Retail chief Pitt to succeed Crowley at INM

Independent News & Media (INM) has turned to the retail sector for its latest chief executive; selecting Tesco’s Robert Pitt as successor to Vincent Crowley.

Mr Pitt — a graduate of UCD, with a BA in Economics — has held a number of senior management roles for supermarket groups over the past 20 years, including Lidl and Tesco, but also worked with PwC.

Based in the Czech Republic for a number of years, he joins INM from Tesco’s operations there, where he was most recently chief operations officer. He has also held senior management positions with Lidl in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ireland.