COMPANY

Supermarket chain formed 1926 by the merger of M. B. Skaggs' Skaggs Stores with the Sam Seelig Company. It was acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 1986. After extensive restructuring and the sale of half its stores, Safeway was made a public company again in 1990. It presently has 1,775 stores in North America, operating under the Safeway brand and a variety of lesser names including Carrs (Alaska), Casa Ley (Mexico), Dominick's (Illinois), Genuardi's (Pennsylvania), Pak 'n' Save (California), Randall's (Texas), Tom Thumb Food & Pharmacy (Texas), and Vons (California). Acquired by Cerberus Capital Management in 2015.

Official Website:
http://www.safeway.com/

Industry:
Retail

Ticker:
NYSE:SWY

Corporate headquarters:
Pleasanton, CA

Sales:
$38.4B (2005)

Employees:
200,000

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Steve Burd	Business	1949		CEO of Safeway
Brian C. Cornell	Business	c. 1960		CEO of Michaels Stores
Charles K. Crovitz	Business	c. 1953		EVP at Gap, 1998-2003
Julian C. Day	Business	14-May-1952		CEO of Radio Shack
Jim Donald	Business	?		President and CEO of Starbucks
Lawrence V. Jackson	Business	c. 1953		Wal-Mart executive
Peter A. Magowan	Business	5-Apr-1942		President, San Francisco Giants
Charles E. Merrill	Business	19-Oct-1885	6-Oct-1956	Founder of Merrill Lynch
Vasant M. Prabhu	Business	c. 1960		CFO of Starwood Hotels
M. B. Skaggs	Business	5-Apr-1888	8-May-1976	Founder of Safeway

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Steve Burd	Business	1949		CEO of Safeway
Janet E. Grove	Business	c. 1952		Vice Chairman of Federated Stores
Mohan Gyani	Business	c. 1951		CEO of AT&T Wireless, 2000-03
Paul Hazen	Business	1941		CEO of Wells Fargo Bank, 1995-98
Robert I. MacDonnell	Business	c. 1937		Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Douglas F. Mackenzie	Business	c. 1959		Partner, Kleiner Perkins
Rebecca A. Stirn	Business	c. 1952		President of Aesthetic Sciences Corporation
William Y. Tauscher	Business	c. 1949		CEO of ComputerLand, 1987-99
Raymond G. Viault	Business	c. 1945		Vice Chairman of General Mills, 1996-2004

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Sam Ginn	Business	c. 1938		CEO of Airtouch Communications, 1993-99
Henry Kravis	Business	6-Jan-1944		Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Peter A. Magowan	Business	5-Apr-1942		President, San Francisco Giants
George R. Roberts	Business	1944		Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
M. B. Skaggs	Business	5-Apr-1888	8-May-1976	Founder of Safeway

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Joe Albertson	Business	17-Oct-1906	20-Jan-1993	Founder of Albertson's
Kathryn Walt Hall	Diplomat	1947		US Ambassador to Austria, 1997-2001
George W. Off	Business	c. 1947		Checkpoint Systems
Mike Vaska	Activist	1960		Discovery Institute

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