FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Mary Sammons Rank: 39 (2004 Rank: 33)
Age: 59 Company:Rite Aid Based in: Camp Hill Title: President and CEO Get quote:RAD
The good news: Sammons delivered a second consecutive profitable year in 2004, with income of $302 million on $16.8 billion in revenues. The bad news: Same-store and pharmacy sales growth dipped again.
From the November 14, 2005 issue
Highest pay
These women are among the highest paid in corporate America. All of them are employed by companies with over $1 billion in sales that filed proxies by September 1, 2005.
Newcomer Charlene Begley heads up GE's plastics division and is the youngest of this group at age 39. She bumped last year's youngest gun, Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck, now 40. But, on average, the Power 50 are in their late 40s.
