Nisa Chief Executive Neil Turton has revealed that he has plans in his last six months before leaving the company to make Nisa more devolved in Scotland – replicating a model in Northern Ireland where buying and logistics are organised by a team in the province, and not in Nisa’s Scunthorpe HQ.
Speaking at the SGF Conference in Glasgow last week, Turton said the model in Northern Ireland proved that a local team could successfully run an operation.
“There is more patriotism in Scotland since the referendum so we want to act up on that,” he said. “More [Nisa] decisions could be made in Scotland. I’m challenging ourselves to become more local.”
Nisa currently has 236 stores in Scotland with 77 members. The company opened a massive distribution centre near Bathgate in 2011.
