Tesco news and analysis – Page 311
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Brands break from the fixture
Morrisons remains at number one closely followed by Tesco which moves up one place to number two. Tesco is particularly strong on alcoholic drinks and confectionery. There is an increasing number of off-fixture displays in all stores with...
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Top 50 alarm at T&S
Siâ® Harrington Nearly 90% of Britain's largest independents believe Tesco's proposed purchase of T&S Stores will have an impact on their business, with two-thirds believing it will be negative. A poll of senior executives from The Grocer's...
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Gallo's in a box
Ernest & Julio Gallo has launched its first wine in a box format. The company has put the Ruby Cabernet and Colombard varietals from its Rivercrest range in the 3-litre packs. They are in Sainsbury for £14.99. Beastly challenge Tesco...
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This is Not the end of the story
On first appearances, it is hard to see how Tesco's decision to acquire T&S Stores could possibly be referred by the OFT for further investigation. No matter what concerns are raised by suppliers and other retailers, the deal does not take Tesco...
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Tesco vegetarians' favourite this year
Tesco beat Waitrose and Sainsbury to walk away with the best supermarket accolade at this year's Vegetarian Society awards. The awards were voted for by a panel including celebrity chefs Richard Cawley and Rose Elliot and singer Hazel O'Connor...
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Front runners hold positions
There are no changes in positioning in the retailer chart this week with Morrisons, Safeway and Tesco remaining the top three. Competition has increased with just two percentage points separating them. Safeway remains strong on...
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no need for t&S to sell out to tesco
from Dudley Ramsden, executive chairman, Nisa-Today's Sir; I read with some scepticism your article in The Grocer last week, Revealed: How Tesco met T&S' (p16). The implications of this article are that T&S Stores simply had no option but to...
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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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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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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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Then there was one...
Tesco and the Co–operative 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 its...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 &...