Tesco

Sir Terry Leahy is a former CEO of Tesco, the largest British retailer. He lives in Cuffley, Hertfordshire, with his wife, Alison and his three... children. Following his then girlfriend to London, he applied to become a product manager for Turkey Foil but was turned down. He applied for a job at Tesco, but lost out to another candidate. After that candidate was quickly reassigned upwards, Leahy returned to Tesco in 1979 as a marketing executive. Tesco was a resolute market follower of the two leading brands, Marks & Spencer as the then world's most profitable retailer, and Sainsburys as the world's most profitable food retailer. Leahy concluded that Tesco should stop following a strategy of catch-up and start leading through market knowledge, which led to his success in devising and implementing the Tesco Clubcard loyalty program and also successfully monitoring the shopping habits, movements, and political opinions of Clubcard holders. Leahy was appointed to the board in 1992, and in 1995 Tesco became the UK's biggest retailer.
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Karen Cook was appointed a Non-executive Director of Tesco PLC on 1 October 2004. She is a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International and... President of Goldman Sachs, Europe. She is also a member of the firm’s European Management Committee and Partnership Committee.
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Evan Mervyn Davies , Baron Davies of Abersoch, CBE is a former banker and was a UK government minister until May 2010. His role as Minister of State... for Trade, Investment and Small Business involved oversight of UK Trade and Investment - the United Kingdom's export support and inward investment agency - and he had dual accountability to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Lord Davies was Chairman of Standard Chartered PLC between November 2006 and January 2009, and Chief Executive between 2001 and 2006. He was appointed a Director in 1997. He is Vice Chairman and Partner at Corsair Capital and non-Executive Chairman of PineBridge. He is Senior Independent Director at Diageo, and Chair of the Advisory Board of Moelis and Co. He completed the Programme for Management Development at Harvard Business School and is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers. Lord Davies of Abersoch is the Chair of the Council of the University of Wales, Bangor . He is also a Trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts.
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