Allan Leighton spent five years running Asda between 1996 and 2001 - Eddie Mulholland for The Telegraph Struggling retailer Asda has sought to recapture its former glory by hiring ex-boss Allan ...

In addition to holding the CEO position at Asda from 1996 to 2001, Leighton has also led a number of UK and international consumer businesses, including Canadian retail group Loblaw Companies and ...

Leighton helmed Asda from 1996 to 2001 and is credited with turning around the struggling chain, alongside current M&S chair Archie Norman – pulling the grocer from the brink of insolvency to ...

TDR is best known as the owner of Asda, having taken over the supermarket in 2021 in partnership with petrol station ...

Leighton served as Asda CEO from 1996 to 2001, driving a turnaround with then chairman Archie Norman before the business was sold to Walmart for 6.7 billion pounds. Leighton also served as ...

Despite Asda's £5bn debt pile ... Greater Manchester, in 2001. As the oil companies began selling off and closing their High Street petrol stations to concentrate on production and refining ...

It marks a return to Asda House for the 71-year-old, who spent five years running the retailer between 1996 and 2001, during which he oversaw the company’s sale to Walmart in 1999. He ...