Tesco news and analysis – Page 311
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Banrock Station extends new style after Tesco trial
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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In the Express lane
The idea that any retailer can conjure up 1,000 sites on which to open convenience stores seems wildly optimistic even if the retailer concerned is Tesco. But don't dismiss the idea out of hand, because Tesco is deadly serious about this. In...
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WHAT THE RETAILERS SAY....
TESCO has held auctions via the WWRE e-marketplace for more than a year. Director of supply chain development Barry Knichel reckons at least 10% of procurement could ultimately be e-tendered: "It's a more disciplined way of doing business."...
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Ego' of Tesco's 1,000 is scorned
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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Jaffa Cakes get on a roll with extension to rival Cadbury
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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Multiples warned of deep cuts destruction to Stella
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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HI-TECH IN HUNGARY
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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Asda leapfrogs Safeway to No 2 spot,Coke thrives on multibuy
Morrisons remains top of the stores chart although its lead has been cut once again, with Asda just a little over two percentage points behind in second place, and Safeway a further three percentage points behind in third place. Tesco, Sainsbury...
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Bogof's week
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
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
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
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
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...