Archive of all Tesco articles – Page 248

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    Supermarket parking limits spark storm of protests

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-03-25T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-03-25T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-03-25T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-03-25T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-03-25T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-03-22T08:14:00Z

    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

    2006-03-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-03-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-03-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-03-13T08:20:00Z

    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

    2006-03-11T00:00:00Z

    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...

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    New engineers to review Gerrards Cross project

    2006-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Speculation is rife that Tesco could be planning to ditch the development of its ill-fated store at Gerrards Cross. It has axed the Jackson Civil Engineering team that was originally employed on the project, where the railway tunnel at the...

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    Mason’s UK marketing work passed to Brasher

    2006-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Following weeks of speculation, Tesco has confirmed that its commercial and trading director Richard Brasher will succeed Tim Mason as the retailer’s director of UK marketing.Analysts put Brasher’s name straight to the top of a list of possible...

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    Fryett takes on Mason property role at Tesco

    2006-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has started to share out the responsibilities of its marketing and property director Tim Mason, who is moving to the US next year to head the retailer’s convenience store business venture.It has appointed Tesco Ireland’s chief executive...

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    Organic pineapples debut in UK supermarket

    2006-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Whole organic pineapples are now being sold at Tesco in a first for a UK supermarket.The pineapples come from the south of Togo, where they are grown in areas from the mountains to the coastal plains by family growers, each managing a small...