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Tesco Ireland aims to catch up with UK
Tesco Ireland is to build a national distribution centre at Donabate in County Dublin, at a cost of €70m. The centre, due to be in operation by next April, will have a handling capacity of one million cases of goods a week. It will manage...
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Wine awards slammed
Tesco has defended wine awards in the face of criticism from food and wine taster Martin Isark that they are nothing but meaningless, money-making schemes.Winemakers can pay up to £120 for entry to such competitions, knowing there is a...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visitedMace Hamilton Express, Cregagh Road, County Antrim, NI Nisa, Chapel House Drive, Newcastle-upon-Tynesainsbury's Local, South Ealing Road, Londonspar, Freehold Road, Ipswich, Suffolktesco...
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Supermarkets head down quantity street
Retailers are slashing prices on some of the biggest Christmas confectionery brands, a move that could herald the start of festive season price wars in the category.The deep discounting has been initiated by Tesco and Sainsbury's, which...
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In Brief: Buttercup petition; U-turn on hygiene; Wiseman will fight
Buttercup petition Tesco took delivery of a petition from Farmers for Action last week, calling for a milk price rise. It was presented by about 30 activists and a Jersey cow called Buttercup. U-turn on...
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The Big Picture
Prunella Scales helped make Tesco great - but now she has defected to the cause of the small shopkeeper.Scales, who played domineering mother Dotty in a series of TV adverts for Tesco that ran for nearly ten years from 1995, is...
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World News - 4th November 2006
South Korea. Samsung Corporation has announced plans to sell its 11% stake in Tesco's South Korean operation, Samsung Tesco. Samsung said it would sell off 5% in 2007 and the remaining 6% later as part of a bid to focus on its core...
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Tesco to expand clothing range
Tesco has announced plans to expand its clothing range in-store, on its website and via a clothing catalogue.The retailer's fashion chief executive Terry Green said that he expected to boost clothing sales to £1bn next year, and was planning...
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Book reviews
Scoring Points: How Tesco continues to win customer loyaltyTesco Clubcard is the world's most successful retail loyalty scheme. Launched in 1995, it has transformed the company's relationship with its customers, helping it to...
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Price Survey
Tesco has scored a double whammy this week, adding the crown of cheapest supermarket to its Top Store customer service award. The victory is the second in a row for the retailer, which has fought back on prices after a long period of dominance...
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Tesco wants one market
Tesco is calling for the two-market definition of grocery retailing to be ditched in favour of a single market view, in a move that could leave it breaking ranks with its rivals and siding with small operators. The comments made in its...
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Own label, Fairtrade, organic in lead as premium sales soar
Own label products constitute two-thirds of premium grocery offerings sold and are enjoying growth ahead of the market as a whole. A study of Tesco Clubcard data by Channel 4, Dunnhumby and media surveying company TGI, indicated that an...
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The Europe Express
Check out Tesco. Or perhaps that should be 'Czech' out Tesco. It invited journalists to the Czech Republic and Turkey last week to see what it is doing in central Europe. In this land of low prices and high potential, Tesco has found that it's...
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Tesco denies landbank claim
Tesco has insisted the Competition Commission will not find any evidence that it has a so-called landbank designed to thwart rivals' attempts to build stores. In its submission, Tesco says its willingness to take risks to implement its...
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Bogof's week
Tesco pulled out all the stops in Turkey last week by taking one of our hacks out to dinner in a posh restaurant. But when his hosts came to pay they tried four or five credit cards and all were rejected. The team from Tesco had to have the...
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Price Survey
Tesco scored its first victory in The Grocer 33 this month, with Sainsbury displaced from its lead last week and Asda pushed into second place two weeks on the trot. Asda had come in cheapest in seven of the previous nine surveys, but...
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No smooth ride likely for Tesco in India
Tesco's entry into India may not be the smooth ride hoped for as a new local supermarket operator with a UK influence looks set to become the country's leading food chain.The brand proposition behind Reliance Retail, which has plans for...
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UK beef farmers await assurances from Tesco
The NFU has been left waiting for assurances from Tesco that it is committed to UK livestock farmers, after the beef price in the south west fell 12p/kg over three weeks."We've seen some volatility in the market. This has fuelled rumours...
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Tesco hits accelerator with central sourcing
Tesco is to more than double the number of grocery lines it sources centrally by February.Speaking at a tour of Tesco's 12,000 sq m hypermarket in Prague, Philip J Clarke, CEO for the Czech Republic and Slovakia, said the move, which...
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Price Survey
Sainsbury's edged out Asda and Tesco in this week's The Grocer 33 price survey - but it was mighty close. The winning margin was a razor-thin 10p for our 33-item basket of goods. Sainsbury's led at £46.88, followed by Asda...