All Tesco articles – Page 249
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Tesco given deadline for decision over Guardian libel action
Tesco must decide by September 15 whether to accept an apology and damages from The Guardian , following the newspaper’s incorrect tax avoidance story, a judge has ruled.
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Wal-Mart crowned world’s largest retailer for 10th year
Wal-Mart has been ranked the world’s largest retailer for the 10th year running, with Tesco named the third biggest, in a report by Planet Retail.
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Government threatens to call time on free plastic bags
Supermarkets have been warned that they must cut the number of plastic bags they distribute by 70 per cent by spring 2009 or be forced to start charging for them.
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Tesco buys out RBS in £950 million deal
Tesco has taken full ownership of its Tesco Personal Finance (TPF) financial services, in a move that it says will generate 1 billion in profit from retailing services.
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Tesco to revive British tea break
Tesco is to give away tea and biscuits at 252 stores across the UK this week in an effort to revive the traditional British tea break and lift sales.
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Inflation shock and sales slump send FTSE 100 and retail down
A market rally on Monday was reversed as a slew of bad news broke.
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Tesco takes on Argos with first catalogue shop launch
Tesco has launched its first Argos-style shop-in-shop at its Homeplus store in Bristol, which opened this week.
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Opinion
US election will affect us all
Tesco’s recent AGM in Birmingham attracted its share of campaigners as usual, but the unusual antics of some were outweighed comfortably by the good sense of ordinary shareholders, many attending for the first time.
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Tesco to deploy staff scheduling to stores
Tesco is to roll out a workforce scheduling system to its stores.
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Tesco to withdraw from Zimbabwe
Tesco is to stop sourcing products from Zimbabwe after the re-election of President Robert Mugabe.
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Tesco challenges Competition Commission
Tesco today launched a legal challenge to one of the remedies recommended by the Competition Commission’s two-year long probe into the grocer sector.
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Grocers’ shares tumble as shoppers embrace discounters
TNS data showing rapid market share growth by hard discounters contributed to a fall in the share prices of quoted grocers. Meanwhile, general stores slipped still further as trading difficulties – real and imagined – undermined sentiment.
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Obama tackles Leahy over union row
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has this week written to Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy ahead of the grocer’s AGM today, urging him to start discussions with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW).
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Tesco prepares for AGM showdown
Top retailer Tesco’s fears that its AGM will be turned into a “circus” look likely to become a reality as a raft of campaigners attempt to hijack the agenda.
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Opinion
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
It’s hard to know who will get the most attention at Tesco’s AGM today. It could be the chicken campaigners, the Barack Obama-supported US union or the Unite protesters presenting chief executive Sir Terry Leahy with a “golden loo”.
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Obama appeals to Leahy over union recognition
Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy has been asked by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to meet with and engage with American trade unions.
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Sainsbury's non-food boss defects to Tesco
Sainsbury’s head of non-food Richard Jones is quitting the grocer to take a top job at competitor Tesco.
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Tesco under fire for planning application
Tesco is under fire after it was revealed that it used a local retailer to front a planning application for a development in Barnstaple, Devon.
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Tesco to roll out mobile till points in Express shops
Tesco is to introduce mobile checkouts to many of its Express formats after testing the devices at a handful of stores.
