Supermarket king takes over at the BCC

Longworth will take over in September and replaces David Frost CBE, who has run the business organisation since January 2003. He has held a number of high-profile roles in business and public life, including stints as a senior executive at Asda and Tesco. He is currently a non-executive director of the Co-operative Group Food Ltd and Nichols plc, a member of the Competition Commission, and is active in both social enterprise and a Midlands-based venture capital-backed company, SVA Ltd. Longworth said: "I have personal experience of running businesses in the UK, large and small. So ...