Tesco food MD Gordon Gafa to step down after 15 years
Tesco’s managing director of food, Gordon Gafa, is to leave the supermarket after 15 years.
He will step down from his role at the end of December.
Subscribe to TRBAccording to The Grocer, the news was announced to staff on 27 October by Tesco UK chief executive Ashwin Prasad, who praised Gafa for his key role in developing the supermarket’s relationships with suppliers.
A successor has yet to be announced, but Prasad told staff that Tesco’s commercial directors will now report to him with immediate effect.
Gafa joined Tesco in 2011 as a category sourcing manager. He then spent nine years moving up the ranks before taking up a secondment as director of trading for fresh food at Booker, Tesco’s wholesale business, in 2020.
He returned to Tesco in 2022 as commercial director for packaged products, fuel and tobacco, before becoming managing director of food in June 2025.
Earlier this month, Tesco adjusted its full year profit outlook after sales and profit both increased in its first half. In the 26 weeks to 29 August, sales rose by 2% to £33.8 billion as UK food like-for-like sales increased by 2.4%.
