NACDS
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Robert Hannan will serve as interim president and CEO following Ronald Ziegler's retirement Feb. 28. Hannan was president and CEO of Thrift Drug for 10 years until the chain was acquired by J.C. Penney and merged with Eckerd in 1997. After serving as Eckerd vice chairman during the transition, Hannan retired in 1998. He was NACDS chairman from 1993 to 1994. Ziegler will retire at the end of February "because of health reasons," NACDS announces Feb. 8. Ziegler previously said he would retire in December 2000 after a successor was named ("The Tan Sheet" Feb. 1, p. 27). However, in a series of meetings with the association board in Miami, "he concluded that it was in his best interest to initiate his retirement sooner than originally planned," NACDS says. The association emphasizes that "Ziegler and the entire board hold one another in the highest regard and in the highest terms of respect"