Tesco news and analysis – Page 254

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    Tesco 'collusion' stunner

    2006-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Nisa-Today's launched a scathing attack on Tesco when it met the Competition Commission, it has emerged. In what could be the most damaging evidence yet to come out of the Commission's grocery market investigation, Nisa-Today's...

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    Tesco 'collusion' stunner

    2006-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Nisa-Today's launched a scathing attack on Tesco when it met the Competition Commission, it has emerged.In what could be the most damaging evidence yet to come out of the Commission's grocery market investigation, Nisa-Today's...

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    In Brief: Carluccio's expands; Tesco to the rescue; A Humphrys grilling

    2006-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Carluccio's expands Café and grocery chain Carluccio's is eyeing 100 sites as part of a major expansion programme. This week the company announced a pre-tax profit of £3.4m, up 6%. Sales were £45.8m, up 24%, for the year to 24...

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    Fairtrade fans boosting nuts

    2006-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Tesco is extending its Fairtrade nut offer. It claims more than 13,000 farmers in Malawi, Mozambique and India will benefit from the decision to launch a 200g Fairtrade peanut and raisin mix and Fairtrade natural cashews in 150g...

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    Fairtrade fans boosting nuts

    2006-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Tesco is extending its Fairtrade nut offer.It claims more than 13,000 farmers in Malawi, Mozambique and India will benefit from the decision to launch a 200g Fairtrade peanut and raisin mix and Fairtrade natural cashews in 150g...

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    Bogof's week

    2006-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Bogof was in Scotland last week for the launch of Tesco's new eco-friendly superstore at Wick. Unfortunately, when he landed at Inverness at 10pm ready for a 6am drive up to the remote superstore the next morning he discovered his luggage had...

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    Bogof's week

    2006-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Bogof was in Scotland last week for the launch of Tesco's new eco-friendly superstore at Wick. Unfortunately, when he landed at Inverness at 10pm ready for a 6am drive up to the remote superstore the next morning he discovered his luggage had...

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    Greenpeace guns for beam trawling

    2006-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Greenpeace ratcheted up the pressure on multiples to improve fish sourcing policies by "displaying" hundreds of dead fish and crabs at store entrances.Tesco, Asda and Morrisons in Oxford were targeted in two days of protest this week and...

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    Injury worries spark store ban on Heelys

    2006-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Youngsters who whizz around on their 'Heelys' - shoes with wheels fitted to the soles - have been banned from Tesco's 90-plus stores in Ireland. Company bosses took action after receiving customer complaints. Notices alerting people of...

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    Impartial voices badly needed

    2006-12-09T00:00:00Z

    SIR; Liz Hamson's piece on planning highlighted a number of serious problems with the UK's planning system. One of the biggest has to be conflict of interests. The article mentioned Darlington, where councillors recently voted against a Tesco...

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    Impartial voices badly needed

    2006-12-09T00:00:00Z

    SIR; Liz Hamson's piece on planning highlighted a number of serious problems with the UK's planning system. One of the biggest has to be conflict of interests. The article mentioned Darlington, where councillors recently voted against a Tesco...

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    Top-Up shop

    2006-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Who we visited. Spar, Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey. Kwik Save, The Paddock, Handforth, Cheshire. Best One Ditton Hill, Long Ditton, Surrey. Scotmid Co-op East Main Street, Uphall, West Lothian. Tesco Express,...

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    The people's planopoly

    2006-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The battle lines have been drawn. On one side are Friends of the Earth, local community groups and small independent retailers. They accuse Tesco et al of: browbeating local authorities with "legalised bungs" (aka planning gains); submitting...

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    A passage to India delayed, not cancelled

    2006-12-02T00:00:00Z

    You would have thought Tesco would be hurting. With its aspirations plainly aimed at foreign shores, the news that Wal-Mart has successfully wooed Bharti Enterprises, beating Tesco into India, should have come as a blow. IGD estimates the Indian...

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    Wal-Mart beats Tesco to India

    2006-11-27T00:00:00Z

    Wal-Mart has beaten Tesco to India, linking up with Indian telecommunications giant Bharti Enterprises in a joint retail venture. Tesco had been one of the retailers, together with Wal-Mart and French retailer Carrefour, in line for the...

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    Tesco planning biggest supermarket yet in UK

    2006-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Tesco is seeking planning permission for the UK's biggest supermarket yet. It is set to apply to Croydon Council in south London for permission to increase its Purley Extra from 82,000 sq ft to 139,000 sq ft. Tesco's largest supermarket...

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    Try before you buy

    2006-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Its slogan is 'Your neighbourhood grocery store' and its emphasis is on every day low prices, but you can't mistake this giant of natural food retailing for your local Tesco. The US's second biggest natural food retailer doesn't stock many...

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    Top-Up shop

    2006-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Who we visited. Total Bonjour, Surbiton, Surrey. Nisa, Woodford, Manchester. Midlands Co-op Measham, Derbyshire. Londis Surbiton, Surrey. Tesco Express, Clifton, Bristol. How they performed. Our...

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    Non food

    2006-11-18T00:00:00Z

    You can have your toast and eat it. If you shop at Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's that is - where the price of a two slice electrical toaster has fallen below the £5 mark. Competition between the major multiples in the cheap electric...

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    "If you pop into Tesco in Hungary, you can find strawberries piled up in pyramids. You'll never find those here"

    2006-11-18T00:00:00Z

    I've got to admit I have a certain amount of sympathy with Ben Bradshaw's call to cut food and drink packaging. If it's not thick plastic wrapped around my broccoli, or pre-wrapped bananas, it's packets of tea with individually wrapped sachets....