Delhaize Group announces retirement of President and CEO Pierre-Olivier Beckers - Seite 2

Biographical details for Pierre-Olivier Beckers

Pierre-Olivier Beckers (1960). Mr. Beckers earned a Master's degree in applied economics at I.A.G., Louvain-La-Neuve and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He began working in the food retail industry in 1982 as a store manager for a bakery chain in Belgium. Mr. Beckers joined Delhaize Group in 1983, to work initially three years in our U.S. operations as a store manager. After his return to Belgium, he broadened his retail experience as a buyer, director of purchasing, member of the Executive Committee and Director and Executive Vice-President in charge of international activities. He was appointed President and CEO in January 1999 and has served as a director since 1995.
In January 2000, Mr. Beckers was named Manager of the Year by the leading Belgian business magazine Trends/Tendances. In 2009, he was named Belgium's BEL 20 CEO of the year by the Belgian newspapers Le Soir and De Standaard.
Mr Beckers has represented the company and the retail sector at the highest level of global organizations, contributing significantly to establishing stronger partnerships between the retail sector, suppliers and other stakeholders. He serves on the Board and was until 2010 the chairman of The Consumer Goods Forum, the global association of leading consumer goods retailers and manufacturers. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Food Marketing Institute and is Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of FEB/VBO, the Belgian Employers Federation. He is a member of Guberna and was a member, until 2010, of the Belgian Commission on Corporate Governance.
 He has been President of the BOIC (Belgian Olympic Interfederal Committee) since December 2004. He also was elected to the International Olympic Committee in July 2012.
In 2012 Mr. Beckers was awarded the title of baron by King Albert II of Belgium.

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Delhaize Group is a Belgian international food retailer present in ten countries on three continents. At the end of the first quarter of 2013, Delhaize Group's sales network consisted of 3,411 stores. In 2012, Delhaize Group posted €22.7 billion ($29.0 billion) in revenues and €104 million ($134 million) in net profit (Group share). At the end of 2012, Delhaize Group employed approximately 158 000 people. Delhaize Group's stock is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels (DELB) and the New York Stock Exchange (DEG).