Tesco news and analysis – Page 214
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Crackdown on illegal workers targets food
The Home Office has kicked off a summer crackdown on illegal working in the food industry with a raid at a Tesco supplier in London. The UK Borders Agency, part of the Home Office, will visit 100 businesses a month in London alone as the...
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NewsTesco touches down in Glasgow for debut airport store
Tesco has chosen Glasgow as the location for its first store at a UK airport.
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Grocer 33: Tesco service makes up for out-of-stocks
Although it did not have the best availability, Tesco in Craigmarloch, Lanarkshire, offered the best overall customer service. A pleasant assistant made conversation as she helped our shopper to find the right shelf for lasagne verdi...
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Tesco Express scraps duty manager role
Tesco Express stores will scrap the role of duty manager in a major shake-up of senior management. Staff at the 1,000 sites have been told there will be a 90-day consultation period during which duty managers can apply for the new role...
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NewsTesco plots global F&F chain
Tesco will take its F&F clothing brand worldwide if the first standalone store in Prague is a success.
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NewsGrocer 33: Homepage
The Grocer 33 is a weekly mystery shopping survey, tracking price, service and availability at the five leading grocery retailers: Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose. The charts (left) show the scores from this week's survey. But if you click on the relevant chart you can find out all the details: the ...
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Brian Ford’s makes way for new Tesco
Brian Ford's Discount Store, which was the UK's biggest independent grocery store until it was secretly bought by Tesco, has served its last customer. The 38,000 sq ft store in Barnstaple was bulldozed days after its closure.
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Irish retailers plug the gaps left by Tesco
Rivals in the Irish market are cashing in on the disappearance of several popular brands from Tesco shelves as the company sources more products in the UK. Superquinn has gone public in acknowledging that it now stocks many of the...
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Tesco: scale duty to boost sales of lower-abv wines
The head of beer, wine and spirits at Tesco is calling for a shake-up of wine duty to boost growth of lower-alcohol wine, The Grocer can exclusively reveal.Speaking at the launch of a Finest Vintage 2000 wine range last week, Dan Jago...
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NewsTesco takes on Primark with West End clothing store
Tesco is planning to launch a standalone clothing store in London’s West End.
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NewsTesco on back foot over rainforest paper claims
Tesco has been forced on to the defensive amid claims that a supplier of paper products is involved in illegal logging in the Indonesian rainforest.
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NewsSustainability must be top of the agenda, says Leahy
At the Consumer Goods Forum Global Summit, grocery leaders urged the industry to step up its efforts tackling climate change. Michelle Perrett reports
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NewsEditor's Comment: Sir Terry's retirement shows his impeccable timing
My local independent newsagent complains that I always write about Tesco in this column. He's going to be disappointed again, I'm afraid, after another very busy week for the UK's biggest and most important retailer.
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NewsTesco ad campaign celebrates quality of own-label lines
Tesco's advertising will switch tack on Monday to focus on the quality of its own-label products.
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NewsSir Terry blasts ‘unimaginative’ rivals
Outgoing Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy has claimed “a failure of imagination” is behind rivals’ inability to close the gap on the UK’s largest retailer.
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NewsGrocer 33: Tesco pips Asda by less than a pound
Tesco pipped Asda to the post this week by just 98p and claimed its first victory in the new Grocer 33 year.
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Tesco and Bacardi link for branded ice cubes
Tesco, Bacardi and the UK's biggest ice cube supplier claim to have brought the first bag of booze-branded ice cubes to the market - just seven weeks after the idea was mooted.
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Careers File: Tesco's new boss must bring IT and HR together like never before
Much has been made of the international experience of Philip Clarke, who will succeed Sir Terry Leahy at the top of Tesco from next...
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Fresh & Easy’s local sourcing boosted by new California hub
Tesco is to open a new sourcing hub in California to buy local wines and foods for its worldwide operations.
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NewsWaitrose seizes five supermarket sites in the Channel Islands
Waitrose has beaten Sainsbury's, Tesco and Asda to the punch in the Channel Islands.