The Co-operative Group is the UK’s biggest mutual retailer. As well as running food retail and wholesale operations, is the country’s largest funeral business and probate provider. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about the Co-op and the grocery sector.
A vote will be held in early May, which, if approved, will mean 300,000 members from the southern society will join an enlarged Co-operative Group.
The Co-op’s outgoing chief executive took home nearly £2m ahead of her unexpected exit last month.
Following Shirine Khoury-Haq’s resignation last week, Retail Week looks at the runners and riders in the race to replace her as group chief executive at the c-store specialist.
Convenience specialist the Co-op is set to give staff an above-inflation, 3.5% pay increase from tomorrow, Retail Week can reveal.
Like-for-like grocery inflation held at 4.3% for the second month in a row, Worldpanel by Numerator said, though financial anxiety is running high in the UK.
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