What the weekend papers said

Tesco’s company secretary tipped for CBI job

The company secretary of UK supermarket chain Tesco, Lucy Neville-Rolfe, is being tipped as a possible candidate to take over from Sir Digby Jones at the Confederation of British Industry, which is considering appointing its first female director-general, according to the Business Diary section of the Daily Telegraph.

Sainsbury set to overtake Asda, says Asda boss

Sainsbury may be about to overtake Wal-Mart’s Asda chain in UK supermarket sales, Asda chief executive Andy Bond told the Financial Times.

“We have bottomed out and Sainsbury is back up the ski slope,” Bond told the paper. “We have been neck and neck for some time and they may be about to overtake us.”

Asda to call for longer Sunday trading hours

Wal-Mart’s UK supermarket chain Asda will demand that Sunday opening hours in England and Wales be extended, allowing the it to create 7,500 new jobs, according to the Observer newspaper.

The government is considering changing the law to allow shops bigger than 3,000 square feet (288 sq meters) to open perhaps for an extra two hours. The issue is to be decided in 2006.