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Are you sitting down? Brace yourselves ...! Supermarket group Wm Morrisons has just appointed two non-executive directors. The group has long been a corporate governance maverick, preferring to rest its corporate performance in the hands of the family business executive chairman Sir Kenneth Morrison, two joint MDs and four other executive directors. But in this ...

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