Tesco - Latest News and Analysis – Page 280
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A recent survey has just pronounced my local town, Tetbury,
Supermarket proliferation is unbounded, tethered only by conscientious objectors. Once majestic on their awesome out of town sites, they have marched relentlessly deeper and deeper into our cities, towns, villages and now, with Tesco's recent...
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Customer: a person who buys. That is a dictionary definition
This is why Tesco works so hard to understand customers better than anyone else. We get to know their likes and dislikes and study what they buy and how they shop. Then, armed with this intelligence, we adapt. The offer we have made for T&S stores...
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Hunt calls for OFT referral of T&S buy
Federation of Wholesale Distributors chairman Rodney Hunt has called on the Office of Fair Trading to refer Tesco's bid for T&S Stores to the Competition Commission. Speaking at the FWD annual dinner, Hunt said Tesco's turnover in grocery was...
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Spain to build on Tesco alliance
Ed Bedington Top Spanish officials have met Tesco bosses to thrash out plans to repeat and expand an innovative marketing deal. The success of the retailer's first-ever generic marketing campaign for the country's fresh produce this year led...
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Stores unite over T&S takeover
John Wood Pressure is being piled on the Office of Fair Trading to refer Tesco's takeover offer for T&S Stores to the Competition Commission. This week two more major players in the c-store sector made representations to the OFT and the...
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Shopping visits grow shorter
It is no surprise that Tesco and the other big supermarket retailers are keen to increase their presence in the convenience market when you analyse recent trends in shopping visits.Our survey, compiled exclusively for The Grocer from research we...
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Stella's flying start to yuletide
The fascia chart remains stable this week in terms of positioning, with Morrisons, Safeway and Tesco making up the top three. Morrisons has pulled further ahead with a wide range of beers and lager on price promotion on floor stacks....
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Tesco has everything going for it
from John Gallanders, Hermitage Consultancy Services Sir; There appear to be certain sectors of the trade that are giving a negative view of the impending takeover of T&S by Tesco. Any business that expands will always have a major impact...
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A cut-throat christmas but merry?
Tesco's third-quarter trading statement this week has underlined one of the few certainties in the UK's increasingly volatile grocery market, namely that the operators focused on efficiency and low prices are the ones who are the most successful. ...
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Tesco is our EU trump card
Clive Beddall, Budapest Hungary's food and drink providers believe their "homeland Tesco experience" will prove a trump card when their country becomes a full EU member in 2004 and they chase more UK business. Exhibiting at the country's...
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Multiples to monitor taint
Tesco, Sainsbury and Waitrose are planning to take part in an ambitious project to trial a new cork designed to limit wine taint. Sabaté, the French cork manufacturer, has produced 100,000 corks which are guaranteed to have half the amount of...
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Brands break from the fixture
Morrisons remains at number one closely followed by Tesco which moves up one place to number two. Tesco is particularly strong on alcoholic drinks and confectionery. There is an increasing number of off-fixture displays in all stores with...
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Alfred Jones' faith in its locations is so strong that it..
Warrington-based Spar chain Alfred Jones sent Tesco its congratulations for swallowing up local rival T&S, because, far from being intimidated by the prospect of the Tesco Express convenience format on his doorstep, MD Tom Calderbank is confident...
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no need for t&S to sell out to tesco
from Dudley Ramsden, executive chairman, Nisa-Today's Sir; I read with some scepticism your article in The Grocer last week, Revealed: How Tesco met T&S' (p16). The implications of this article are that T&S Stores simply had no option but to...
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Front runners hold positions
There are no changes in positioning in the retailer chart this week with Morrisons, Safeway and Tesco remaining the top three. Competition has increased with just two percentage points separating them. Safeway remains strong on...
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Tesco vegetarians' favourite this year
Tesco beat Waitrose and Sainsbury to walk away with the best supermarket accolade at this year's Vegetarian Society awards. The awards were voted for by a panel including celebrity chefs Richard Cawley and Rose Elliot and singer Hazel O'Connor...
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This is Not the end of the story
On first appearances, it is hard to see how Tesco's decision to acquire T&S Stores could possibly be referred by the OFT for further investigation. No matter what concerns are raised by suppliers and other retailers, the deal does not take Tesco...
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Gallo's in a box
Ernest & Julio Gallo has launched its first wine in a box format. The company has put the Ruby Cabernet and Colombard varietals from its Rivercrest range in the 3-litre packs. They are in Sainsbury for £14.99. Beastly challenge Tesco...
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Top 50 alarm at T&S
Siâ® Harrington Nearly 90% of Britain's largest independents believe Tesco's proposed purchase of T&S Stores will have an impact on their business, with two-thirds believing it will be negative. A poll of senior executives from The Grocer's...
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Then there was one...
Tesco and the Co–operative Group’s shopping sprees last week have put TM Retail in the spotlight as the UK’s largest remaining independent convenience chain. But with T&S and Alldays snapped up, the obvious question is how long will TM hold onto its...