Rob Quast takes over post as Rebekah Manis shifts to new role
The Kroger Co. has named Rob Quast as head of investor relations, succeeding Rebekah Manis, who has been promoted to a new strategic role at the company.
The appointments are effective immediately, Cincinnati-based Kroger said yesterday. Before his promotion to director of investor relations, Quast served as director of risk management.
Quast (left) joined Kroger in December 2013 as a financial manager in the corporate accounting department. In 2015, he was promoted to senior director of corporate insurance and then in 2017 to director of insurance and claims, a role in which he oversaw Kroger’s global insurance strategy.
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A resolution asking grocery chain Kroger Co. to come up with a plan to reduce its plastic packaging nearly passed at the company s annual meeting June 24, with 45 percent of shareholders voting in favor.
Green investment group As You Sow said in a June 29 statement that it urged Kroger, the largest U.S. grocery chain by revenue, to prepare a report by December estimating how much of its plastic packaging is released to the environment from production, disposal and recycling.
The AYS resolution also asked shareholders to require Kroger management to disclose detailed strategies to reduce plastic in packaging.
Similar resolutions at other major companies in recent months resulted in those firms agreeing to sizable cutbacks in the amount of virgin plastic they use. Target Corp. and Keurig Dr Pepper, for example, both announced this year that they have a target of 20 percent reduction in the use of virgin plastic in packaging by 2025, prompting the green shareholder groups to