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Britain’s Tesco pledges to end all-white board

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LONDON: The chairman of Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, on Friday pledged to end the all-white make-up of its board of directors.


The supermarket group’s current board has 14 members, three are women, and all are white.


Its 12-person executive committee is also all white.


Tesco is Britain’s biggest private sector employer with more than 310,000 staff.


“Tesco is actually... in very good shape in terms of diversity as far as our customer base, our colleagues, many layers of management are concerned,” chairman John Allan (pictured) told shareholders at the firm’s annual meeting in response to an investor question.


“We aren’t there as fully as we need to be at the moment on the board,” he said.


Allan said he was personally engaged in finding candidates that would provide more visible evidence of Tesco’s commitment to racial diversity and inclusion on the board.


“I’ll be very disappointed if by next year’s AGM we haven’t cracked that,” he said.


“I’ve managed it at Barratt (Developments), where I’m also the chairman, I’ve recruited an extremely talented woman, Sharon White, to join the board there and that’s a great symbol to the rest of the company.” — Reuters


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