Appointment of Sir Dave Lewis as CEO represents major coup for struggling FTSE 100 firm
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The executive credited with steering Tesco out of the worst financial crisis in its history has been handed the top job at the struggling Guinness maker Diageo.
On 1 January, Dave Lewis will become chief executive of the FTSE 100 drinks company, whose shares have fallen by a third this year.
Lewis ran Tesco from 2014 to 2020 and previously spent nearly three decades at Marmite maker Unilever. He revived Britain’s biggest supermarket after revealing an accounting scandal, which threatened the future of the business.
