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Tesco shake-up focuses on store formats
Exclusive Kit Davies Tesco has ditched its traditional regional management structure in favour of one focused on store formats. And retail director David Potts claims the move will provide a definitive break with its superstore rivals all of...
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Ireland's battle at the checkouts: Tesco: The Irish Experien
Tesco moved into the Irish market three years ago, buying the 75-store Quinnsworth and Crazy Prices chain from Associated British Foods for I£630m, a price some in the trade regarded as high. Since then the company has invested another I£200m in...
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Ireland's battle at the checkouts: making war or out on man
Anthony Garvey reports on reactions to Tesco Ireland's claim of an altruistic' price blitz coming, as it does, on the eve of the government's review of the ban on below cost selling The woman unloading her heavily stocked shopping trolley in the...
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Terrorist' threatens Tesco
Dorset police are investigating a spate of parcel bomb attacks believed to be connected with a blackmail attempt to extort £1m from Tesco. Detectives were called in after a letter bomb exploded in the hands of an elderly man from east Dorset, and...
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Internet shopping: Budgens gives up online plan
Budgens' decision to pull the plug on its online shopping service just months after announcing plans to boost the offer has baffled rival operators. Tesco.com chief John Browett admitted he was "stunned" by the decision. Three months ago...
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Multiples: Tesco aims long and high
Chain looks to a big slice of non food and speedy growth overseas Tesco set itself ambitious growth targets as it reported a 9% rise in its interim pretax profits to £415m on turnover of £10.1bn. Chief executive Terry Leahy said: "We are...
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Sainsbury accelerates NPD with a Difference
Exclusive Julian Hunt Sainsbury is aiming to blow Tesco Finest out of the water with the launch of a premium own label range dubbed Taste the Difference. The range will start appearing in stores next month and Sainsbury has boldly predicted that...
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In the city: competitors will be very hard put indeed to fin
If competitors cannot find anything to celebrate about Tesco's forthcoming interims (out September 19), their one consolation might be that the announcement is overshadowed by the fuel crisis. Tesco is widely expected to report 3-4% like for like...
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Republic of Ireland: Cuts stay says Tesco as IFA threatens b
Supermarkets in the Irish Republic are threatened with a petrol-style blockade by dairy farmers who claim they could be put out of business by the current price war. All the major chains Tesco, Dunnes, SuperValu, Superquinn, Aldi and Lidl have...
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Ireland: Tesco ignites price war in the Irish Republic with
Tesco has set off a price war in the Irish Republic, slashing 20% off the cost of more than 50 food, drink and household products in its 75 stores across the country. Its big local rival, Dunnes Stores, has immediately hit back, with matching...
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International expansion: Polish planning threat looms
As foreign hypermarket operators race to win market share in Poland, a row has broken out over proposals to give local authorities (Gminas) greater powers to control planning permission for new developments. Tesco said it was concerned new laws...
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Internet trading exchanges WWRE: here's how we'll outsmart t
Tesco and Ahold are already trialling procurement through the WorldWide Retail Exchange, its newly appointed chief executive Colin Dyer revealed this week. In his only interview with the UK trade press, he told The Grocer that buying and selling...
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Tesco/ WH Smith newstrade deal: Tesco soothes publisher ange
Tesco chief executive Terry Leahy is leading an attempt by the retailer to avoid a clash with publishers over magazine distribution. Leahy headed a delegation from Tesco which met representatives of the Newspaper Publishers Association this week....
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Tesco speeds up in Taiwan
Tesco will open its first store in Taiwan six months earlier than originally planned, following the acquisition of a retail outlet in the country's largest shopping mall. The store was purchased from Dutch group Makro Asia, which is shifting its...
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TESCO IRISH CHARGE GOES UP
Tesco Ireland is to put a new delivery charge of I£1.50 on home deliveries. This is to be run on a trial basis in six of its stores. Until now, free delivery was offered with a minimum purchase of I£25. However the service was confined to those...
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News analysis: newstrade distribution
Bagging the mags Will the Tesco/WH Smith distribution deal prove bad news for many small retailers? John Wood reports This week the row over Tesco's national deal for magazine supplies intensified when the Newspaper Publishers' Association...
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Share ware
Exchanges have the potential to achieve real breakthroughs in demand and supply side management says Spencer Marlow Many suppliers embraced the early private extranets of companies like Tesco and Wal-Mart and were looking forward to the promised...
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Tesco caught up in Irish probe
Tesco has found itself at the centre of an Irish state probe into why a cap on superstore size was eased. The cap was imposed by environment minister Noel Dempsey two years ago, following a campaign by independent retailers' group RGDATA, public...
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John Willie's set to become major player in bottled ale
Independent Manchester brewer JW Lees is making the most of its success last year in the Tesco Beer Challenge. Its John Willie's Manchester Champion Ale won the coveted prize of a 36 week exclusive national listing with the multiple. It is now...
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Fancy a glass of Old Engine Oil?
Castle Eden from Hartlepool and Harviestoun from Clackmanshire in Scotland took a radically different approach to winter beers to beat off 43 other breweries and win Tesco's Autumn Beer Challenge. The Castle Eden team won the large brewer category...