Ken Murphy news, comment and insight
Ken Murphy has been CEO of Tesco PLC since 2020. He was previously COO at Walgreens Boots Alliance. Murphy won The Grocer Cup in 2025. The Grocer covers Murphy and Tesco in news, comment and analysis.
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Analysis & FeaturesSupermarket price wars: how are rivals answering Asda’s cuts?
Tesco has ramped up its pricing fightback against Asda, cutting 3,352 SKUs in a month as the supermarket giant defends its market share
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Comment & OpinionCan mandatory health reporting succeed with ‘two-tier approach’?
Yesterday The Grocer revealed Nesta was urging ministers to push ahead with mandatory reporting and targets, beginning with the top 11 supermarkets with a phased approach for the OOH sector
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NewsTesco bolsters Whoosh service with Just Eat deal
The deal will see the supermarket leverage Just Eat’s white-label delivery service Just Eat Go
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NewsTesco brings full-basket shopping to Whoosh
Order sizes for Whoosh deliveries had been restricted by the size and weight that could be safely carried on the back of a moped
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Grocer 33‘Irrational’ Asda cheaper than rivals by 5.5% in price comparison survey
Asda’s £74.98 basket was 2.9% cheaper month on month after it dropped the price of 956 items last week
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NewsAsda steps up price cuts campaign adding more than 200 fresh lines
The latest round follows more than 1,000 price cuts announced by Asda last week, as executive chairman Allan Leighton steps up his efforts to restore ‘Asda Price’ in a bid to win back shoppers ahead of Christmas
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NewsTesco’s former reusable packaging partner calls for regulation on plastic
Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle and boss of pioneering reuse sytem Loop, said France’s experience had shown a combination of regulation and funding incentives could help the industry move from ‘pointless pilots’ to a full-scale rollout
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NewsBooker performs ‘ahead of expectations’ as core retail drives sales
Booker added 257 net new retail partners in the first half of 2025
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NewsTesco share price gathers momentum as supermarket enters golden quarter from position of strength
Shares shot up 4.5% today to a near-12-year high of 449.2p as markets lapped up a bullish statement by CEO Ken Murphy asserting that the supermarket had built on already strong momentum in the first half to 23 August
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NewsTesco CEO Ken Murphy hits out at rivals’ irrational price cuts
‘Some competitors went pretty strong at the start of the year with their statement of intent and they’ve acted on that,’ said Murphy. ‘It doesn’t feel that rational from where I’m sitting’
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NewsTesco raises profit guidance after strong summer sales
Britain’s biggest supermarket cut its profit guidance earlier this year due to a looming price war
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NewsSupermarket model makes food strategy ‘unachievable’ claims green body
Supermarket bosses have strongly defended the model, saying it has been consistently looked into and approved by competition watchdogs
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NewsTesco staff get safety app to help them get to and from work safely
Using AI technology, the app will allow up to 300,000 staff to raise the alarm if they feel in danger, with automatic checks if they fail to arrive on time
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InterviewsElise Seibold: ‘Suntory failed its customers in 2024’
Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I COO Elise Seibold on how the Ribena and Lucozade supplier plans to bounce back from an ‘extremely difficult’ 2024
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NewsMore than 100 large supermarkets ‘at risk of closure’ thanks to business rates reforms
The changes will also hand an advantage to the discounters thanks to their smaller stores
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InterviewsHow Joanna Allen got freefalling Little Moons back in control
After a tumultuous year, Joanna Allen is rebuilding Little Moons one ‘quick win’ at a time
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InterviewsHow Katie Secretan is steering Nisa to its new life as Co-op Wholesale
MD Katie Secretan is steering the Nisa business into its new life as Co-op Wholesale. She talks pricing, own label and a ‘promiscuous wholesale market’
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NewsTesco and Sainsbury’s chiefs join calls for Rachel Reeves to rethink business rates reforms
Tesco Group CEO Ken Murphy and Sainsbury’s CEO Simon Roberts said it would worsen the plight of high streets by undermining the investment from larger retailers who act as anchors for footfall
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InterviewsHow has Tesco changed under Ken Murphy in the past five years?
After winning The Grocer Cup last week, Group CEO Ken Murphy outlines how Tesco has changed in the nearly five years since he took on the role
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Comment & OpinionGrocer Gold Awards celebrates industry’s inspiration and hard work
The awards recognise the big hitters, as well as the efforts of the hidden heroes who work tirelessly behind the scenes