Tesco - Latest News and Analysis – Page 241
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Retailers dobattle to exploit demand for TVs
The major multiples are ramping up activity on home entertainment ranges, with both Tesco and Asda stocking up on LCD televisionsElectrical appliances geared towards home entertainment are proving big business for the...
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Tesco talks beef with 'friends'
Tesco has held crisis talks with beef farmers and processors about how it will secure future stocks of beef.The retailer convened a meeting of leading suppliers last week to discuss supply arrangements for beef against a backdrop...
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Tesco launches toolkit
Tesco is launching a religious toolkit for staff next month. The kit includes a religious calendar outlining all the major festivals and days of importance for the major religions in the UK. It is designed to give staff more...
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World News - 8th April 2006
Tesco in South Korea...Cadbury sells...Constellation buy...Fyffes in India...Wal-mart and the poor...Pathmark struggles...Russian talks. Tesco has put in a bid for Carrefour's 32 South Korean stores. It is up against...
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Supermarket parking limits spark storm of protests
Supermarkets are fighting a barrage of parking-related protests after introducing restrictions that local traders claim will kill business. A petition signed by 18 traders in Ware, Hertfordshire, has been sent to Tesco bosses after...
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Extra hassle from Slough
Tesco's store development in Slough is courting controversy again. This time the retailer is being accused of trying to "sterilise" the Berkshire town's retail space. Slough Borough Council has criticised Tesco for failing to do...
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In Brief: Non-exec director; Carlisle joins E&J; Lewis for Carlsberg
Non-exec director Liz Doherty, Tesco's group international finance director, has been appointed a non-executive director for SABMiller. It said that Doherty's experience in international markets and consumer goods companies would enable her to make...
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Tesco, Sainsbury draw battle lines over labels
Tesco and Sainsbury have drawn battle lines over traffic light labelling with both using high-profile advertising to state their opposing cases. Tesco has been forced to defend its decision to press ahead with guideline daily...
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How tesco can fight back
You have to feel sorry for Tesco. It's a hugely successful business that is great at delivering what consumers want and yet it gets vilified by the anti-supermarket brigade for pretty much everything it does. Whether through organised web sites,...
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Own label at a premium
Sainsbury, Tesco and Asda are gearing up for a battle in premium own label this year as they overhaul upmarket lines in a bid to take a bigger slice of the lucrative £4.5bn market.Sainsbury is concerned that its 850-strong Taste...
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Tesco branches out into boutique wines
Tesco hopes shoppers will fork out up to £100 a bottle for its new range of premium wines.The retailer is adding 50 boutique wines to its current 750-strong stable.Prices start at £10, with most in the £15 to £25...
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Doing it by the book
Tesco is planning to pitch itself against Argos and department stores with a new catalogue business. What factors might stand in the way of yet another success story, asks Glynn DavisJust as it was with its move into the US, Tesco is...
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Bid to raise global sourcing
Tesco is aiming to cut costs by increasing its international sourcing and looking at new supply markets such as Turkey.Richard Brasher, Tesco's commercial and trading director, has told analysts and investors that it was aiming to...
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World News - 25th March 2006
Global tesco...Metro up 3.3%...Unilever, Conagra sell...Wal-mart in China...Colgate-Palmolive buys in US...Topvar deal...McCormick blow. Tesco is eyeing entry into India and expansion of its presence in China. Reports...
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Leahy joins business group
Sir Terry Leahy, chief executive of Tesco, has been asked to join an international business advisory group set up to advise the government on how the UK can attract more investment from international companies.Sir Terry, who joins a panel of...
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Multiples promise to make their online prices more transparent
The major supermarkets have agreed to offer online customers clearer pricing information following a long-running investigation by the OFT.The OFT said Asda, Sainsbury, Tesco and Waitrose did not make it sufficiently clear on...
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M&S set to dig in with Gerrards Cross store
Marks and Spencer could be preparing to rub salt into Tesco's wounds by beating the chain to open a store in Gerrards Cross.Tesco is developing a store in the town but had to put its plans on hold after a tunnel beneath the site...
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Tesco closes in on Asda price
Tesco has more than halved the price gap between itself and Asda, according to data from The Grocer 100 and The Grocer 33 shopping surveys.With just three months left to go before The Grocer 33's End Of Year Review in June,...
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Tesco should declare land bank
Tesco should declare the extent of its land bank of undeveloped sites waiting to be built on, an MP has said.Danny Alexander, Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness, said that he would write to the Competition Commission to call for Tesco to...
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Farmers hope for finer prices
Tesco is expected to unveil fresh details of a forward contract scheme for suppliers of beef to its Finest and organic ranges at a meeting taking place in Gloucester next month.The initiative was originally announced at the beginning of...