Tesco - Latest News and Analysis – Page 204
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Tertiary Tesco: It’s a brand, Jim, but not as we know it...
Tesco’s new tertiary brand ranges aim to fight off the advance of the discounters. But do they run the risk of confusing consumers, asks Chloe Smith
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Tesco boosts selection of organic meat
Tesco has boosted its organic portfolio by increasing the range of Helen Browning meats it stocks and adding a new leg meat product. As well as doubling listings of Browning’s Organic Speedy Sausages to 200 stores, the supermarket has introduced...
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Tesco pulls sweets in wake of China milk scare
Tesco has withdrawn from sale a line of Chinese sweets known as White Rabbit Creamy Candies as the fall-out from the China milk scandal continues to spread.
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Editor's Comment: Do the big four really need to reinvent themselves as discounters?
With the collapse of Lehman Bros, a bumper worldwide wheat harvest, the return of tertiary brands at Tesco, and Asda’s launch of a 5,000-strong product price war, events threatened to supersede our special Green Issue this week. But saving the...
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Tesco hits back with ‘discounter in every store’ tertiary lines
Tesco has brought back the tertiary brand, with the biggest new range since Tesco Value was launched in 1993. The introduction of Discounter Price and Market Value products was revealed on thegrocer.co.uk on Monday before hitting stores on...
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Sunderland Arc continues with Tesco site plans
A lengthy row over the development of a site owned by Tesco in Sunderland has taken another twist. Sunderland Arc, a regeneration company run by Sunderland Council, has advertised for a developer in the hope that work can finally get under way. It...
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Good value ad drive by Co-op Group
In the same week that Tesco and Asda launched an all-out price war on value lines, The Co-op Group launched a campaign to prove it’s also good value. The society doubled its usual press activity to trumpet its A Great Deal Locally campaign with...
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Advertising: Tesco diverts ad spend to non-food
Supermarkets’ expansion into an ever-increasing range of non-food categories is something that, rather like Sunday opening, we now take for granted. Visit a larger store and the chances are that the first thing you come face-to-face with is books, clothes and homeware rather than fruit and veg.
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Grocer 33: Tesco's staff give Banbury store a win
Tesco’s Banbury branch excelled in customer service and availability, to scoop this week’s Top Store award. There were lots of staff available around the tidy store who proved most helpful, walking our customer to the items she needed.
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Tesco vs Asda: what the papers say
There is no shortage of coverage about the big news of the last two days - first, as exclusively revealed by thegrocer.co.uk, Tesco launches its new discount ranges. Then Asda goes one better by slashing the prices of thousands of products, while chief Andy Bond tells us food inflation has ...
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Asda trumps Tesco discount move
As revealed on thegrocer.co.uk (15 September), Tesco this week launched a new range of 350 discounted items in response to the recent gains made by discounters such as Aldi and Lidl. But the news was trumped yesterday when Asda signalled a major price war by slashing the cost of 5,000 items, including every product in its Smart Price range, as Asda chief executive Andy Bond said food inflation had peaked.
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Tesco in bid to become 'Britain's biggest discounter'
The "biggest ever launch", to be unveiled this week, will see Tesco become "Britain's biggest discounter", The Grocer can exclusively reveal. A completely new 350-strong range of low-cost products features two new lines: 'Market Value' will be a new fruit and veg line, while the second line, dubbed 'Discounter', includes ...
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QSM label moved to front of Tesco pork
Tesco has moved the British Quality Standard Mark on to the front of pork packs to underline its support for struggling British pig producers. The supermarket previously included the marque on the backs and sides of packs, but has now printed some...
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Suppliers shocked as own-label blitz launched on brands
Branded suppliers were left reeling this week as Tesco and Sainsbury’s both launched concerted campaigns promoting their own-label ranges at the expense of brands. Sainsbury’s announced a massive Switch & Save campaign, across all media, that will...
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NewsGrocer 33: Asda remains cheapest for a third week
Asda has retained the cheapest retailer title for a third week running, seeing off a resurgent Tesco with a relatively comfortable £1.95 lead
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Making the most of the multiples
How much of the market do the multiples command? According to Mintel they now account for more than 50% of sales, while TNS says they have a 61% share by value, headed by Tesco then Asda, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, the hard discounters and...
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Tesco secures local sweetcorn supply
Barfoots of Botley has struck a deal with Tesco to supply locally grown sweetcorn to stores in southern England. Local sweetcorn went into Hampshire and Sussex Tesco stores last weekend, while Isle of Wight sweetcorn was launched into the...
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Questions raised over how local Tesco’s produce really is
Environmental groups and independent retailers have poured scorn over Tesco’s local food claims. This week, Tesco reported a 40% year-on-year increase in sales of locally sourced food, and claimed to be on track to generate £500m in sales of local...
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NewsGrocer 33: Price Survey - week of 30 August 2008
Asda saw off a strong challenge from Morrisons to retain the title of cheapest retailer for a second week, after it seized the crown from Tesco last week. Just 95p separated Asda from nearest rival Morrisons, despite Asda being cheapest on more...
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Saturday essay: This milk price war is bad for shoppers and farmers
Tesco claims it is taking the profit hit on its new ‘discount’ milk. If that’s so, it won’t last for long – spelling trouble for dairy farmers. The launch of Robert Wiseman’s Fresh’n’Lo in all Tesco stores last week spurred great media interest and...