Executive Vice President and Chief Merchant & Marketing Officer · KROGER CO (KR)

Mary Ellen Adcock

A named executive officer of KROGER in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2024 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$6,035,094

FY2024: $6,737,886

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed May 13, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Mary Ellen Adcock compensation by year

KROGER Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as KROGER reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$856,400$897,321
Bonus$0—
Stock awards$3,700,060$3,399,986
Option awards$899,842$849,972
Non-equity incentive$1,071,085$714,546
Pension and deferred compensation$0—
All other$210,499$173,269
Total$6,737,886$6,035,094

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: KROGER CO DEF 14A filed May 13, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-060250, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$6.7M
$6.0M
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Insider transactions since the last proxy

7 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed May 13, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-09-18Exercise or conversion—37,960$34.94237,288
2026-09-18Exercise or conversion—10,846$38.32248,134
2026-09-18Sale—37,960$60.73210,174
2026-09-18Sale—10,846$60.64199,328
2026-09-18Sale—24,095$60.68175,233
2026-09-18Exercise or conversion derivative—37,960$0.000
2026-09-18Exercise or conversion derivative—10,846$0.000

The 7 most recent of 7 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments KROGER discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary termination without cause—$0—$10,385
Change in control, no termination—$0—$10,385
Voluntary resignation—$0—$10,385
Disability—$5,870,679—$5,881,064
Death—$5,870,679—$7,231,064
Change in control and involuntary termination$3,600,000$6,725,116$64,709$10,400,210

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in KROGER CO's FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

KROGER’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Ronald L. SargentInterim Chief Executive Officer and Chairman$14,037,608
David KennerleyExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$10,353,230
Yael CossetExecutive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer$7,228,455
Timothy MassaExecutive Vice President and Associate Experience Officer$6,565,846
Mary Ellen Adcock · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Merchant & Marketing Officer$6,035,094
Todd FoleyFormer Senior Vice President and Interim Chief Financial Officer$1,321,645
W. Rodney McMullenFormer Chairman and Chief Executive Officer$843,061

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How this record is built

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