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U.K. grocer J Sainsbury PLC (SBRY.LN) has added former GUS executive David Tyler to the shortlist of candidates to replace outgoing chairman Philip Hampton, the Sunday Telegraph reports without citing sources.

Tyler was finance director at GUS, which later spun off its Argos retail business to form Home Retail Group, between 1997 and 2006, and is chairman of IT company Logica PLC (LOG.LN).

He joins a shortlist of around three candidates, the paper reports, one of whom is understood to be John Peace, chairman of Burberry Group PLC (BRBY.LN), Experian PLC (EXPN.LN) and acting chairman of Standard Chartered PLC (STAN.LN).

The paper also said Niall FitzGerald, the deputy chairman of Thomson Reuters Corp. (TRI.T) and former Reed Elsevier PLC (REL.LN) chief executive Crispin Davies, both of whom have been linked with the job, are not currently candidates to replace Hampton.

Sainsbury on May 13 said it is conducting a search, led by senior independent director John McAdam, to replace Chairman Philip Hampton, who recently took up the same post at troubled Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS).

Sainsbury was not immediately available to comment.

   -By Kathy Sandler, Dow Jones Newswires; 44-207-842-9293; kathy.sandler@dowjones.com