Hy-Vee CEO wins IGIA Retailer of the Year award

DES MOINES, Iowa The CEO of supermarket chain Hy-Vee has won the Iowa Grocery Industry Association’s Retailer of the Year award, according to published reports.

The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reported that Hy-Vee chairman, CEO and president Ric Jurgens won the award at the IGIA’s Hall of Fame Dinner in West Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday.

Jurgens began working for Hy-Vee as a college student in 1969. He became CEO of the company in 2003, when then-CEO Ron Pearson stepped down.