UK retailer Morrisons today (13 December) announced it would promote Trevor Strain to replace Richard Pennycook as finance director.

Strain, who has worked in senior financial roles at Morrisons for three years, will succeed Pennycook, who announced in June he would leave the UK’s fourth-largest grocer after seven years with the business.

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Strain joined Morrisons as commercial and operations finance director in 2009 from Tesco, where he had worked since 2002. He became Morrisons’ finance director, corporate in 2011.

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