Tarry, who has 33 years of retail experience at Tesco including six as the supermarket's UK & Ireland boss, will take up the role in September, John Lewis said on Monday.
When the John Lewis Partnership appointed Dame Sharon White as its sixth chairman in 2019, it admitted that the former Ofcom chief and civil servant was not “the conventional retail choice”.
John Lewis wants to put smoke vents in the “worst possible location” within its new London tower block, firefighters have said, in a fresh headache for the retailer as it expands into property.
John Lewis will return to profit this year, its chairman Dame Sharon White has said, as the retailer prepares to cut as many as 11,000 jobs as part of a drastic turnaround plan.
John Lewis: A minimum of 10% of the staff-owned business's workforce could be affected across the group's head office, supermarkets and department stores, the report said, citing sources.
A senior employee at John Lewis has condemned “personal attacks” by staff as the department store chain battles to contain a backlash over changes to redundancy pay.
John Lewis and Marks & Spencer both sell upmarket, high quality food to the middle classes. They combine that with some reliable, if not terribly exciting clothes.
If they’ve made it though to lunchtime today, they’ve put in a good shift for the year. According to the High Pay Centre, that is the amount of time it takes the average FTSE 100 chief executive to earn the salary of an average worker.