Tesco Promoted Or Demoted Bob Robbins?

Tesco Promoted Or Demoted Bob Robbins? Tesco: Being switched to special operations is often the corporate equivalent of being sent to Siberia. In some cases, however, it’s the opposite: the recipient can become the chief executive’s enforcer, a roamer who can’t be given a proper job title because that would put too many noses out [...]

Tesco Sausage Ad Chopped

Tesco sausage ad has been banned by the advertising watchdog, saying it misleadingly implied that the meat used for the sausages came from free-range pigs. Four

High Street Sales Plummet With The Temperature

The arctic weather is estimated to have cost retailers up to £750m in lost sales as new figures show the number of shoppers who ventured out at the weekend was down 20% on last year, with Wales and London hardest hit

It’s Going To Be A Cut-Price Christmas As Retailers Woo Shoppers Kept Away By Snow

Last-minute shoppers are set to bag a cut-price Christmas this year as retailers offer hefty discounts to boost spending before the looming government austerity drive. With just

Trent Hypermarket To Launch Tesco Products In India

Tata Group-promoted retail arm, Trent Hypermarket , today said it would be launching a range of food products from the basket of its joint venture company, Tesco, in India. The UK-based retailer giant, Tesco

Biyani Sees Future With Carrefour

Future Group CEO Kishore Biyani is in Paris as the country’s largest retailer has renewed its talks with Carrefour for a joint venture that could let Europe’s top retailer enter India

South Africans Left Divided As Walmart Muscles Its Way In

The world’s biggest retailer already has tills ringing across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Now the sprawling Arkansas-based discount megalith Walmart is trying its luck in Africa. South Africa’s labour movement is bracing itself

Retail Sales Slump As Heavy Snow Keeps Shoppers At Home

The UK’s high street is facing a disastrous drop in sales this weekend as heavy snow keeps shoppers at home on one of the most important weekends of the year for the retail sector. Visits to large out of town shopping centres

Indian Consumers Are Crossover Shoppers: Nielsen Study

Most urban consumers in the country, are crossover shoppers, frequenting both modern retail and neighbourhood groceries for different needs, says a new study by The Nielsen Company that strengthens the case for allowing multinationals such as Wal-Mart and Carrefour

Fuel Firm Greenergy’s Bid Could Make Tesco Top Petrol Retailer

Tesco could become of one Britain’s biggest petrol retailers through its investment in Greenergy, a major road fuel supplier, which is understood to have launched bids for 1,240 forecourts owned by