Article: Cohen's death prompts speculation about Giant's future. (Giant Food Inc. Chmn./CEO Israel Cohen)

LANDOVER, Md. - In November, when Giant Food Inc. chairman and chief executive officer Israel Cohen died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (a form of cancer), he opened the door for speculation about the supermarket and food/drug combination store operator's future. "As a retailer he had no fear," Sheldon (Bud) Fantle, the former chairman of Peoples Drug Stores, says about the 83-year-old Cohen. "All of his ideas were before the fact; he was a leader."

That foresight and ability to spot retailing trends almost before they happened helped Cohen transform Giant from the single-store operation started by his father near the end of the Great Depression into one of the nation's ...

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