Ken Murphy news, comment and insight – Page 5
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NewsTesco slashes road miles with launch of tenth rail service
Tesco said its latest train route – from Daventry in the Midlands to Widnes in the north west – will see the retailer move 600k cases a week
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NewsTesco launches career clinics to help ‘lost workforce’
More than half (56%) of people surveyed in a poll of more than 1,000 jobseekers by the body said they didn’t feel equipped to compete in the job market
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NewsTesco exploring how AI could ‘nudge’ Clubcard customers
Generative AI had the potential to ‘revolutionise’ how supermarkets serve their customers, said CEO Ken Murphy
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NewsMedia Bites 18 September: Tesco AI, Brexit disaster, choccy horror, Pret success
Tesco is planning apply AI to customer data from its Clubcard loyalty discount scheme to “nudge” shoppers into making healthier choices and reduce waste
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NewsMedia Bites 27 August: Nestle, Unilever, M&S, Morrisons
There’s plenty of fmcg news to wade through from the long bank holiday weekend, with Nestle and Unilever in focus
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Category ReportHalloween trends 2024: How retailers can strike sales gold
Halloween is increasingly proving a goldmine – but can sales continue to grow? And what tactics are the retailers using?
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Grocer 33Tesco Extra, Chorley: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘We’re very much a destination shop within town – we are the shop that can pretty much offer anything’
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NewsGovernment commits to introduce standalone offence for attacking shopworkers
Retailers and trade bodies have welcomed the announcement, calling it a “crowning moment” for shopworkers who continue to suffer record levels of abuse and violence every day
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Comment & OpinionTesco’s Finest hour is still to come – a £1bn festive blowout could occur
Ken Murphy could be forgiven for cracking open a nice bottle of red, given barnstorming results of late from the expanded Tesco Finest collection
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NewsMedia Bites 15 July: Unilever, Tesco, Hotel Chocolat
Unilever is planning to cut up to 3,200 office jobs in Europe as its new chief executive presses ahead with drastic restructuring
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NewsCity snapshot: Tesco eyes another £1bn in Finest sales
Tesco is aiming to boost sales of its upmarket Finest own label range by an extra £1bn as it targets winning customers from Waitrose and Marks & Spencer
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NewsMedia Bites 17 June: Tesco, E. coli outbreak, Morrisons
Tesco continued to win market share and grow volumes in the first quarter, leaving the grocery giant on target to hit its full-year sales target of £70bn
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NewsCity snapshot: Tesco continues to grow UK grocery market share and volumes
Tesco has announced another ‘strong’ quarterly performance ahead of its AGM today, with UK market share gains and strengthening volumes
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NewsShareAction calls on Tesco to justify Ken Murphy’s £10m pay package
Murphy’s pay more than doubled last year, despite his fixed pay falling from £1.7m to £1.6m, with a bonus of £3.38m and shares worth £9.91m
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Analysis & FeaturesHow much are the top supermarket bosses paid?
From the lowest to the highest, here are the salaries of the UK’s leading supermarket bosses
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Analysis & FeaturesLabrador retail crime and Asda rebrand: this week on grocery social media
Asda unveiled a fresh rebrand and bread-stealing Labradors became Facebook celebs. What you missed this week on social media in the world of grocery
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Analysis & FeaturesWas Sunak’s summit enough to inspire supply chain confidence?
The second annual Farm to Fork Summit saw representatives from across the food sector gather at No 10 to hear the PM’s proposals
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NewsMedia Bites 15 May: Greggs, Tesco/Ken Murphy, Brexit borders
Rising wages continue to take a bite out of profit margins at Greggs
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NewsTesco boss Ken Murphy more than doubles his pay to £9.9m
Tesco CEO Ken Murphy saw his pay packet more than double last year to £9.9m as the supermarket’s executive team benefited from hitting performance targets and the vesting of share awards
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NewsMedia Bites 22 April: Asda, Unilever, Getir
Zuber Issa is close to selling his stake in Asda to TDR Capital in a deal that would tighten the private equity firm’s control over Britain’s third biggest supermarket chain