FMI elects four new members to board of directors

ARLINGTON, Va. The Food Marketing Institute on Tuesday announced the election of four new members to FMI’s board as well as the election of the board chairman and four board vice chairmen.

Elected to the FMI board of directors are Mark Batenic, chairman, president and CEO, IGA;  Rudy Dory, owner, Rudy’s Markets; Jerry Garland, president and CEO, Associated Wholesale Grocers; and Dean Peterson, president and CEO, Harmon City.

Richard “Jurgens, chairman, CEO and president of Hy-Vee, was elected chairman of the FMI Board; and Steven Smith, president and CEO of K-VA-T Food Stores, is the immediate past chairman of the FMI board.

Elected as FMI vice chairmen to the board are Gregory Calhoun, presiden and CEO of Calhoun Food Markets, who will serve as chairman of the public affairs committee; William Coyne, president and CEO of Raley’s Family of Fine Stores, who will serve as chairman of the finance committee; Ed Crenshaw, chief executive officer of Publix Super Markets, who will serve as chairman of industry relations committee; and Dave Skogen, owner and chairman of the board of Festival Foods, who will serve as chairman of the member services committee.