Supermarket founder Sir Ken Morrison, who led the company for more than half a century, has died aged 85.
He transformed Morrisons from a small family business into one the of UK’s largest food retailers.
At his retirement in 2008, Morrisons had 375 stores and served more than 9m customers a week.
Morrison was awarded the CBE in 1990 and knighted in the Millennium New Year’s Honours list for services to the food retailing industry.
Morrisons chairman Andrew Higginson said: “Taking Morrisons from a small Bradford-based family business to a major UK grocery retailing chain is an outstanding achievement in the history of UK business.
“On a personal level, Ken was an enormous help to me as we made some significant changes to set the business on a new course; his knowledge of retail and his strategic insights have remained as relevant and intuitive as they were when he first built the business.”
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