, executive vice president and chief merchandising officer for Wal-Mart Stores U.S. Sinclair joins Wal-Mart with broad experience in grocery retailing in the United Kingdom. He spent 14 years at Safeway plc serving as group marketing and trading director and prior to that, he worked at Tesco Stores Ltd.