Tesco news and analysis – Page 255
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Maltesers and Milky Way get in with the cool
Maltesers and Milky Way are the latest confectionery lines to hit ice cream cabinets. Tubs of Maltesers Ice Cream Bites - available exclusively in Tesco for £2.99 - consist of 15 bites of ice cream dipped in milk or white and dark...
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At last tesco gets IIP
Tesco's national customer care centre in Dundee has achieved Investors in People status - becoming the first part of the retail giant to gain recognition. Pictured are head of customer service Ian Naylor (left), personnel manager...
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Letter of the week
Principle sustainability adviser, Forum for the Future. The announcements last week from Marks & Spencer and Tesco reveal a new arena of competition between the food retailers - the race towards sustainability. But will these announcements...
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The new order is values-for-money
Listening to Sir Terry Leahy's speech last week on reducing carbon emissions, I pinched myself. A few years ago industry leaders ignored, dismissed or downplayed the urgency of the environmental case. Others just saw an opportunity to flog a few...
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Price Survey
Tesco is lagging further behind Asda than ever in The Grocer 33 shop having this week recorded the fourth-cheapest basket for the fourth week in a row. Once again Asda was the cheapest, with a basket cost of £39.78,...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visited. Tesco Express Hookwood, Surrey. Welcome Horsham, West Sussex. SMILE LOCAL North Street, Bristol. Nisa Brixton, South London. Bp shop Dorking, Surrey How they performed The BP...
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Tesco opens own-brand store in China
Tesco has opened its first store in China using its own fascia.The retailer currently operates 50 stores in the country through a partnership with Ting Hsin, which operates Hymall stores. The partnership has been running for three...
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Will punters be neutral about carbon footprints?
Low carb finally shed its fad diet connotations this week as retailers vied for the moral highground in the battle against climate change. First Marks & Spencer and then Tesco launched dramatic eco-plans covering all areas of their...
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Retailers go it alone with produce drives
The government's 5-a-day campaign has lost out as supermarkets start the year with a blaze of fruit and veg promotions. Tesco and Sainsbury's are both pumping millions into free or cut-price produce, and Waitrose is also running a citrus...
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Team up to save planet says Asda
Asda has pleaded for more collaboration between retailers to help save the planet in the wake of huge media announcements on the environment from its rivals. On Thursday Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy unveiled far-reaching plans to...
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Tesco 'sabotage' blasted
A leading independent retailer is accusing Tesco of bully-boy tactics - just days before the Competition Commission publishes its emerging thinking document on the grocery sector. Powys-based retailer Harry Tuffins claimed Tesco was...
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Tesco's Wharton takes on MBL supply chain
After five years as network development director for Tesco, Scott Wharton has split ranks and joined MBL as its new supply chain director. He steps into the shoes of Mark Aylwin, who left the MBL team in September to become chief...
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Tesco's Sunderland site plan under fire
The threat of a compulsory purchase order is hanging over land owned by Tesco in Sunderland city centre. Rival developers are fighting Tesco's plans to build a store there. It's emerged the city council or the regional development agency...
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Top-Up shop
Who we visited. Spar Kirkintilloch, Scotland. The Co-operative group Ifield, Crawley. Budgens Amersham, Bucks. Nisa Yardley, Birmingham. Tesco express Harrogate, North Yorkshire. How they...
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Tesco to update on Christmas trading
Analysts are expecting Tesco to report like-for-like sales growth of between 4.5% and 6% when it updates the City on Christmas trading tomorrow (Tuesday). Much of the growth is expected to come from non-food, with analysts especially keen to...
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Condon takes marketing role at Tesco
James Condon, former head of global marketing for George at Asda, has joined Tesco as its new head of brand communications and trade planning. Condon joined Asda in September 2003 to take on the responsibility for marketing Asda's George...
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Morrisons in lead with price-cutting
Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda have been making all the big noise about new year price reductions - but Morrisons has quietly been beating them all, according to exclusive data from The Grocer Price Index. Morrisons has cut the cost of our...
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Tesco could sell land bank
The Competition Commission's inquiry into the grocery industry could force Tesco to sell its land bank. At least two of the six members on the inquiry's panel are arguing Tesco's property portfolio is preventing rivals from entering local...
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Sir Terry Leahy's agenda
?Health and the environment will continue to be at the top of our agenda because they are both becoming increasingly important to our customers. On health we start the new year with our GDA nutritional labelling on more products and very soon we...
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In Brief: Property venture; Strike is called off; Asda sues Leighton
Property venture Tesco has entered into a property joint venture with British Airways Pension Fund to release £445m from its UK property portfolio. The deal includes 16 Tesco stores. Strike is called...