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Costco CEO to step down at the end of this year

The US wholesale giant has announced that Craig Jelinek will be stepping down from his role as CEO, and will hand the reins to Ron Vachris. Ron started his career at Costco as a forklift driver, and has been with the business for 40 years, latterly as COO.

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