Tesco - Latest News and Analysis – Page 217
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Escaping the traps of trade investment
A llegations of unreasonable retrospective pricing by Asda and Tesco have brought trade promotion practices back into the spotlight, yet fear of reprisals means suppliers are unlikely to complain publicly. A new survey from Grant...
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Tesco's 2020 vision
Will consumers trust big business? Will the world economy go bust? Will multi-storey car parks be turned into allotments? There's no need to spell out how invaluable being able to accurately forecast how the world will look in 15 years...
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Tesco's 16% fall is not justified
The stock market is now valuing Tesco as an average company. It is anything but. So why has its share price fallen 16% in recent months?In these troubled times for the stock market it's surprising that the industry bellwether, Tesco, has...
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What the papers said - 1st September 2007
Tesco is adding thousands of new products to its Tesco Direct website. According to the Mail on Sunday, the retailer is increasing pressure on rivals such as Argos by launching a new 1,000-page catalogue next month. Products will include...
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Retailers face animal rights threat
Thousands of tubes of Savlon have been removed from the shelves of Tesco, Boots and Superdrug after The Animal Rights Militia claimed they had injected a number of the products with bleach.The group posted an internet message stating...
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Smoke or mirrors in retrospective inquiry?
As the Competition Commission prepares to wade through an estimated 11 million emails, and thousands of phone calls, from Asda and Tesco and its suppliers, the inquiry appeared this week to have reached a pivotal moment. Has it found the smoking gun...
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How I learned not to be a Luddite and love Tesco
The co-founder of Cook may have gone from Tesco basher to Tesco lover but he's not so sure about a business model focused obsessively on shareholder returns As someone who co-owns a fiercely independent food company based on principles pretty much...
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Organic group won't work if price too low
Farmers have criticised Tesco's plans for a dedicated organic beef producer group on the ground it offers too low a price. Tesco has joined forces with key supplier the Chitty Food Group to create the Organic Beef Farmers Association in a bid to...
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Chains ban staff from using Facebook site at their desks
Bosses at Britain's biggest three supermarket chains have banned office staff from accessing social networking site Facebook while at work. Senior executives at Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's have ordered IT teams to block access to the site as part of...
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Hot topic - somehow Tesco is able to appeal simultaneously to ethical and cost-conscious shoppers
Raw material prices are rising fast, and the British farming lobby has done a superb job mobilising consumer and political support. Gordon Brown has instructed retailers not to take advantage of foot and mouth. And, in a move that demonstrates how...
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Price Survey - 25th August 2007
It's just like old times in The Grocer 33 at the moment with Asda extending its run as the cheapest retailer to a third week. Asda provided a £40.68 basket, which was £1.39 cheaper than runner-up Tesco, although the rival retailers had the same...
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Tesco signals end to £2 chicken with price rise
Tesco has responded to widespread criticism of cheap chicken by raising the amount it pays its chicken farmers. It has agreed to pay chicken producers an extra 2p/kg - equivalent to a 4% increase - to help counter rising production costs. The move...
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Dobbies issues profits warning
Dobbies garden centre has issued a profit warning just five days after Tesco gained control of the 21-strong chain.The Scottish gardening group, in which Tesco now has a 53% stake, said rain had hit sales of garden furniture, plants and...
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Tesco increases market share
Tesco has increased its share of the grocery market to 31.8%, despite grocery market growth slowing to 3% in the three months to the end of August.According to TNS data market growth was down from a 6% high in May, due to a slowdown in...
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Tesco and Asda bullying claims investigated
The Competition Commission is investigating claims Tesco and Asda bullied suppliers into cutting their prices to finance their price wars.The Commission has ordered the supermarkets to hand over all internal emails, taped telephone...
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Local food makes its English debut in Tesco Express store
Regional food and drink manufacturers could be in line for a bonanza after Tesco began selling locally sourced products in a convenience store in England for the first time. A new Tesco Express store in Falmouth, Cornwall, is stocking 76...
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Tesco bogof on Magners a fresh blow to Irish firm
Irish drinks group C&C and its embattled Magners brand has been dealt a fresh blow on its own doorstep by Tesco, which has been offering the cider - sold under the brand name Bulmers in the Republic of Ireland - at a knockdown price. In a...
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... as Parfetts muscles in on convenience with Local 4U
Parfetts Cash & Carry has unveiled its long-awaited debut in convenience retailing at a site bought last year to stop Tesco snapping it up. The wholesaler has officially launched the Local 4U concept at the company-owned site in New Mills, near...
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Fight for Dobbies intensifies
Dobbies Garden Centre CEO James Barnes has accused Scottish entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter of trying to scupper Tesco's takeover of the chain.Dobbies agreed a 1,500p a share offer from Tesco in June but the supermarket is battling to gain...