Progressive Grocer's "Top Women in Grocery"

Progressive Grocer's "Top Women in Grocery" is the industry's leading awards program that recognizes the outstanding contributions from female leaders in the retail food industry. The purpose of the awards program is to celebrate the critical roles the honorees serve in their companies, communities and the industry at large.​  

Christine and Becky are honorees in the Senior Level Executive category, and Kristen is among this year’s honorees in the Rising Star Category.   

Becky Eldredge

VP, Business Development Consulting  

As Vice President of Commercial Loyalty and Incentives, Becky is responsible for driving accelerated growth for Kroger’s personalized commercial loyalty and incentives portfolio.  Becky is responsible for the cross functional teams that delivered approximately 3BN personalized offers that provided customers with a value of over $2.5BN in 2023 through support from CPG and Kroger’s Our Brand offers.   

Becky is a formal mentor in Power Squad – a Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce development program focused on the development of women of color. Becky was selected as a leader to participate in Kroger Young Professional Networking and sought out industry mentor for ~10 college students seeking internships and career advice.    

Christine Foster

VP, Media Strategy and Operations  

Christine is a leader on the Kroger Precision Marketing team. Her thought leadership, curiosity and discipline have uniquely challenged the status quo of operations and have led her to be a driving force to mature KPM’s media operations including scaling the business more effectively, maturing billing practices, reducing aged debt and sharpening pre/post sales operations in collaboration with sales leaders and account management teams.   

Christine is a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Retail Media Committee, Meta's Retail Media Advisory Board, AdMonsters Advisory Board and is a chair lead for 84.51°’s Women's EDGE people led team fostering community, connection and impact.   

Kristen Hoh

Director, Commercial Insights Acceleration  

Kristen leads Commercial Insights Acceleration and is responsible for advancing the value proposition for 84.51° by leading the Commercial Insights Center of Excellence to ensure we leverage our commercial portfolio in the best way to meet our clients’ needs. In fact, she was the catalyst for this COE, collaborating with other 84.51° leaders to build the team which has since established processes and way of working for the organization resulting in short-term tangible revenue growth and longer-term process improvement, all within months of inception of the team.   

Kristen was a member of the 2023 Cincinnati Chamber’s C-Change class, a leadership development and community volunteer program. She actively supports the Brighton Center, a non-profit helping individuals and families in Northern Kentucky reach financial stability and independence and she has dedicated her time to a series of pro-bono marketing and communication projects. 

Christine, Becky and Kristen will join all Top Women award winners to be honored during Grocery Industry Week, the week of November 6 in Orlando, Fla.