Archive of all Tesco articles – Page 219
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Christmas trading good insists Tesco
Tesco was putting a positive spin on its Christmas performance this week, despite its latest trading figures showing UK sales falling short of expectations. Like-for-likes were up 3.1%, excluding petrol, for the six-week period to 5...
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Blackhurst is tipped for Cheesewright job
Darren Blackhurst is emerging as the most obvious internal candidate to replace David Cheesewright as Asda's chief operations officer.Blackhurst joined Asda's executive board as food trading director in January 2006 from Tesco, where he...
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Price Survey - 19th January 2008
Price-slashing Tesco has thrown everything into the mix to match Asda's food prices this week, but it was not enough to prevent Asda recording its 14th week as cheapest retailer. Tesco cut the prices of six items on this week's list, five of which...
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Woolworths rounds off team 'made in heaven'
Woolworths now has a management team 'made in heaven' after poaching Tesco's former international chief operating officer Simon Turner, according to chief executive Trevor Bish-Jones.Turner will become retail and distribution operations...
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Fresh & Easy's Ford heads Peter Rabbit
Children's food brand Peter Rabbit Organics has appointed former Tesco Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market operations manager Ben Ford as its new chief executive. Ford has spent the past two years in Tesco's international division, working...
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star order
The winner of this quarter's Star Order award for shopping excellence is Asda.com, which replaces Tesco as The Grocer's top online retailer. The Asda.com website was found to be very simple to navigate with clear instructions.
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the house of lancaster
If there's a question mark over the future of cheap food, the grocers don't seem to be taking much notice. Asda and Tesco have set out their stalls to match the hard discounters' low prices, albeit with more frills. And, ironically perhaps, one...
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Ocado's service gives online shoppers a merry Christmas
Ocado provided the best service of all the online grocers over Christmas - and Tesco the worst - according to research carried out exclusively for The Grocer. Mystery shoppers used by eDigital Research placed 36 orders with the major...
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Select & Save cuts 60 everyday prices
Symbol group Select & Save has introduced a round of price cuts designed to turn up the heat on rivals Tesco and Bargain Booze. The group has cut the prices of 60 everyday grocery items for a three-week promotion starting this month. The...
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What the papers said - 12th January 2008
The Daily Telegraph reported on Tesco's secret conversion of a former warehouse into a mock German discount store. It suggested the retailer was testing ways of competing with stores such as Aldi and Lidl. According to the Daily Mail major...
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Dieting and health get separate Tesco ranges
Tesco is launching a new diet sub-brand this week in the first strike by one of the major supermarkets to win over the new year healthy pound. The unveiling of the 250-strong Light Choices range comes as Tesco relaunches its Healthy...
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Tesco tops the big Xmas ad spenders
Tesco was the biggest spender on advertising in grocery retailing over the Christmas period, The Grocer can reveal. The UK's largest retailer ploughed £18.6m in festive advertising, pipping Morrisons which spent £18.29m, according to...
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Tesco starts 2008 with a bang - Q&A and Availability
Maintaining well-stocked shelves between Christmas and New Year has proved a challenge for retailers, but Tesco's Sale branch in Greater Manchester provided a full basket to win the first Top Store award of 2008. The 50,000 sq ft town centre store...
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Price Survey - 5th January 2008
Asda has started the new year with its grip on the title of Britain's cheapest retailer showing no sign of weakening in what has been a quiet week for price changes. Although Morrisons and Tesco matched 26 and 27 of Asda's prices respectively, Asda...
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Morrisons recruits own label execs
Morrisons has poached two senior executives from Asda and Tesco to spearhead a product development drive to transform own label.It has appointed head of Asda brand product Simon Mitchell and Tesco's Central European product development...
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Tesco bids for Czech chain
Tesco is bidding to become the largest grocery retailer in the Czech Republic after putting in a €200m (£144m) bid for the Plus discount chain, according to reports.Czech daily newspaper Mladá Fronta Dnes said Tesco had put in the...
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Six-month price, service & availability review
Asda's low prices have dominated The Grocer 33 for the past six months but it's Morrisons not Tesco that is challenging it, however, to be Britain's cheapest retailer. In the first half of 2007, Tesco came closest to stopping Asda's run...
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Tesco third-cheapest retailer behind Asda and Morrisons
Morrisons has beaten Tesco on price to become Britain's second-cheapest supermarket behind Asda over the past six months.While Asda's average weekly basket came out cheapest at £44.51, the half-year review of The Grocer 33 shows...
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Price Survey - 15th December 2007
Asda remains the cheapest retailer in the run up to Christmas - but Tesco put up a strong fight, consigning Morrisons, the usual runner up, to third place. Asda's £41.79 basket, which was just 35p cheaper than Tesco's, boasted seven of the cheapest...
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What the papers said - 15th December 2007
Tesco has complained to the OFT about property website Rightmove for refusing to list its properties. Tesco launched its home-selling service, Tescopropertymarket.com, in June in an attempt to undercut estate agents but has struggled to crack the...