Great Britain: Morrisons launches university training for managers

While logistics are becoming increasingly complicated in retail trade, the Morrisons supermarket chain is offering its sales supervisors a degree in management and logistics. (Ref. 120636)
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One hundred places. Morrisons, the supermarket chain, recently created its own university training program that will be delivered through the Logistics Institute at Hull University Business School (eastern England). After an internal recruitment process in which several hundred employees took part, about 100 staff were chosen to follow the part-time course. The latter will be made up of classes to improve leadership skills and logistics knowledge. The first cohort due to graduate in July 20

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