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A tumultuous year for the UK grocery market has led to a number of changes at the top as retailers seek to restructure their management teams. Retail Week’s Grocery Watch keeps track of all the biggest moves.

Grocery moves

Tesco

Ins

Name	Position	Start date
Dave Lewis	Chief executive	September, 2014
Alan Stewart	Finance director	September, 2014
Richard Cousins	Non-executive director	November, 2014
Mikael Ohlsson	Non-executive director	November, 2014
John Allan	Chairman	March, 2015
Matt Davies	UK chief executive	May, 2015
Byron Grote	Non-executive director	May, 2015
Michelle McEttrick	Group brand director	May, 2015
Edmond Mesrobian	Chief technology officer	June, 2015
Adrian Letts	Managing director, online	August, 2015

Outs

Name	Position	Finish date
Laurie McIlwee	Finance director	April, 2014
Mike Iddon	Group finance director for planning, treasury and tax	June, 2014
Philip Clarke	Chief executive	July, 2014
Sir Richard Broadbent	Chairman	October, 2014
Kevin Grace	Commercial director	November, 2014
Carl Rogberg	UK finance director	November, 2014
John Scouler	UK food commercial director	November, 2014
Chris Bush	UK managing director	December, 2014
Stuart Chambers	Head of remuneration committee	December, 2014
Echo Lu	Head of group business planning and insight	December, 2014
David Hobbs	The group business planning and strategy director	December, 2014
Matt Atkinson	Chief creative officer	January, 2015
Steve Strachota	UK operations and development director	January, 2015
Richard Baker	Managing director central	January, 2015
Neil McCourt	Managing director Tesco Metro	January, 2015
Mike McNamara	Head of global IT	February, 2015
Olivia Garfield	Non-executive director	February, 2015
Jacqueline Tammenoms Bakker	Non-executive director	February, 2015
Sean McCurley	Head of convenience	February, 2015
Gareth Bullock	Non-executive director	March, 2015
Simon Belsham	Online director	March, 2015
Michael Holmes	Chief executive of new food experiences	March, 2015
Philip J Clarke	Chief executive, Tesco Ireland	March, 2015
Patrick Cescau	Non-executive director	April, 2015
Ken Hanna	Non-executive director	June, 2015
Stuart Chambers	Non-executive director	June, 2015

Morrisons

Ins

Name	Position	Start date
David Potts	Chief executive	March, 2015
Darren Blackhurst	Group commercial director	June, 2015
Tom Richardson	Meat category director	August, 2015
Gary Mills	Group retail director	August, 2015
Irwin Lee	Non-executive director	September, 2015
Belinda Richardson	Non-executive director, chair of audit committee	September, 2015
Clare Grainger	Group HR director	September, 2015

Outs

Name	Position	Finish date
Dalton Philips	Chief executive	February, 2015
Nick Collard	Group customer marketing and digital director	March, 2015
Martyn Fletcher	Group retail director	March, 2015
Gordon Mowat	Group property and strategy director	March, 2015
Neal Austin	Group logistics director	March, 2015
Nigel Robertson	Convenience managing director	March, 2015
Casper Meijer	Group trading director	April, 2015
Tim Bettley	Commercial director of clothing	April, 2015
Crawford Davidson	Customer director	April, 2015
Emily Lawson	Group HR director	June, 2015
Philip Cox	Non-executive director, chair of audit committee	October, 2015

Asda

Outs

Name	Position	Finish date
Mark Ibbotson	Chief operating officer	February, 2015

Sainsbury’s

Ins

Name	Position	Start date
David Keens	Non-executive director	April, 2015

Outs

Name	Position	Finish date
Helen Buck	Business development director	July, 2015

The Co-operative

Ins

Name	Position	Start date
Allan Leighton	Non-executive chairman	February, 2015
Simon Bourne	Chief information officer	February, 2015
Ian Ellis	Chief financial officer	March, 2015
Jon Church	Director of communications	March, 2015