Archive of all Tesco articles – Page 292

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    Banrock Station extends new style after Tesco trial

    2002-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Wine drinkers are giving the thumbs up to BRL Hardy's latest single varietal addition to its Banrock Station range. The leading Australian wine company's new Petit Verdot style has been on test in Tesco for the past eight weeks and the results have...

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    HI-TECH IN HUNGARY

    2002-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has opened a state of the art distribution centre in Hercegahlom, Hungary, that will handle over 80% of its goods centrally. Featuring a radio frequency, paperless picking system and fully computerised cross docking, the facility is the most...

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    Multiples warned of deep cuts destruction to Stella

    2002-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Tim Palmer Multiple buyers have been warned they will destroy the value of Britain's best selling alcoholic drink if they continue their ruthless price war on cases of Stella Artois. Both Sainsbury and Tesco have been using the brand to attract...

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    Jaffa Cakes get on a roll with extension to rival Cadbury

    2002-06-29T00:00:00Z

    McVitie's Cake Company is putting its cake superstar Jaffa Cakes up against the mighty Cadbury's cake brand with the launch of Jaffa Cake Mini Rolls. Available this week in Tesco and rolling out gradually to other outlets, the newcomers consist of...

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    Ego' of Tesco's 1,000 is scorned

    2002-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Senior c-store industry figures have poured scorn on Tesco's claims it is going to open 1,000 Express c-stores over the next five years, but the multiple has denied rumours that it will make an acquisition to achieve its goal. Spar md Jerry Marwood...

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    Job of the week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Name: Julie Roche Position: National account manager Company: Baxters The job: Roche has joined Baxters' grocery multiples sales team as it expands its operations in ...

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    Feast For The Thai's

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    They are calling it the battle of Bangkok. Carrefour and Tesco Lotus are slugging it out with supercentres in malls directly opposite each other on Rama IV Road, one of the Thai capital's busiet thoroughfares.And while, predictably, neither...

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    Tesco is forced to defend its trading policies to minister

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Elaine Watson Tesco has defended its trading practices in Thailand after another round of meetings with government officials. Executives from Tesco Lotus and Makro met Thai deputy commerce minister Newin Chidchob on Wednesday to give...

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    Standalones hardly lucrative says City

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Tesco plans to open 50 standalone neighbourhood Express stores in 2003 as it develops a "credible convenience brand". Corporate affairs manager Martin Venning said Tesco would stick to secondary trading sites as it rolls out the small store...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    The grocery industry's supreme efforts to get food supplies back on track after the fuel crisis threw up a few interesting instore sights last weekend. A colleague was busy hunting bread and milk at a Tesco in West Sussex (well even responsible...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    It's hard to imagine Tesco without Terry Leahy. But it could so easily have happened, as one of my colleagues was startled to discover this week. He was attending the Swedish government's Food Chain conference ­ not the sort of place you would...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    I read in The Sun ­ where else? ­ that Tesco has hired a seven year old boy to explain the Pokémon craze to them. Laurie Sleator ­ for it is he ­ gives his unique briefings in return for Pokémon goodies (and, I assume, a bodyguard to see ...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    A Tesco love-in at the Marketing Society retail forum came to an abrupt halt last week when a spy was spotted in the crowd. Carolyn Bradley, COO of Tesco.com, had just got on stage, blushing from marketing director Tim Mason's reference to her as...

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    Bogof's week

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Further proof of how competitive the multiples are came this week when Sainsbury and Tesco organised summer bashes for the same night, the same time and the same stretch of the Thames. Although one spin doctor admitted to me that the diary clash...

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    PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

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    PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

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    PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

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    PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

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    PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

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    PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

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