Only days into his new job, Ken Murphy presented his first set of result as boss of Tesco last week — and they weren’t a bad way to start (Ashley Armstrong writes). Britain’s biggest retailer has been encouragingly resilient through the coronavirus pandemic. The question now is: what will he do next?
Whatever it is, he will have to go some to match the dramatic early efforts of Dave Lewis, his predecessor. Shortly after his arrival, Mr Lewis, 55, had to set about reviving the supermarkets group after an accounting scandal, selling off assets, including its interests in South Korea, and ditching distractions such as Giraffe, the restaurant chain, and Dobbies, the garden centres business.
After firefighting for the first three years of his
