New Tesco boss is not the obvious choice for chief executive | Nils Pratley

It’s a surprise that supermarket group did not recruit internally after Dave Lewis jumpedIf you want to wind up Dave Lewis, point to Tesco’s share price. It was 230p when he arrived in September 2014 and, after five years of effort that have prompted the chief executive to want to “recharge my batteries”, it has reached only 240p. All that struggle to go sideways?Lewis resents the share price comparison as much as he dislikes his “Drastic Dave” label and, actu