Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA)

[big-yank]

Walgreens jumped through hoops, as I heard it, to hire Kim Feil away from Sara Lee Foods to become Chief Marketing Officer. She had a strong Marketing and Strategic Planning resume that included senior roles at Kimberly Clark and several retail fastfood multi-nationals. She, IMHO, did a first rate job at moving Walgreens out of the garbage & gimmick retail advertising mode it had been rutted in... "mail-in rebates", what a SCAM... and actually moved Walgreens into a classier merchandising posture that enhanced the overall brand. I thought she did a really good job, from what I saw.

Wasson dumped Feil for Joseph Magnacca who came from the Duane Reade pedigree, appropriate (dog) play on words fully intended.

Kim Feil is now the Chief Marketing Officer at Office Max and I doubt would return to Walgreens. What a loss of talent, only to have no talent left at all.

GLTA,

Yank