GOOD MONTH: SAINSBURY'S

摘要

Presiding over his first set of interims for supermarket giant Sainsbury, its recently appointed, CIMA-qualified chairman David Tyler had grounds to be upbeat. With total sales up 3.7% to£11.2bn and pretax profit up 32.6% to £342m: Tyler was justified in saying it had delivered a strong performance in the first half of the year.