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SALISBURY, N.C. - Beth Newlands Campbell worked at Hannaford Bros. through a quarter century marked by growth and innovation.
Now her skills and experience will be put to the test at Hannaford's much larger - and more troubled - sister chain, Food Lion, based here, where she was recently named president.
Her assignment was part of a broad overhaul of management personnel at Delhaize America, in which the new chief executive officer, Roland Smith, has streamlined the structure of the company in the wake of store closures.
Newlands Campbell, who began her career as a Hannaford store manager trainee in 1987 and worked in a variety of roles before being named president of the Scarborough, Maine-based banner, was part of "one of the best management teams in the industry" during her time there, said one observer.
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