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• Business Objectives Are Not Just For Christmas

  BNET - 2009-12-01

  What are your objectives for 2010? As we enter December many business leaders are pulling together their key objectives for next year. But how many of the objectives that you are currently developing will last the next 12 months? All too often, if the first attempt...

  Tags: Team, Tesco, Business Objective, Persistence, Team Management, Food & Beverage, Management, Manufacturing, Stuart Cross

• Tesco's Fresh & Easy Enjoying Fruits of Its Summer of Enhancements

  BNET - 2009-09-29

  Fresh & Easy has had a busy summer, as the evidence of its revised website suggests, not to mention a slew of new product introductions and resort to old as well as new media. Revised has a two-fold meaning in this case. On the one hand, the...

  Tags: Food, Brand, Tesco, Media, Retail Company, Retail, Food & Beverage, Advertising & Promotion, Manufacturing, Marketing, Mike Duff

• Labor Act Hits Wal-Mart Prematurely

  BNET - 2009-03-14

  Call it the Employee Free Choice Act or the card check bill, but if new legislation amending labor laws to make it easier for unions to organize does squeeze through the United States Senate, it could have some interesting and unintended consequences for Wal-Mart, among others. The...

  Tags: Union, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Tesco, UFCWU, Food & Beverage, Benefits, Retail, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Mike Duff

• Tesco Covets the Cost Conscious, So Fresh & Easy Bulks Up Bargains

  BNET - 2009-03-13

  Clearly, Fresh & Easy has positioned the 98-cent Produce Packs to be a bargain that will stick in the customer’s mind and convince one and all that it offers a better alternative to canned and frozen fruits and vegetables even for those keeping tight hold of money these days. by...

  Tags: Tesco, Store, Bargain, Retail, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Mike Duff

• Tesco Approaching 120 Fresh & Easy Stores, Despite Challenges

  BNET - 2009-01-22

  Despite experiencing some bumps in the road, Tesco’s Fresh & Easy operation is poised to reach 120 stores in the United States by the time the company’s financial year ends in February, which puts it about a third of the way to profitability. Based on earlier company...

  Tags: Tesco, Store, Retail, Food & Beverage, Financial Accounting, Manufacturing, Finance, Mike Duff

• Food Roundup: Del Monte's Net Soars, Pilgrim's Gets Access to Funds, Tesco Reports Sales Swoon, and More

  BNET - 2008-12-03

  Del Monte's Net Nearly Doubles -- The company reported that it's second-quarter profits nearly doubled and it revised its forecast upward for the coming year. The earnings boost came from the sale of Starkist and from higher prices. [Source: AP] Pilgrim's Pride Gets OK on Bankruptcy Financing...

  Tags: Bankruptcy, Business Operations, Dan Mitchell, Del Monte, Food, Food & Beverage, Litigation, Manufacturing, Microsoft Access, Nestle S.A., Sales, Sales Strategy, Saudi Arabia, Tesco

• Tesco admits planning bid in guise of independent store

  - 2008-06-28

  Tesco has made it dear it does not own any other independent retailers after admitting it was the owner of the apparently 'independent' Brian Ford's Discount Store in Barnstaple, Devon. The multiple was forced to reveal it owned the store this week after its plans to build a 60,000...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing, MARKETING, Retail, Tesco

• No Booze For You, Tesco Tells Parents

  BNET - 2008-05-19

  Prodded by the government, the U.K. supermarket Tesco has begun refusing to sell alcohol to anybody that cashiers suspect might hand the stuff to a minor. The new policy has come as a shock to unsuspecting adults told they can't buy beer or wine because they have children with them...

  Tags: Tesco, U.K., Alcohol, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Lisa Everitt

• The Mail

  - 2008-03-08

  Tesco scored a packaging own goal when it sent a single Brussel sprout wrapped in a plastic bog to a customer who had mistyped his online order. The Moil reported how Howard Cooper had meant to ask for 100g of sprouts, but accidentally keyed in 0.01kg instead and received a...

  Tags: Cooper, Manufacturing, Tesco

• Prince Andrew opens store in crime-ridden LA district

  - 2008-02-08

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Britain's Prince Andrew formally opened a new supermarket in one of Los Angeles' most notorious districts on Thursday, cutting the ribbon on a store in crime-ridden Compton. The prince, 47, presided over a ceremony to mark the opening of a grocery store owned by the...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Manufacturing, Tesco