Food Lion recognizes Bloom store manager with award
SALISBURY, N.C. — The Food Lion Family and Bloom have recognized Scott Brinson as the recipient of the 2010 store manager excellence award. Brinson, who is the store manager of a Food Lion in Jacksonville, N.C., was selected from a group of seven other market/banner winners.
The store manager excellence awards are a key part of Food Lion Family's and Bloom's efforts to acknowledge the leadership role store managers play. Food Lion Family president Cathy Green Burns presented Brinson with the award earlier this week during the company's Leadership Summit.
"Scott sets a very high standard for his store," stated Brinson's district manager Chris Whaley. "Scott does a great job in motivating his associates to achieve greatness in all that they do. He uses a common sense approach to his business to achieve positive outcome."
The store manager excellence award selection includes nine areas of focus: associate development, leadership, strategic decision-making, cross-organizational collaboration and teamwork, executional excellence, extraordinary results, great customer experiences, community involvement, and diversity and inclusion.
"There were other people who could have won it, but I guess I was the lucky one this year," stated Brinson, who has worked with Food Lion for 19 years, with nine of those years as store manager. "It is a humbling experience for me because this is such a prestigious award."
The Food Lion Family banners and Bloom regional winners were:
Food Lion, northeastern market
Region 1: Dan Vaughan, Store 1321, Millville, Del.;
Region 2: Ted Seidenberg, Store 1683, Hagerstown, Md.;
Region 3: John Haddox, Store 2525, Ruther Glen, Va.;
Region 4: Jeremy Powell (northeastern market winner), Store 1081, Covington, Va.; and
Region 5: Bryan A. Bowen, Store 2573, Blacksburg, Va.
Food Lion, mid-Atlantic market
Region 1: Jimmy Chatman, Store 1569, Thomasville, N.C.;
Region 2: Charles Inman, Store 2197, Clayton, N.C.;
Region 3: Michael Buschagen (mid-Atlantic market winner), Store 894, Burlington, N.C.;
Region 4: Steve Williams, Store 839, Portsmouth, Va.; and
Region 5: James Consendine, Store 1333, Virginia Beach, Va.
Food Lion, southwestern market
Region 1: Terry Blick, Store 1473, Clarksville, Tenn.;
Region 2: Chris Spears, Store 2592, Boone, N.C.;
Region 3: Eldrick Stovall (southwestern market winner), Store 748 Charlotte, N.C.; and
Region 4: Ronnie Catledge, Store 928 Chester, S.C.
Food Lion, southeastern market
Region 1: Scott Brinson (southeastern market winner, 2010 store manager of the year), Store 1494, Jacksonville, N.C.;
Region 2: James R. Fain, Store 1373, Greenville, N.C.;
Region 3: David Wilson, Store 2124, Ladson, S.C.; and
Region 4: Stephanie Marshall, Store 1245, Macon, Ga.
Bloom
Region 1: John Henley, Store 2760, Mooresville, N.C.; and
Region 2: Clinton Smith, Store 2745, 2732, 2740, Locust Grove, Va.
Harveys
Glenn Giddens, Store 2384, Tifton, Ga.
Reid's
Byron Green, Store 677, New Ellington, S.C.
The Food Lion Family, based in Salisbury, N.C., operates more than 1,300 supermarkets, either directly or through affiliated entities, under the Food Lion, Bloom, Harveys or Reid's names.