Sainsbury Adds Former GUS Executive To Chairman Shortlist-Report
28 Juni 2009 - 3:29PM
Dow Jones News
U.K. grocer J Sainsbury PLC (SBRY.LN) has added former GUS
executive David Tyler to the shortlist of candidates to replace
outgoing chairman Philip Hampton, the Sunday Telegraph reports
without citing sources.
Tyler was finance director at GUS, which later spun off its
Argos retail business to form Home Retail Group, between 1997 and
2006, and is chairman of IT company Logica PLC (LOG.LN).
He joins a shortlist of around three candidates, the paper
reports, one of whom is understood to be John Peace, chairman of
Burberry Group PLC (BRBY.LN), Experian PLC (EXPN.LN) and acting
chairman of Standard Chartered PLC (STAN.LN).
The paper also said Niall FitzGerald, the deputy chairman of
Thomson Reuters Corp. (TRI.T) and former Reed Elsevier PLC (REL.LN)
chief executive Crispin Davies, both of whom have been linked with
the job, are not currently candidates to replace Hampton.
Sainsbury on May 13 said it is conducting a search, led by
senior independent director John McAdam, to replace Chairman Philip
Hampton, who recently took up the same post at troubled Royal Bank
of Scotland Group PLC (RBS).
Sainsbury was not immediately available to comment.
-By Kathy Sandler, Dow Jones Newswires; 44-207-842-9293; kathy.sandler@dowjones.com