UK's Morrisons says 200 jobs at risk from head office restructure

Tesco

14/04/2026 14:07

LONDON, April 14 (Reuters) - British supermarket group Morrisons plans to cut around 200 head office roles as part of a cost-cutting restructuring, it said on Tuesday.

The group, owned by U.S. private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, said the restructuring, which started last year, aimed to "streamline processes and structures, automate a number of manual tasks and capitalise on the potential of data and AI to improve performance".

200 jobs represents about 8% of the headcount at Morrisons' head office in Bradford in northern England. A consultation process with impacted workers has begun. In total the group employs about 95,000.

Morrisons noted "the current very challenging market conditions".

Data from market researcher Worldpanel, published last month, showed Morrisons' sales growth continuing to underperform that of bigger rivals Tesco TSCO.L and Sainsbury's SBRY.L.

(Reporting by James Davey; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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