All Tesco articles – Page 8

  • News

    Tesco set to take Spar’s top spot

    2006-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Tesco is likely to leapfrog Spar to become the biggest c-store chain by sales this year, according to latest research from retail analysts Verdict.

  • News

    Tesco uses report to counter critics

    2005-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has moved to counter recent bad publicity by using results of a report it commissioned that suggest its Express format has brought trade back to other local stores.

  • News

    Tesco buys get okay

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    In the same week that the OFT agreed to reconsider its views on the effect of multiple grocers’ entry into the c-store sector, it gave the green light to Tesco’s acquisition of another 21 petrol forecourts.

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    Tesco surges on

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Tesco is on course to open its 600th Express convenience store this month, and could soon push well past that with the acquisition of another 21 petrol station sites from Morrisons.

  • News

    Tesco tries its luck

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    All eyes are on the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) following Tesco’s offer to buy 30 petrol stations from Morrisons. The sites were formerly part of the BP-Safeway joint venture and Tesco says if the deal is successful, it would convert them into Expre

  • News

    Craig slams ‘Tesco World’

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Surviving in “Tesco World” would require resilience and the need for independent retailers, wholesalers and suppliers to join forces and work together Lizette Craig, managing director of Botterills Convenience Stores, told the Lanarkshire-based group

  • Features and analysis

    Tesco’s own cop shop

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Police have set up home in a Tesco c-store’s back office in a bid to combat anti-social behaviour in Dorset.

  • News

    Tesco under attack again

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Tesco has once again come under attack over its growing presence in the grocery market, but this time some of its own shareholders have joined in.

  • News

    Anger over Tesco rates reduction

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    A local authority in Norfolk has granted a Tesco superstore a 20% reduction in its business rates because it is having to compete with other stores owned by the multiple giant in the region.