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class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>, London, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Willesden_Jewish_Cemetery" title="Willesden Jewish Cemetery">Willesden Jewish Cemetery</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Grocer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Sarah (Cissie) Fox</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1924)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2, including <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Porter" title="Shirley Porter">Shirley Porter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hyman_Kreitman" title="Hyman Kreitman">Hyman Kreitman</a> <small>(son-in-law)</small></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight:bold;">Military career</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" 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href="/wiki/Tesco" title="Tesco">Tesco</a> <a href="/wiki/Supermarket" title="Supermarket">supermarket</a> chain. His company is the market leader of groceries in the UK, and the third-largest retailer in the world measured by gross revenues in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After serving in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Flying_Corps" title="Royal Flying Corps">Royal Flying Corps</a> in the First World War, Cohen opened a market stall in <a href="/wiki/Hackney,_London" title="Hackney, London">Hackney, London</a> in 1919. The first Tesco store opened in Edgware, north London, and by 1939 he had more than 100 stores, including the first stores outside London. He then floated the company onto the <a href="/wiki/London_Stock_Exchange" title="London Stock Exchange">London Stock Exchange</a> in 1947. As chairman of Tesco Stores (Holdings) Ltd. Cohen was <a href="/wiki/Knight_Bachelor" title="Knight Bachelor">knighted</a> by Queen <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a> in 1969. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_and_private_life">Early and private life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Cohen_(businessman)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early and private life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cohen was born in <a href="/wiki/Whitechapel" title="Whitechapel">Whitechapel</a> in the <a href="/wiki/East_End_of_London" title="East End of London">East End of London</a> and grew up at 91 Ashfield Street.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His family were Jewish: his father, Avroam Kohen, was a Polish immigrant from <a href="/wiki/%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA" title="Łódź">Łódź</a> who worked as a tailor, and his mother was Sime Zaremba.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was named Jacob but was known as Jack from an early age.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was educated at Rutland Street School until he was aged 14 and then began his working life as an apprentice tailor to his father.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mother died in 1915 and his father remarried.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1917, he volunteered to join the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Flying_Corps" title="Royal Flying Corps">Royal Flying Corps</a> where he used his tailoring skills as a canvas maker for balloons and other aircraft.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served in France, and also in Egypt and Palestine.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 1917, he was on board <a href="/wiki/HMS_Osmanieh_(1906)" title="HMS Osmanieh (1906)">HMS <i>Osmanieh</i></a>, a passenger and cargo ship that had been taken over by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> as a supply ship and <a href="/wiki/Troopship" title="Troopship">troopship</a>. The vessel had sailed from <a href="/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton">Southampton</a> carrying soldiers and medical personnel. But just as it reached its destination, <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a> on the 31st, it struck a mine that had been laid at the harbour entrance a few days earlier by the German submarine <a href="/wiki/SM_UC-34" title="SM UC-34">SM <i>UC-34</i></a>. The ship sank in less than seven minutes with the loss of 209 people, including soldiers, nurses, ship's crew and the ship's captain.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cohen survived, thanks to a nurse who helped him stay afloat in the water.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ryle2013_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ryle2013-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He returned to England after contracting <a href="/wiki/Malaria" title="Malaria">malaria</a>, and was demobilised in 1919.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He married Sarah (Cissie) Fox, daughter of an immigrant Russian-Jewish tailor, in 1924.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cissie was a great supporter of her husband's business interests, so much so that the money they received as wedding gifts was invested in a wholesale venture.<sup id="cite_ref-EH_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EH-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had two daughters, Sybil Irene (1926–2005) and <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Porter" title="Shirley Porter">Shirley</a> (born 1930).<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Irene married <a href="/wiki/Hyman_Kreitman" title="Hyman Kreitman">Hyman Kreitman</a> (1914–2001) and Shirley married Leslie Porter (1920–2005).<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cohen formally changed his name from Jacob Kohen to John Edward Cohen by <a href="/wiki/Deed_poll" title="Deed poll">deed poll</a> in July 1937.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He continued to work after a <a href="/wiki/Colostomy" title="Colostomy">colostomy</a> operation in 1958, standing down as chairman of Tesco in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died on 24 March 1979 at the age of 80 in <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a> and is buried in <a href="/wiki/Willesden_Jewish_Cemetery" title="Willesden Jewish Cemetery">Willesden Jewish Cemetery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Facelift_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Facelift-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Cohen_(businessman)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cohen was reluctant to return to tailoring after the First World War, and he established himself as a market stall holder in <a href="/wiki/Hackney_Central" title="Hackney Central">Hackney</a>, in London's East End, by purchasing surplus <a href="/wiki/NAAFI" class="mw-redirect" title="NAAFI">NAAFI</a> stock with his £30 demob money.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EH_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EH-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At each market the traders would gather and, at a signal, they would race to their favoured pitch. Cohen could not run fast so he simply threw his cap at the spot and this could beat anyone.<sup id="cite_ref-Aris_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aris-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He soon became the owner of a number of market stalls, and started a <a href="/wiki/Wholesale" class="mw-redirect" title="Wholesale">wholesale</a> business.