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• 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

• Tesco Employees 'Vent' with Nasty Facebook Posts

  BNET - 2009-01-19

    Social networking can be a valuable part of a company's employment strategy. But some businesses are still coming to terms with its darker aspects, with Tesco just the latest to discover how nasty online staff exchanges can become, according to a news posting on Brand Republic....

  Tags: Facebook, Tesco, Social Networking, Balanced Scorecard, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing Research, Joanna Higgins

• Tesco launches online video service

  Strategy Eye - 2008-11-14

  UK supermarket giant Tesco is launching a video download service offering TV shows and movies from production companies such as Warner Bros and Sony Pictures Television International, reports C21 Media. Users will be able to buy videos from Tesco Digital,...

  Tags: Tesco, Online Video, Video, Corporate Communications, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Charlotte Eyre, Apple, Inc., Microsoft, Sony Pictures Television International, Tesco plc, Warner Bros. Entertainment Group

• Tesco's Real Strategy Secret

  BNET - 2008-09-08

    Sterling Performance's post on Tesco explains how the supermarket made the Balanced Scorecard central to its success. Yet I think it missed out a vital ingredient that I do not see in many other organisations. Persistence. Tesco has not been using the Balanced...

  Tags: Tesco, Persistence, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management, Stuart Cross

• Lessons from Tesco: Strategy is Everyone's Job

  BNET - 2008-09-04

  It's usually the recipient of media bashing, so it's refreshing to see Tesco's name attached to praise for a change. Robert Kaplan, posting on his return from the 2008 European Balanced Scorecard Summit, singles out Sir Terry and his team for praise. The challenge for...

  Tags: Job, Team, Tesco, Robert Kaplan, Team Management, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Management, Marketing, Marketing Research, Joanna Higgins

• 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

• Fresh Easy's Ford heads Peter Rabbit

  - 2008-02-02

  Children's food brand Peter Rabbit Organics has appointed former Tesco Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market operations manager Ben Ford as its new chief executive. Ford has spent the past two years in Tesco's international division, working on the launch of the retailer's Fresh & Easy chain in the United...

  Tags: brand, Branding, food, Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing, MARKETING, Tesco

• BNET Daily Dispatch: Home Depot, Microsoft, Tesco, and the U.S. Dollar

  - 2007-04-17

  Home Depot announced today the largest environmental labeling initiative in the history of American retailing. The program will tag almost 3,000 products with the "Eco Option" label, indicating superior environmental performance.  “Who in the world has a chance to have a bigger impact on this sector than Home Depot?” said...

  Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Hines, Home Depot Inc., Google Inc., U.S., Internet, Microsoft Corp., Mobile, Tesco

• Tesco unveils logo for United States sites.(MARKETING STRATEGIES: INDUSTRY NEWS)

  - 2007-03-01

  In January, Tesco announced that it intends to use an image of a clock crossed with a green apple to symbolize the offerings of a network of small supermarkets it plans to open in California, Nevada and Arizona this year. In January, Tesco...

  Tags: Tesco, marketing

• Now it's Tesco's turn to object to new store

  - 2007-01-13

  It is usually on the wrong end of planning objections--but now Tesco has found itself in the unusual position of opposing a retail development. It is among a number of parties in Ireland to have lodged objections with the Irish Planning Appeals Board challenging permission granted to Swedish furniture...

  Tags: IKEA, Manufacturing, MARKETING, Tesco