Tesco news and analysis – Page 248
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Price Survey - 7th July 2007
After four weeks at the top, Asda has plummeted to third position in our weekly basket survey, losing out to Tesco and Morrisons. The multiple can blame its relegation partly on the end of its offer on red seedless grapes, which shot up in price...
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Tesco rides to rescue of south LA's food desert
Tesco has announced it is to move into an area of Los Angeles that has been dubbed a "food desert" since the infamous riots there in 1992.A Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is to open in south LA by the end of the year as Tesco's plans...
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Why outlook for grocery is grim
The latest interest rate hikes will have affected shoppers' spending and for multiples offering non-food items, sales may start to wobble Tesco's share price has come under severe pressure in the past fortnight. Its comments at the...
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Arla milk contract forces farm to sell
The UK and Arla's biggest dairy farmer has sold up because he was not offered a high-value contract to supply Tesco, it has emerged.The sale of David Barnes' farm near Carlisle, which produces 18 million litres of milk a year, raises...
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Morrisons calls on inquiry to challenge Tesco's dominance
Morrisons has told the Competition Commission it is wrong to focus on supermarket power at a local level - and has demanded it takes steps to check Tesco's national dominance.In its latest submission to the inquiry, Morrisons said it...
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Ross takes up chair at Food Northwest
Former Iceland boss and one-time Tesco distribution director Stuart Ross has become the first chairman of Food Northwest - the food and drink arm of the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA).His job with the organisation -...
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Tesco China in mobile phone store deal
Tesco has teamed up with Chinese mobile phone retailer EBT Mobile to open mobile phone stores within its Hymall hypermarkets in China.EBT Mobile will open seven mobile phone stores in the next few weeks, the first of which will open in a...
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our man from drip Don Pumsey - 23rd June 2007
Truth is the first casualty of any war, and the current spat between Tesco and Asda (with itsy bitsy cameos for JS and Morrisons) is no exception. In this spirit, the Pumster bravely went over the top before you could say "bullshit". I think Darling...
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Price Survey - 23rd June 2007
The supermarket price war intensified this week as Asda, Tesco and Morrisons all entered the fray with price cuts. Asda has won the first battle since it became the cheapest supermarket for the 10th year in a row a fortnight ago, with a £48.28...
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Tesco's dawn patrol triumph - Q&A and Availability
At 7am in the loading bay of Tesco's Sheldon store, near Birmingham, there is a daily scene of such good-natured co-operation that it could be a contender for a new, and less celebrity-obsessed, Tesco TV advert. Because the 20,000 sq ft outlet is...
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Come on Commission, be decisive and do your job
If the Competition Commission does not act decisively this time round, Britain risks being turned into a one-supermarket stateThe forthcoming Tesco agm will be a focus not just for the supermarket's established critics but also a new and...
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Vietnam and Middle East are next on list for global giants
Vietnam and the Middle East are set be the next targets for investment from international multiples such as Tesco, Carrefour and Wal-Mart, according to AT Kearney's Global Retail Development Index.The management consultant's index ranks...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visitedbudgens Tolworth, Surreyco-op Combs Ford, StowmarketOne stop Highbridge, SomersetSpar Uphall Station, West Lothian TESCO Express Stockport, Greater ManchesterHow they...
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Organic food increases sales for Tesco
Tesco has reported first quarter figures rose 4.7 % in like-for-like sales - excluding fuel rose- in the 13 weeks to May 26, marking a slowdown from the previous quarter.The company said first-quarter sales increased after expanding its...
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allan Leighton on...
Sir Terry Leahy CEO, Tesco Terry came in as one of the first professional marketers in retail. He is incredibly effective - the measure of that effectiveness is the performance of the company. When he presents, he presents in a...
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Tesco first for rhubarb beer
Greene King is to roll out a beer flavoured with rhubarb when an exclusive listing with Tesco runs out.Ruddles Rhubarb saw off competition from 63 other brews at the recent Tesco Beer Challenge to win an exclusive summer listing with the...
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britain's favourite supermarket Tesco: Dominates in range, service and stock
For the second year running, Tesco has taken the shoppers' votes for Britain's favourite supermarket. In a repeat of last year's result Tesco pipped Asda and Sainsbury's. And although its nearest rivals have closed the gap slightly, they...
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Browett takes over the hot seat at DSG
Tesco operations and IT development director John Browett is to become the new group chief executive of electronics giant DSG International, which owns Currys and PC World.Browett left his job at Tesco last week and is currently...
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Clubcard's Gleason to join Nectar card group
Nectar has enlisted the help of a Tesco Clubcard specialist to help it better exploit its data.Peter Gleason, former managing director of retail media at Dunnhumby - the customer insight specialist behind Tesco's Clubcard data analysis...