Vassilis Stavrou leaves Mega Image, his position being taken over by a Romanian manager | Progresiv

Vassilis Stavrou, currently General Manager of Mega Image, will be named Brand President of Alfa Beta in Greece, starting October 1, 2018, succeeding Leonidas Vrettakos, who will withdraw from the business. Alfa Beta is one of the six companies in the Ahold Delhaize Group operating in Central and South Eastern Europe.

Stavrou will leave Mega Image in the hands of Mircea Moga, currently Commercial and Logistics SVP within Mega Image, who will be named Brand President of the company.

"We are very pleased that Vassilis returns to Greece to take over Alfa Beta, a company he knows well. Vassilis began his career in Alfa Beta in 1994 and has come to know the organization through various roles such as Logistics, Quality Assurance and Human Resources. We have all the confidence that he is the right leader to ensure that Alfa Beta maintains the number one position it currently holds on the Greek market", said Frans Muller, CEO of Ahold Delhaize.

Mircea Moga participated in the development of the company, contributing to its growth from four stores, when he started his career in Mega Image, at more than 620 stores today.

Vassilis Stavrou, 48, holds the position of General Manager of Mega Image since mid-2015, with a 24-year retail experience. In an interview with the Progresiv magazine, shortly after taking office in Romania, he said: "I have just started within the Delhaize group in the logistics department, after a few years I moved to the department of quality and food safety and then I have activated in the human resources area in various positions with regional responsibility. Prior to taking over as Managing Director of Mega Image Romania, I spent nearly a year as Director of Business Development for Southeast Europe and Indonesia".

Founded in 1995, Mega Image is one of the largest supermarket chains in Romania with a network currently comprising 623 stores in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Constanta, Ploiesti, Brasov, Targoviste, Timisoara and other cities in the country under the brands Mega Image, Shop & Go, Gusturi Romanesti.