Archive of all Tesco articles – Page 264
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High street, high risk
Asda wants to grow its empire but is taking over Littlewoods or Woolworths likely to deliver more problems than profits?Tony DeNunzio, the boss of Asda, might have told The Grocer in an exclusive interview that Tesco had an...
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Buyers are just the tonic
As the nation limped out of January after a long period of colds and flu, The Grocer asked healthcare suppliers to nominate the buyers they most like to deal with when it comes to getting their products into store.Tesco buyers were popular...
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Disappointing festive sales for independents
Tesco may have posted record sales but the Christmas period wasn’t half as cheery for the independent retailers quizzed in our latest survey. Ninety per cent said Christmas was poorer or the same as previous years, with only a handful feeling...
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Musgrave fury at Tesco claims
Tesco’s testimony to an Irish parliamentary committee investigating grocery prices has provoked a row with the Musgrave Group and prompted threats of legal action.Musgrave, which owns the SuperValu and Centra franchises, has challenged Tesco’s...
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Sharper act on shop floor
Tesco is embarking on a major restructuring of staff at its stores in a bid to improve standards.The multiple is creating a raft of team leader roles to support line managers, the latest in a series of initiatives designed to improve staff...
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Review of 2004
January Big Food Group meets Londis’s advisors, KPMG, to discuss a bid. BFG announces departure of Iceland MD Mike Coupe. Tesco stuns convenience world by buying Adminstore. The City raises concerns about Morrisons’ ability to integrate...
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Tesco looks at non-food expansion
Tesco, the UK’s biggest supermarket chain, now plans to extend its retail power outside the food industry by opening a chain of non-food stores.The retailer plans to open its first of these as a trial store over the coming year, and this is...
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Tesco: can it do no wrong?
Six out of every 10 people visited a Tesco store in the four weeks to Christmas, spending an average of £148.22 each.The UK’s top food retailer took almost 30% of trade in these key weeks, according to The Grocer’s exclusive TradeTrak research...
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Tesco RFID hits higher gear
Tesco is embarking on a major roll out of RFID in its supply chain with plans to install readers across its entire depot and store network by the end of the year.Under a deal struck with electronic security systems expert ADT, Tesco will...
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Waitrose wins at Christmas
Waitrose emerged as the surprise winner among grocery retailers announcing their Christmas sales this week, although Tesco is expected to emerge triumphant when it reports next week.Waitrose reported like-for like sales up 3.6% in the seven...
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Asda has a merry little Christmas
The Christmas trading period this year clearly established Tesco, Asda and Waitrose as winners, according to this month’s Homescan Total Till. All three retailers achieved sales growths of between 10% and 20% over the same four-week period last...
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Tesco RFID hits higher gear
Tesco is embarking on a major roll out of RFID in its supply chain with plans to install readers across its entire depot and store network by the end of the year.Under a deal struck with electronic security systems expert ADT, Tesco will...
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Supermarkets win the Christmas battle, says new research for The Grocer
Tesco, Asda and Waitrose emerged clear winners over the Christmas period, with sales growths between 10% and 20% compared to the same period last year. Sales across the grocery channel for the four weeks to December 25, 2004 were up 9.2%....
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Tesco and Asda buy Big W stores from Woolworths
Tesco and Asda have bought seven out-of-town Big W stores from UK retailer Woolworths following a recent auction of the stores.The stores are the only ones out of the chain of 21 Big W stores that have permission for food retailing, and they...
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They’re hot properties
When soup suppliers nominated their favourite buyers this month they told us that although their nominees were determined to drive a hard bargain, they were also fair and helped to increase the performance of the soup category.Tesco’s Mark...
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Flying off the shelves (if it’s there)
Tesco has improved but availability is still causing headaches for suppliers and retailers says Siân HarringtonWhen chief executive Sir Terry Leahy stated in 2003 that he wanted Tesco to be number one for availability, it was clear...
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GI firepower for Tesco
Tesco has launched a lifestyle and diet book to encourage healthy eating and will label products in store to help shoppers follow the plan.The GI Guide is based on the Glycaemic Index which rates carbohydrates by the effect they have on blood...
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NBA relief as mince war ends
Minced beef prices in Tesco and Asda have returned to the levels they were before the multiples’ price war on fresh beef began.Information gathered by The Grocer 33 price survey on January 4 shows that both multiples have increased the price of...
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Netto’s meal challenge
Discount supermarket chain Netto is challenging premium own label brands, such as Tesco Finest, Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference and Asda Extra Special, with a new own label range of chilled ready meals.The new six-strong range has been...
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Tesco shoppers don’t like being churned up
Tesco is reassessing its range review processes after customers complained that there was too much churn.Food supply director Joe Dybell declined to give details but confirmed that customers wanted greater consistency. He added: “Customers tell...