All Tesco articles – Page 225
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AnalysisThe Retail Cabinet
As the new Government is announced, Retail Week imagines a country run by the UK’s top retailers. Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy is an obvious choice for prime minister, but whose business skills would he be calling on to work alongside him in his first cabinet?
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NewsRetail stock buoyant despite election fears
Retail shares were among the better performers as economic turmoil in Greece and political uncertainty ahead of the general election here took a toll on the market overall.
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NewsTesco to launch 50% off clothing Sale
Tesco will launch a 50% Sale on its clothing website on Friday May 7 to celebrate the site’s first six months of trading.
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NewsThe OFT drops part of its dairy investigation
The Office of Fair Trading has concluded that it has insufficient evidence to support an infringement in its dairy investigation in regard to liquid milk in 2002 and value butter in 2003.
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OpinionPressure on Morrisons grows
Morrisons’ new chief executive Dalton Philips will have been in the hot seat for only about six weeks when the grocer delivers its first-quarter update next week.
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NewsCarphone Warehouse riding high on back of demerger
The launch of US electricals giant Best Buy in the UK grabbed the headlines this week, but it was also parent company Carphone Warehouse’s first trading update since its demerger last month.
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NewsAvatar set to bust DVD sales records and become biggest Blu-ray release
The DVD and Blu-ray release of blockbuster film Avatar has set the tills ringing in stores and online and is predicted to become one of the biggest releases of all time.
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Analysis
Why aren’t there more women in multichannel retail?
High-profile female entrepreneurs have conquered ecommerce, so why aren’t there more in established retailers, asks Joanna Perry
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NewsWalmart is world’s most valuable retail brand
Walmart tops a list of ten retailers found to be among the world’s 100 most valuable brands, according to research commissioned by WPP.
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NewsAsda heralds ‘the official end of the grocery price war’ with price guarantee
Asda is putting its money where its mouth is with a guarantee that it offers shoppers lowest prices on groceries or will give them their money back, a step which it said “heralds the official end of the grocery price war”.
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NewsAsda lags behind the market
Asda is still under-performing the market with year-on-year growth well behind the growth of the other major retailers, according to Kantar Worldpanel.
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OpinionTesco’s food fight
Tesco showed once again this week why it is market leader, but with rivals hot on its heels, the sector is squaring up for an interesting food fight.
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AnalysisThe green team
The UK’s biggest retailers are casting their nets ever wider when it comes to taking responsibility for sustainability initiatives. How exactly are they raising their green game
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OpinionUK sees eruptions of optimism
The recent spate of sunny weather has brought not just an uplift in spring 10 sales but also a renewed sense of optimism. Results from some of the leading fashion firms seem to suggest we are over the worst.
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OpinionTesco primed for economic recovery
Sir Terry Leahy may be many things, but you won’t often hear him accused of being a ray of sunshine. So when you hear him speaking as positively as he was this week about how UK consumers have left the recession well and truly behind them, you know he is ...
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GallerySainsbury’s Dursley: The new green norm
Eco-stores may be old hat, but Sainsbury’s latest in Dursley shows green thinking can play a part in a regular store. John Ryan reports
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NewsCity sticks with Tesco but share price falters
Record results from Tesco failed to help either the grocer’s or its peers’ shares, which all fell over the week.
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NewsTesco ‘back in the lead’
Leahy laughs off Asda’s non-food ambitions as Tesco posts strong year’s sales and record profits
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AnalysisFive big questions for Asda’s new boss
Asda is finding trading tough but has big ambitions. As Andy Bond prepares to take a back seat, Jennifer Creevy looks at the big issues his successor will need to tackle to get the grocer back on track
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NewsAsh cloud splits retailers over absence pay
The air travel chaos because of the volcanic ash cloud has caused retailers a headache over whether to pay staff absent as a result of not being able to fly home.
