News / Fomer DHL exec John Allan named as new Tesco chairman

19/02/2015

John Allan, the British logistics executive who oversaw the €5.5bn sale of Exel to DHL in 2006 and was subsequently named chief financial officer of DP-DHL, has been appointed as chairman of UK supermarket group Tesco.

Currently the country’s largest grocery retailer, Tesco has been under fire for the best part of two years, culminating in last year’s accounting scandal which saw it mis-state its profits to the tune of some £263m, and which has resulted in an ongoing investigation by ...