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The chief executive officer of Tesco Plc received 4.7 million pounds ($ 5.7 million) last year after he helped steer Britain’s biggest grocer and private
sector employer through the Covid-19 pandemic.
Most of Ken Murphy’s bumper package was driven by performance-related bonuses for helping Tesco manage severe staff shortages, panic-buying and major supply chain blockages as Covid infections surged in Britain. Murphy’s basic salary was 1.52 million pounds in the year to February.
The remuneration details of Murphy, who joined Tesco in October 2020, were revealed in the supermarket’s annual report. News of the healthy pay award comes at a time when Britain’s grocers are facing the worst food price inflation in decades and pressure to increase the wages of staff facing a cost of living crisis.
Last month Tesco warned that profit will be squeezed this year as it battles to keep prices low for consumers struggling to pay higher energy and food bills. The grocer forecast retail adjusted operating profit will be between 2.4 billion pounds and 2.6 billion pounds in the current fiscal year, meaning earnings will show little change at best.
Chairman John Allan, who said Britain was “facing real food poverty for the first
time in a generation,†received flat remuneration of 695,000 pounds.