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PetSmart Appoints Dickinson to General Counsel Post
PHOENIX, AZ - (Marketwire - July 01, 2009) - PetSmart (NASDAQ: PETM) has named Emily
Dickinson to the position of senior vice president, general counsel and
secretary. Dickinson succeeds Scott Crozier, who retired from the post in
April.
"Emily is a smart, visionary leader with the perfect blend of retail
experience and broad legal expertise," said Bob Moran, PetSmart's president
and CEO. "She has proven results in managing strategy, corporate
governance and corporate filings, litigation, government relations and
regulatory compliance."
Dickinson spent 18 years with Hannaford Bros. Co., eight of which were also
with Delhaize Group, a Belgian-based food retailer with more than 2,600
stores and approximately 136,000 employees. In the United States, Delhaize
primarily operates the Hannaford Bros., Food Lion and Sweetbay stores.
While there, she had dual responsibility as vice president - Legal on a
global basis for Delhaize and senior vice president, general counsel and
secretary for Hannaford Bros. Prior to that, she was an attorney in Boston
and with two Portland, Maine law firms. Dickinson is a pet parent to a
yellow lab named Maggie, a cat named Pumpkin, and Greenback, a red-eared
slider turtle.
About PetSmart:
PetSmart, Inc. is the largest
specialty pet retailer of services and solutions for the lifetime needs of
pets. The company operates more than 1,137 pet stores in the United States
and Canada, 152 in-store PetSmart PetsHotel(R) cat and dog boarding
facilities, and is a leading online provider of pet supplies and pet care
information (www.petsmart.com). PetSmart provides a broad range of
competitively priced pet food and pet products; and offers complete pet training, pet grooming, pet boarding, Doggie Day
Camp(SM) pet day care services and pet adoption services. Since
1994, PetSmart Charities,
Inc., an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit animal welfare organization, has
funded more than $87 million in grants and programs benefiting animal
welfare organizations and, through its in-store pet adoption programs, has
helped save the lives of more than 3.6 million pets.
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