英伦广角 2014-07-26 英国最大连锁超市乐购CEO将离职

 He has been a Tesco lifer joined in as a 14 year old to stack shelves in the store run by his father, today three and a half years after his coverage¹ chief executive, Philip Clarke reached the check out of Britain's biggest retailer³, even his old boss thinks it's not before time.

When you occupy the biggest job in retailing⁴, you should expect if you don't perform to pay the price as he has done so, and he has to take responsibility, when you are chief executive, if things go wrong, it's down to you.

The statistics of Mr Clarke's time in charge make grim reading, 8 billion pounds has been wiped off the company's value during his tenure⁵, its market share has fallen 2.2% amid competition from discounters like Aldi, as this comparison of the two groups market share shows, and this morning the news of his exit sent Tesco shares up 2.5%, bucking⁶ the trend of the last three years, for the first time in its 95-year history, Tesco's replacing its boss with an outsider, David Louis of the consumer goods joint⁷ union labor⁸.

Tesco has gone shopping at the owner of Dove shampoo and domestic detergent⁹ for its new boss, but some investors¹⁰ believe that the employment of Mr Louis who has never before run a major retail² chain still represents something of a gamble.

Mr Louis's big challenge would be to restore customer's belief in Tesco's price competitiveness, while continuing to unwind some of its ill fated overseas expansion.

I think the first thing he has to do is to define the Tesco brand, because this is a brand that's lost his way in recent years, it doesn't stand for quality, it doesn't really stand for value, it's stuck in the middle, and as a retailer, that's the worst place to be, so i think that's the very first thing that Louis will have to do.

Mr Clarke's sacking came just 36 hours before he was to host a party marking four decades of service at Tesco, that has now been cancelled, the city faces an anxious wait to see whether being a Tesco share holder¹¹ can again becomes something worth celebrating.

1 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

2 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

3 retailer   

n.零售商(人)

参考例句：

• What are the retailer requirements?零售商会有哪些要求呢？
• The retailer has assembled a team in Shanghai to examine the question.这家零售商在上海组建了一支团队研究这个问题。

4 retailing   

n.零售业v.零售(retail的现在分词)

参考例句：

• career opportunities in retailing 零售业的职业机会
• He is fond of retailing the news. 他喜欢传播消息。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 tenure   

n.终身职位；任期；(土地)保有权，保有期

参考例句：

• He remained popular throughout his tenure of the office of mayor.他在担任市长的整个任期内都深得民心。
• Land tenure is a leading political issue in many parts of the world.土地的保有权在世界很多地区是主要的政治问题。

6 bucking   

v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的现在分词 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• a bucking bronco in the rodeo 牛仔竞技表演中一匹弓背跳跃的野马
• That means we'll be bucking grain bags, bustin's gut. 那就是说咱们要背这一袋袋的谷子，得把五脏都累坏。 来自辞典例句

7 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

8 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

9 detergent   

n.洗涤剂；adj.有洗净力的

参考例句：

• He recommended a new detergent to me.他向我推荐一种新的洗涤剂。
• This detergent can remove stubborn stains.这种去污剂能去除难洗的污渍。

10 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

11 holder   

n.持有者，占有者；(台，架等)支持物

参考例句：

• The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
• That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。