Tesco - Latest News and Analysis – Page 281
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Then there was one...
Tesco and the CoÂoperative 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...
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Revealed: how Tesco met T&S
Sean McAllister andElaine Watson T&S boss Jim McCarthy has revealed how a weakness in the company's chilled and fresh offer ultimately led to Tesco's takeover bid. T&S approached the major multiples, including Tesco, for a partner to bring...
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Hit or Miss?
>> How is one of last year's top launches faring?Nestlé’s Nesquik Fresh, launched in July 2003, signalled the brand’s first foray into fridges.And the milk drink got off to a good start with listings in Tesco, Sainsbury,...
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Nutri Centre debut at Tesco
Tesco has opened the first in-store Nutri Centre in its flagship store in West Kensington, London. In the joint venture, customers will be able to purchase more than 3,000 herbal and homeopathic remedies, aromatherapy oils, vitamins, minerals...
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Tesco's one stop shop
Not for Tesco a slow and painful Sainsbury-style advent into convenience beset by planning battles and distribution problems. Instead it is grabbing a 5% slice of the convenience market in one go. All it needs is T&S’s shareholders to rubberstamp...
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C-sector is set to fight
The Grocer news team Tesco won't find convenience retailing as easy as it thinks warned industry chiefs following its bid to buy an 862 storechunk of the market. AF Blakemore retail director Elwyn Davies said: "This is only bad news for bad...
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Safeway thrives on off-fixtures
Morrisons and Tesco remain at the top of the retailers' chart with Morrisons pulling slightly further ahead. Tesco is being chased by Safeway, which has moved up from number five. The success of Safeway this week is due in part to the...
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MORRISONS is the THREAT TO TESCO
from D Wakeling, Crabtree, Paston, Peterborough Sir; with reference to your Store Analysis report (October 12, p23) where you analysed why Morrisons would want to trade from Enfield when there were two Tesco stores and a Sainsbury within...
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Tesco skates on Streatham ice
Tesco has put in a planning application for a mixed-use regeneration scheme in Streatham, south London. The scheme will include a new 38,000 sq ft Tesco store, private and affordable housing, a public square, improved public transport links and...
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A hit that's only faintly bruising
A good performance by Safeway and Sainsbury helped to prevent our basket of shares from taking an alarming dip this month. However, even though many of our companies are outperforming the market, we took a loss of £37.Tesco dropped a few...
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Not for Tesco a slow and painful Sainsbury-style advent into
Then it can get on with its plans to convert 450 prime sites to its lucrative Express format over the next three to four years. The masterplan is to use T&S's distribution network to serve the new standalone Express chain and around 400 residual One...
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Tesco buys T&S Stores
Tesco has agreed to buy convenience store group T&S Stores for £377.3m to boost its presence in the convenience market.T&S's portfolio of stores includes more than 1,200 shops including 862 convenience stores under the One Stop and Day &...
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Stock failures revealed
Elaine Watson Tesco and Sainsbury are missing out on a major sales opportunity through poor product availability, according to new research by Taylor Nelson Sofres revealed at the Schroder Salomon Smith Barney Food Retailing conference. Data...
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Stock failures revealed
Tesco and Sainsbury are missing out on a major sales opportunity through poor product availability, according to new research by Taylor Nelson Sofres revealed at the Schroder Salomon Smith Barney Food Retailing conference.Data from TNS...
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Twist is ready to dance for the nation
Bacardi-Martini is ready for a national roll out of its Breezer Twist after a four-month trial in Tesco. Breezer Twist's range of fruit-flavoured spirits comes in three versions, lime, watermelon, and mango with passion fruit, each with a...
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Clubcard partners
Allders and Dollond & Aitchison have signed up as partners for Tesco's Clubcard and are the first of many, according to the retailer. Tesco is negotiating with "a number of other companies", said a spokesman, to make loyalty points available "in...
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Tesco teams up with high street store
Tesco has ramped its loyalty card offer in time for the festive season by linking up with Allders to offer Clubcard points on all goods bought at the department store group.Clubcard holders will get one point for every £1 spent at Allders or...
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Terms of global impediment
Tesco is the latest big retailer to rattle its sabre in the battle to sweep away local pricing strategies in pursuit of global goals. Tesco’s decision to tackle head on the discrepancies in terms it is receiving in the different markets in which...
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Usdaw recruiting
Sainsbury and Morrisons have been targeted by shopworkers' union Usdaw for a recruitment campaign. Usdaw broke through the 100,000 members barrier at Tesco last week and has plans to grow membership. Both Sainsbury and Morrisons claim to...
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Tesco ranging really is a revolution
Sir; re There is competition in ranging' (Letters, October 12) in which Carol Bavister of Shelfmax challenged Ben Wishart's claims about Tesco's ranging systems. Wishart, IT...