Alistair Grant

Sir Matthew Alistair Grant FRSE (6 March 1937 – 22 January 2001) was a British businessman.

The family moved to Bradford and he finished his education at Woodhouse Grove School in Yorkshire.

He received a commission in the Royal Signal Corps whilst serving his National Service, with a view to thereafter go to Edinburgh University.

[3] He rose to be Chief Executive of the Argyll Group from 1986 to 1998, including taking over the "Safeway" chain in 1987.

This brought an effective end to the career of Jimmy Gulliver but Grant went on to great success expanding Safeway to the point where it became the third largest retail chain in Scotland.