PETER Marks, chief executive of Co-operative Group, said he is to retire next May but that his departure would not derail the integration of Lloyds TSB Scotland into the mutual.
Mr Marks is leaving just months before the launch of Co-operative's assault on the Scottish banking market following its acquisition of 189 branches north of the Border to add to the four it currently operates.
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