Jamba hires Safeway exec as CEO
San Francisco Business Times - by Steven E.F. Brown
Jamba Inc. hired former Safeway executive James White as president and CEO, starting Dec. 1.
The Emeryville business (NASDAQ: JMBA) is the parent of smoothie maker Jamba Juice Co.
White, 47, was senior vice president of consumer brands at Pleasanton grocery chain Safeway (NYSE: SWY), a job he took in 2005.
His base salary at Jamba will be $550,000 and he gets a signing bonus of $100,000. He’s eligible for a bonus of up to 100 percent of his salary, according to his employment agreement. And he is also entitled to a “retention bonus” that vests over three years — it’s worth either half a million dollars or whatever amount will leave him with $300,000 after taxes and other withholding.
Chairman Steven Berrard, who has been interim CEO and president since Paul Clayton quit the top job in August, will step down from his executive jobs but stay as chairman. He’ll rejoin Jamba’s audit committee, taking the place of Richard Federico.
Jamba lost $12.4 million in the quarter ended Oct. 7. A year earlier in the same quarter — its third — Jamba pulled in a profit of $22.4 million.
Same-store sales, an important barometer of a retailer’s condition, fell 10.3 percent during the third quarter in stores owned by the company. In the third quarter of 2007 they rose 3.8 percent.
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