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Initially the other stalls were run by members of the family, but gradually non-family members were added. Cohen and his wife Elizabeth worked seven days a week, starting at dawn and counting money until late.<sup id="cite_ref-Aris_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aris-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1924, he created the Tesco brand name from the initials of a partner <a href="/wiki/Tea" title="Tea">tea</a> supplier, T. E. Stockwell (formerly Messrs Torring and Stockwell of <a href="/wiki/Mincing_Lane" title="Mincing Lane">Mincing Lane</a>), and the first two letters of his surname.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The market trading business became difficult to expand because partners tended to be unreliable, so eventually he changed to high street shops without doors, looking and sounding as far as possible like market stalls.<sup id="cite_ref-Aris_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aris-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first two Tesco stores opened at <a href="/wiki/Becontree" title="Becontree">Becontree</a> and <a href="/wiki/Burnt_Oak" title="Burnt Oak">Burnt Oak</a> in 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1939, Cohen owned a hundred Tesco stores.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His expansion was helped by the growth of new shopping centres. Retailers are often reluctant to be the first to sign a contract in a new centre lest they become the only ones. With his market experience and courage, Cohen was often the one to take that risk and he had ways of drawing a crowd. Developers became keen to help him with his start-up costs because of his ability to get people into a new centre, benefiting the other shops.<sup id="cite_ref-Aris_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aris-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first Tesco bank account was opened at the <a href="/wiki/Midland_Bank" title="Midland Bank">Midland Bank</a> in the Narroway, Mare Street, <a href="/wiki/Hackney,_London" title="Hackney, London">Hackney</a>. A plaque in the branch later marked this event. On 2 July 1937 he changed his name by deed poll to John Edward at the suggestion of his bank manager, whose staff had trouble distinguishing between the many Jacob Cohens banking at the branch in Hackney.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1932, having opened his first Tesco-branded shops,<sup id="cite_ref-EH_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EH-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cohen travelled to the United States to review their self-service supermarkets. At the time he was not impressed and felt they would never be accepted in the UK. After the war he took another look and listened to his son-in-law Hyman Kreitman, who was very keen. He opened one of the first British supermarkets. The new strategy was led by Kreitman, who understood how to manage this new style of shop and the crucial tasks of mass buying, selling and logistics. Tesco grew strongly. It gradually drew ahead of its rivals and took over many of them.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Aris_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aris-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He expanded the company by takeovers and mergers, making it the fourth largest chain in the United Kingdom by 1968 (behind <a href="/wiki/Co-op_Food" title="Co-op Food">Co-op</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fine_Fare" title="Fine Fare">Fine Fare</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Allied_Suppliers" class="mw-redirect" title="Allied Suppliers">Allied Suppliers</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He campaigned against <a href="/wiki/Retail_price_maintenance" class="mw-redirect" title="Retail price maintenance">retail price maintenance</a>, tackled in the second half of the 1960s by the <a href="/wiki/Resale_Prices_Act_1964" class="mw-redirect" title="Resale Prices Act 1964">Resale Prices Act 1964</a>, and was a leading instigator of the <a href="/wiki/Green_Shield_trading_stamps" class="mw-redirect" title="Green Shield trading stamps">Green Shield trading stamps</a> scheme in 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Cohen_(businessman)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_JACK_COHEN_1898-1979_Entrepreneur_Founder_of_Tesco_Stores_lived_here_as_a_child.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Sir_JACK_COHEN_1898-1979_Entrepreneur_Founder_of_Tesco_Stores_lived_here_as_a_child.jpg/200px-Sir_JACK_COHEN_1898-1979_Entrepreneur_Founder_of_Tesco_Stores_lived_here_as_a_child.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Sir_JACK_COHEN_1898-1979_Entrepreneur_Founder_of_Tesco_Stores_lived_here_as_a_child.jpg/300px-Sir_JACK_COHEN_1898-1979_Entrepreneur_Founder_of_Tesco_Stores_lived_here_as_a_child.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Sir_JACK_COHEN_1898-1979_Entrepreneur_Founder_of_Tesco_Stores_lived_here_as_a_child.jpg/400px-Sir_JACK_COHEN_1898-1979_Entrepreneur_Founder_of_Tesco_Stores_lived_here_as_a_child.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Blue plaque in <a href="/wiki/Whitechapel" title="Whitechapel">Whitechapel</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Cohen was appointed <a href="/wiki/Knight_Bachelor" title="Knight Bachelor">Knight Bachelor</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1969_New_Year_Honours" title="1969 New Year Honours">1969 New Year Honours</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was master of the <a href="/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Carmen" title="Worshipful Company of Carmen">Worshipful Company of Carmen</a> in 1976–77.<sup id="cite_ref-odnb_3-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odnb-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sir John and Lady Cohen supported a range of charities in Britain and in Israel, giving their name to the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Care" title="Jewish Care">Jewish Care</a> facility, Lady Sarah Cohen House, at <a href="/wiki/Friern_Barnet" title="Friern Barnet">Friern Barnet</a>, north London.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009, an <a href="/wiki/English_Heritage" title="English Heritage">English Heritage</a> <a href="/wiki/Blue_plaque" title="Blue plaque">blue plaque</a> was placed at 91 Ashfield Street, <a href="/wiki/Whitechapel" title="Whitechapel">Whitechapel</a>, London, where Cohen lived as a child.<sup id="cite_ref-EH_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EH-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, Tesco founded a new discount chain named after Cohen, called <a href="/wiki/Jack%27s_(store)" title="Jack's (store)">Jack's</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc-19-sept-2018_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-19-sept-2018-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-the-guardian-19-sept-2018_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-the-guardian-19-sept-2018-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg-19-sept-2018_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg-19-sept-2018-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, the name T.E. 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