Tesco news and analysis – Page 210
-
News
Creamfields festival in Tesco trademark scrap
The organisers of the Creamfields dance music festival, which took place last weekend, are embroiled in a trademark dispute with Tesco over its use of the Creamfields brand for own-label dairy lines.It has emerged that Cream Holdings,...
-
NewsWill profits be cannibalised in Tesco’s race for space?
As Tesco pumps up the pipeline, leaving even Sainsbury’s in its wake, how close is the market to saturation? Adam Leyland and Michelle Perrett report
-
NewsTabasco range turns up heat in branded chilled pizza sector
Tabasco has unveiled its new chilled pizza line-up, its first range of branded products outside the hot sauce category. The three-strong Tabasco Spicy Pizza range is in Tesco now with an rsp of £3.99 the same price as the Pizza...
-
News
Tesco to extend F&F brand into range of homeware products
The first details have emerged of Tesco's plans to extend its F&F fashion brand into homeware.The retailer has drawn up new logos for the range, which will have a good, better, best hierarchy under F&F Home Basics, F&F Home...
-
News
Retail Prices: Tesco responds with cut as Asda sticks to booze pledge
The picture may be mixed, and confused by differing strategies on alcohol, but overall the big four are keeping the lid on inflation, says Ronan Hegarty
-
News
Abseil-utely fabulous
CSR sometimes occupies a strange nether-realm between hippy-drippy hug-a-dolphin stuff and cold-blooded PR.Tesco's head of being nice and not ruining the environment, Josh Hardie, was living the CSR dream for real last week by plunging...
-
NewsFresh & Easy under fire in row over workers’ rights
Tesco’s American arm, Fresh & Easy, has been slammed in a report on exploitative working practices in the US.
-
News
Tesco leaves rivals behind in the race for new floorspace
So much for static sales. Who says the market is saturated? Tesco, the UK's largest retailer, is growing its estate faster than any of its rivals and it's turned up the heat this year with a dramatic increase in new construction contracts and...
-
NewsGrocer 33: Asda back on top after two-week absence
Asda snatched back its crown this week after a two-week absence from the top of the table. Its basket was £1.95 cheaper than Tesco's and it had the highest number of cheapest items (5). Asda also recorded the most promotions and was the only...
-
NewsGrocer 33: Helpful staff secure win for Tesco
This week's winner is Tesco in Burnage, Manchester. One assistant showed our shopper to the avocados with a big smile while another left her home shopping trolley to take him to the Birds Eye curry. The only downside was the Tilda rice being out of...
-
News
Samworth grows in a ‘tough’ economy
Samworth Brothers, the Leicestershire based food manufacturer, is creating 240 new jobs in Leicestershire and Cornwall. The chilled food company, which supplies major retailers including Tesco and Waitrose, will recruit the jobs at two...
-
News
They’re not in front but Sainsbury’s and M&S still wow City
Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer dazzled the City with the latest year-on-year sales growth ahead of Tesco and Asda. In the 12 weeks to 8 August [Kantar Worldpanel] Sainsbury's posted year-on-year sales growth of 5.5% , while M&S...
-
News
Arla Foods muscles into cottage cheese with own-label lines
Arla Foods has made its debut in UK cottage cheese and taken half the own-label market in one go. The UK subsidiary of the Scandinavian dairy giant started supplying own-label cottage cheese to Tesco last week and will supply Asda from...
-
News
Tesco funds admitted by Irish National Trust
An Taisce, The National Trust for Ireland, which frequently objects to supermarket developments, has admitted it received €25,000 (£20,600) in corporate funding from Tesco.
-
News
Tesco goes to San Francisco
Tesco has announced it will open eight new Fresh & Easy stores in Northern California in early 2011. The stores, located in the San Francisco Bay Area and Modesto, will be...
-
News
Tesco calls it a day at its Calais drinks store
Tesco has made 80 people redundant at its Tesco Vins Plus store in Calais, France, following its closure at the end of July and a lengthy consultation with employees. Tesco is the latest UK operator to leave the booze cruise capital...
-
News
Huntapac launches its first vegetable brand
Carrot packer Huntapac is looking to do for carrots what Rooster has done for potatoes with the launch of Roots, its first-ever consumer-facing vegetable brand. The company, which supplies root vegetables and salad crops to Tesco, Marks...
-
News
Brains Black gets listed in Welsh Tescos
Tesco has granted listings to Brains Black throughout its Welsh stores, following the stout's success as a challenger to Guinness in the on-trade. The Welsh brewery launched Brains Black into pubs in March as an alternative to the market...
-
News
Picture This... Tesco to lose the Big Brother house party
The imminent demise of C4's Big Brother is not just bad news for its legions of fans. Tesco will also be mourning the end of the reality TV phenomenon.
-
News
Tesco and M&S make email marketing pay
Tesco and Marks & Spencer have harnessed the power of email marketing more effectively than any other UK retailer, new research has claimed.