Andy giancamilli biography
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Andrew Giancamilli
Andrew A. (Andy) Giancamilli has been a leader in the retail industry for almost four decades.
A pharmacist by training, Mr. Giancamilli began his career at Perry Drug Stores, where he rose to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer. He was recruited from Perry Drugs to Kmart Corporation, where he held positions of increasing responsibility, including Senior Vice President, Consumables; President and General Merchandise Manager; and President and Chief Operating Officer, where he oversaw the company's $40 billion in sales and 300,000 employees. He then moved to Canada to accept a position with Canadian Tire Corporation before serving as President and Chief Executive of Katz Group Ltd., a Canadian company that operates more than 1,800 pharmacies and associated health care businesses.
Mr. Giancamilli holds a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Wayne State University and attended the Executive Management Program at Cornell University. He served as chair of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores and director of the Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Opera Company, Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center, and as a trustee of the Detroit Opera House. He is on the Board
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Giancamilli gets Lifetime Achievement honors
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — To hear Andy Giancamilli tell it, one of the surest avenues to success in business, as in life, is to be in the right place at the right time. Throughout the course of his 34-year career in community pharmacy and mass market retailing, the chief executive officer of Katz Group North America and current chairman of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores has often found himself in such circumstances and consistently capitalized on them.
For his uncanny ability to recognize and make the most of opportunities to use his talents to elevate the fortunes of a diverse group of retailers, the editors of Chain Drug Review have given Giancamilli the publication’s Ronald L. Ziegler Lifetime Achievement Award. (The honor is named for the legendary executive who ran NACDS from 1988 to 1998.)
Giancamilli’s story is an inspiring one. Born on a farm near L’Aquila, Italy (site of a recent severe earthquake), he came to the United States as a five-year-old boy when he and his mother took everything they owned and crossed the Atlantic to join his father. Several year earlier, the elder Giancamilli had gone ahead of them, first to Canada, in search of a better life. The family was reunited in Detroit.
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