It’s more than 30 years since Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy joined the UK retail giant – and longer still since he scrubbed floors at its Wandsworth store in his school holidays. Now, on the day that he announced his long-anticipated retirement in March next year, just-style looks back at the career of a man described by his chairman as “one of the leading businessmen of his generation”.

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