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• Tesco Ireland named Tony Keohane to be its new CEO, replacing Gordon Fryett, who has been in the job since 2001. Fryett moves over to take charge of what is termed Property Activities for Tesco in both the UK and Ireland.

Irish Senator Feargal Quinn, the founder of the Dublin-based Superquinn chain of supermarkets, has joined the National University of Ireland, Galway, as an adjunct professor of marketing.

Quinn’s first lecture this week: “Reflections on Business and the Senate.”
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