the data analytics agency that runs Tesco's Clubcard rewards scheme as well as similar programmes at other retailers. That agency is currently wholly owned by Tesco, but has been identified as a non-core

Interpublic's Initiative outpost in the UK is at stake with Tesco's decision to review media, which that agency has handled for some 20 years, and which accounts for at least half of its local business.

completing a triumvirate of three former Tesco executives as chairman, chief executive and CFO of the #4 UK grocery retailer. In the news this past week: Agencies A higher tax charge, finance costs

Former Tesco finance director Andy Higginson, Morrisons' new chairman, will lead the search, which will almost certainly be for an external candidate. Aldi UK's Simon Barnes is the bookies' favourite

Also in the UK, Tesco's new CEO Dave Lewis recruited Matt Davies, previously head of bike retailer Halfords, to lead the retailer's core UK division. Davies' predecessor was one of several dismissed last