Van der Hoeven is still shopping for deals in the U.S. What will he buy next?
Van der Hoeven has promised (and delivered) earnings per share growth of 20% a year since 1996.
"Americans now eat half their meals outside the home, " says van der Hoeven.
Cees van der Hoeven, now 52, is the second professional CEO at Ahold.
"We are not trying to be the cheapest, " says van der Hoeven.
The Keystone amendment, offered by Senators John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, and Max Baucus, D-Montana, passed by a vote of 62 to 37.
Hoeven is the first North Dakota governor to win three four-year terms.
Van der Hoeven plans to transfer some of that know-how to supplying better in-store meals and stocking his stores' delis with more gourmet offerings.
"We had not been doing a perfect job of explaining our strategy, but we were oversubscribed in our last offering, " van der Hoeven boasts.
In North Dakota, Republican incumbent John Hoeven was considered a safe bet to win his third term by defeating Tim Mathern, a Democratic state senator.
John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, Pat Toomey, Bob Corker, Ron Johnson, Saxby Chambliss, Tom Coburn, John Hoeven, Dan Coats, Richard Burr and Mike Johanns.
Van der Hoeven says countries can achieve energy savings equivalent to nearly a fifth of global demand in 2010, making energy efficiency just as important as energy supply.
The International Energy Agency, which coordinates emergency oil stocks held by countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, sees no need for an emergency supply release now, the agency's Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said.
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