Grocery Outlet appoints Eric Lindberg as Interim Presidente and CEO

Grocery Outlet (GO) Holding announced that Eric Lindberg, current Chairman of the Board, has been appointed Interim President and CEO, effective immediately. Lindberg replaces RJ Sheedy, who has stepped down from his position and resigned from the Company’s Board of Directors. The Board has engaged a leading global executive search firm to begin the process of identifying a permanent CEO.With more than three decades of leadership experience at the Company, Lindberg is a Grocery Outlet veteran with a deep knowledge of its operations and strategy. He previously served as CEO or co-CEO from January 2006 through December 2022, during which time he led Grocery Outlet’s transformation from a closely-held family-owned business to a sponsor-backed private company, taking on significant outside capital from Berkshire Partners and Hellman & Friedman, and then ultimately to a publicly-traded company in 2019.