Retail Leadership Voices

Running Singapore’s largest supermarket chain, renowned for its purpose and social mission, comes with its share of challenges and opportunities. CEO Vipul Chawla tells Malini Vidaya about his first few years in post, as well as his experiences as president of Pizza Hut International and how his early years as a marketer helped shape his approach to the CEO role.

Michael Medline recently announced his plan to retire as CEO of Canada’s Empire Company. In conversation with Carter Powis, he reflects on the “job he has loved” and shares the lessons he learned from a career shaped by transformations, acquisitions and the importance of treating colleagues —all 128,000 of them — as “teammates.”