Tesco news and analysis – Page 264
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Tesco olive branch for small suppliers
Tesco is to improve ranging in Express stores and give smaller suppliers more access to buyers, it told a gathering of hundreds of suppliers. It also told them to speed up new product development and improve order fulfilment to keep Tesco...
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How to really pack a punch
Deciding the winner of this week's Top Store Award was another close call. Asda and Tesco both provided our shoppers with brimming baskets so customer service became the deciding factor. Asda won as our shopper at Asda Gateshead was offered help...
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inside track
Tesco's recent announcement that sales of books grew by 52% in its latest financial year (to 25 February 2006) should be good news. But in the book business there is no such thing as a silver lining without a cloud. Publishers fret that...
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inside track
Philip Jones, editor, The Bookseller:In the book business, there is no such thing as a silver lining without a cloudTesco&'s recent announcement that sales of books grew by 52% in its latest financial year (to 25 February...
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Triple whammy Tesco!
Tesco was voted Britain's best by both consumers and industry experts at The Grocer Gold Awards this week as it walked off with a triumvirate of trophies. The UK's biggest retailer beat strong competition from Waitrose to win Grocer of...
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Tesco raises milk prices
Tesco has increased the price of its fresh milk by 20%.Reports suggest that the retailer has increased the price of a two-pinter of milk by 11p to 64p.A spokesman for the company said that the price increase “better reflected the...
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New Tesco head of BWS wants the Finest wines
Tesco plans further growth for its Finest wine range as well as using it to channel new and diverse wines through to the consumer, according to the retailer's new head of beers, wines and spirits. "We can have enormous fun with it," said...
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Rannoch Smokery cracks multiples
Rannoch Smokery has secured a listing with Tesco and a trial with Morrisons. Following a trial in selected stores, Rannoch Smokery's premium Smoked Barbary Duck Breast and Smoked Wild Scotch Venison are being rolled out to 180 Tesco...
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Tesco recycling units to talk to customers
Tesco is to spend £8.9m on 100 giant state-of-the-art speaking recycling centres that can reward customers for recycling waste. The units talk customers through the process of recycling plastics, metals, glass and other materials, while...
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On queue for great service!
Deciding the winner of this week's Top Store Award was a close call between Sainsbury's Kimberley store in Nottingham, and Tesco's Loundwater store in Buckinghamshire. As both stores provided full baskets and flawless customer service,...
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Waitrose leads in passage to India
Waitrose has emerged as the unlikely winner in the race to enter the growing grocery sector in India. The supermarket group has beaten Tesco and US retailer Wal-Mart into the country by teaming up with Hypercity, India's first...
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"Once again, Tesco has raised the bar. It is in competition to catch up that the planet will benefit"
My morning ablutions were rudely interrupted, on Monday, by Stuart Rose, announcing on Radio 4 a dramatic new £200m eco-plan. I cut myself shaving as he reeled off some of the 100 exciting initiatives, including plans to go carbon neutral, use...
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Editors comment: Banking on Tesco to make its latest Big Idea work
With the Competition Commission unable to conclude its inquiry into the grocery supermarket industry, we’ve been kept waiting for Tesco’s next ‘Big Idea’, the masterstroke we’ve all come to expect that will see Tesco disappear away from the...
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"Brown has pledged retailers will not screw farmers with price cuts on meat. Perhaps retailers should do the same"
Sabotage, extortion, allotments. What an eventful week it's been. As The Grocer was going to press, Philip McHugh was due in court yesterday (Friday) charged with two counts of blackmail and bomb hoaxing against Tesco following the closure of 14...
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Ireland, India... Tesco keeps up global pace
Tesco is set to make its presence felt in the whole of the Republic of Ireland. According to reports in the Irish press, it plans to open a store in Kilkenny - the only county where it does not have one. The news came as more...
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Are the multiples guilty of greenwash?
Tesco's £100m environment fund for developing sustainable technologies has been praised. But how green is it really, asks Simon Creasey. It's timing can't be faulted. On the same day that Tesco announced profits of...
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Tesco brings back roll-out of electronic shelf-edge labels
Tesco is getting excited all over again about the potential of electronic shelf-edge labels, following a successful pilot of the technology at a store in Leicester.The retailer has tested the labelling system on a small scale at...
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Consumers hail price cuts by Tesco Ireland
Tesco in Ireland is to cut the price of up to 5,000 products previously covered by the country&'s groceries order.The move follows a sustained campaign by Irish consumers&' champion Eddie Hobbs.TV personality Hobbs -...
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Leahy demands green incentives
Sir Terry Leahy has renewed his call for the government to offer more incentives to companies to adopt green initiatives.Speaking as Tesco announced a £25m investment in a Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of...