All articles by Ian Quinn – Page 191
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News
Tesco launches special Pride t-shirts
The clothing will be sold in 15 stores along the parade route in London and is also available online for £6
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Events & Awards
Britain's Favourite Supermarket: Tesco
Here is recognition, surely, of the value and the goodwill among British shoppers towards Britain’s biggest grocer…
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Business rates warning for government
Official bodies suggest that unless radical changes are made to the business rates system, businesses could face a 60% rate of tax by 2022
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco's momentum needs staff to buy into restructuring
In a big week for the supermarket giant, Ian Quinn outlines the challenges they’re still facing
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Tesco sheds 1,000 in-store management jobs as staff shake-up is revealed
Team leaders that decided to stay will face pay reductions of around a fifth of their pay as they move to alternative roles
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Coca-Cola Enterprises reveals plans to slash 10% of calories by 2020
Coca Cola Enterprises has announced plans to cut calories across its entire portfolio by 10% in the next five years.
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BRC calls for government clarity over business rates
Group admits government does not have enough time to draw up new roadmap before 2017
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Diet confusion reigns as consumers trim the fat
“There continues to be confusion as to what being healthy really means and what foods you should and shouldn’t eat”
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ACS calls for big changes to current business rates system
Most retailers would prefer to stick with the property based system of business rates, rather than change to a fundamentally new basis of taxation
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Tesco takes new CTO from Expedia
Mesrobian is a replacement for Mike McNamara, who left Tesco after 16 years in February to join US retailer Target
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Boots to cut 700 backroom jobs
The high street chemist giant said it needed to transform to adapt to the “rapidly changing” needs of consumers
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Analysis & Features
Hoax is a lesson in the dark arts and bad science of junk food
Last week hoaxers came clean about a study - reported across the globe - that claimed eating a chocolate bar a day accelerated the weight loss of a low-carb diet
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News
Tritax Big Box REIT snaps up Tesco Goole regional DC for £50m
Real estate investor Tritax Big Box REIT has bought the Tesco regional distribution centre at Capitol Park, Goole…
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Tesco's Dave Lewis vows to eradicate all edible food waste
Tesco boss Dave Lewis this week threw down the gauntlet to rivals to join its commitment to banish food waste…
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FDF head Wright calls out NHS boss over sugar claims
New FDF director general Ian Wright has called for a face-to-face meeting with NHS boss Simon Stevens – and accused him of likening sugar…
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Tesco launches trial of 'ground-breaking' scheme to cut food waste
Tesco today (4 June) launched what it claimed was a ground-breaking step to ensure edible food waste from its stores was redistributed to charities…
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Obesity is 'new smoking' says NHS boss
NHS chief executive Simon Stevens says suppliers and retailers need to step up their efforts to make food healthier
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France supermarket food waste law piles pressure on UK
The crackdown comes in a country which already redistributes 20 times more food to charity than the UK
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Food waste: don't blame consumers, expert tells retailers
“There needs to be a shift away from passing the blame on to the consumer and to looking more at the retail and supply chain issues”
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Aldi and Lidl move to front in distribution space race
A report for The Grocer shows the two discounters have more than 80,000 sq ft of distribution floor space in planning