Gambino named to Spartan Stores board
Sept. 9, 2003
KALAMAZOO -- Frank M. Gambino, director of Western Michigan University's Food Marketing Program,, has been elected to the board of directors of Spartan Stores Inc.
Gambino, an associate professor of marketing at WMU, assumes the Spartan board seat previously held by former WMU President Elson S. Floyd.
Before joining the WMU faculty in 1984, Gambino accrued more
than 15 years of experience in the retail food industry, with
responsibility for merchandising, marketing and operations. He
organizes and leads the annual conference that brings food industry
leaders from around the nation to campus.
Spartan Stores Inc. is the nation's ninth largest grocery distributor.
The company distributes more than 40,000 private-label and national
brand products to 330 stores in Michigan. Spartan Stores also
owns and operates 55 retail supermarkets and 21 deep-discount
drug stores in Michigan and Ohio.
Media contact: Jessica English, 269 387-8400, jessica.english@wmich.edu