By Rhys Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Low-cost airline easyJet <EZJ.L> said John Barton, chairman of British fashion retailer Next <NXT.L>, would become its new chairman next month, as the carrier plans to expand its fleet. Barton, 68, who is also chairman of insurance group Catlin <CGL.L>, will need to manage fractious relations with founder and largest shareholder Stelios Haji-Ioannou and ensure growth continues at Europe's second-largest budget airline by passengers after Ryanair <RYA.I>.

By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco <TSCO.L>, Britain's biggest retailer, is expected to report its first fall in underlying annual profit in two decades, reflecting the cost of a turnaround plan launched after last year's shock profit warning. The group, the world's third largest retailer after Wal-Mart <WMT.N> and Carrefour <CARR.PA>, was one of Britain's most consistent companies in terms of earnings growth until it issued the profit alert in January 2012.

By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - After a decade pushing its non-food business, Tesco <TSCO.L>, Britain's biggest retailer is changing, and a conspicuous focus on fresh produce greets shoppers at its newly styled superstores. "Customers were saying they felt we didn't have the right products in our shop," said Kiran Sudan, store manager at the recently refurbished Kensington superstore in west London, whose catchment area is a multi-cultural mishmash of affluent dwellings and social housing.

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced sweeping changes in financial regulation on Wednesday, telling banks they can no longer blame customers when products go wrong and promising to study how consumers behave to make sure they can make the right decisions. The FCA is one of two new agencies launched this month to replace the Financial Services Authority and rewrite the rules for a financial industry brought low by the 2008 crisis and years of costly misbehaviour.