The large B.C. grocery chain Georgia Main Food Group, which owns the Fresh Street Market and IGA Marketplace banners, is newly without a president.
Gary Sorenson has left his role as president and chief operating officer after serving at the grocer's helm since 2018. He had been with the larger H.Y. Louie group, which owns the grocer, since 2011.
Georgia Main has not announced anyone as being its new president but H.Y. Louie CEO Brant Louie would essentially be the person in charge.
Instead, Georgia Main has appointed Jeff Starnaman to be the company's COO. Starnaman for the past year has been Georgia Main's vice-president of merchandising.
Failing to immediately appoint a new president after the departure of a previous top executive is something H.Y. Louie has done in the past.
H.Y. Louie also owns the large general-merchandising company London Drugs.
When longtime London Drugs president and CEO Wynne Powell drifted into semi-retirement in February 2014, Louie assumed those titles from Powell.
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Louie then promoted Malhman to be London Drugs' president and COO in January 2018.
Last year, who work at its 81 London Drugs stores in Western Canada and through Georgia Main, which then operated 22 IGA stores, seven Fresh St. Market stores and a new Asian grocery store in B.C. called Meiga Supermarket.
