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City Spy: Tesco Price Drop bounces back up

12.10.11
More ammo for the supermarket price war cynics. Tesco's supposed Price Drop campaign on "3000 items" has created many a positive headline for the company, but guess what?... more

Justin King takes a swipe at Tesco as Sainsbury's 'gets it right'

05.10.11
J Sainsbury chief executive Justin King is crowing, claiming the supermarket is winning custom from Tesco... more

Warren Buffett ups his stake in Tesco

26.09.11
Tesco chief executive Phil Clarke gets a vote of confidence from a key shareholder - Warren Buffett is upping his stake in the supermarket giant... more

Talk of price-war move by Tesco puts Ocado in the firing line

21.09.11
Rumours that Tesco is poised to unveil a major price war hit supermarket shares today and led to further negative City comment about the prospects for Ocado.... more

Tesco sparks supermarket price war

21.09.11
Shoppers are set for welcome relief on grocery bills with a supermarket price war as Tesco is expected to announce a 'price offensive' ... more

Hilton Food gains from higher meat prices‎

13.09.11
Meat packaging firm Hilton Food said higher meat prices contributed to strong turnover growth in the first half... more

Let's focus on a real worry as green belt is unbuckled

09.09.11
The palaver over new developer-friendly planning rules this week forced Chancellor George Osborne to support planning minister Greg Clark in a row that has generated far more heat than light... more

City Spy: Market a slave to its reputation

11.08.11
So the stock market has been badgering us to realise that we're all doomed. And commentators think this is something to be taken seriously... more

Tesco hits back after fine for cheese price fixing

10.08.11
Tesco call for the Office of Fair Trading to be dismantled after being hit with fine for colluding with suppliers and other retailers to fix cheese prices between 2002 and 2003... more

Bargain-hunters boost banks after stress-test battering

19.07.11
After a sell-off, the bargain-hunters usually swoop... more

Tesco's top 500 face pay and bonus shake-up

31.05.11
Seven out of the eight executive directors at Tesco were paid more than £2 million last year, but almost all of them took considerable pay cuts from the previous year... more

Tesco tests 'supermarket satnav' for mobile phones

26.05.11
A supermarket chain has tested the first 'in-store satnav' to help shoppers find goods at one of their London stores... more

Tesco buys 80% of Blinkbox in market fight with Amazon

20.04.11
Tesco buys an 80% stake in online TV and film streaming website Blinkbox as the supermarket giant steps up its fight against internet retailer Amazon... more

Tesco reprimanded for misleading ad in Asda price war

13.04.11
Tesco is reprimanded for a national advertisement in the latest round of a price promotion battle with rival Asda... more

Return to sender could put HMV in heartbreak hotel

10.03.11
Will Tesco be the final nail in HMV's coffin? I ask because of the news that Europe's largest retailer is now asking record companies to deliver their albums to it on a sale-or-return basis. This is a radical shift in an industry which had been able to bank on getting the lion's share of its physical sales revenues up front from wholesalers... more

Supermarkets need shake-up as prices pinch starts to hurt

01.03.11
Tesco and its supposed rivals will moan with all their considerable might, and in the background their lobbyists will get to work, but neither activity should be enough to prevent (yet)another inquiry into competition in the supermarket sector... more

Encore and Nautical plummet after Premier's North Sea well disappoints

08.02.11
"Not for widows or orphans" is the City cliché that traders often apply to the small-cap energy explorers. Today provided a lesson why... more

Tesco and Marks & Spencer help cut Whitehall bills

05.08.10
Retail giants will advise Whitehall departments on how to cut energy use by 10 per cent during the coalition’s first year in office... more

Hilton Food gains growth across Europe

22.07.10
Meat-packaging firm Hilton Food says volumes grew in the first half and that it will make further progress ... more

Style in the aisle as Tesco seeks site for West End fashion store

09.07.10
An unlikely new name is aiming to muscle in on the West End's world of haute couture with its first stand-alone fashion store — Tesco... more

Tesco takes a tumble after earnings are called to account

30.06.10
Supermarket titan Tesco sees its shares suffer after Citigroup accuses it of “consistently aggressive” accounting... more

Tesco stands firm on 'excessive' executive pay

18.06.10
Tesco is forced to defend the pay packet of its American boss as a lobby group urges shareholders to protest at the supermarket’s AGM... more

Sainsbury's shoppers slam brakes on sales

16.06.10
Sainsbury matches its arch-rival Tesco with slowing sales growth as the rise in food prices stop rising so quickly and consumers become more cautious under the new Government... more

Tesco looks to World Cup fever as sales growth stalls

15.06.10
Tesco says the consumer recovery is keeping pace despite British sales growth almost halting over the past three months... more

Supermarkets sign up to ban booze before England games

11.06.10
Some supermarkets in central London will ban alcohol sales before England matches in a bid to curb antisocial behaviour during the World Cup... more

Losing Tesco candidates could be tempted by a move to rivals

08.06.10
Analysis: Officially, it’s love and peace on the Tesco board - but rivals may have a good chance of luring away top figures... more

OFT forced to drop price fixing claims against supermarkets

30.04.10
The Office of Fair Trading is forced into an embarrassing climbdown as it drops price-fixing allegations against dairy producers and supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrison’s... more

City Spy: Orpington Lib-Dems get cosy with Tesco

22.04.10
Whatever Nick Clegg may say at tonight’s second TV debate, maybe the Liberal Democrats aren’t so different from the other two main parties... more

Tesco says slump is over as it makes record £3.4bn profit

20.04.10
Video: Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy announces a 10.1% rise in annual profits to a record £3.4 billion, and pledges to create 9,000 British jobs this year despite the planned rise in National Insurance... more

Tesco set to defy slump with record £3.2bn profits

16.04.10
Tesco made record profits equivalent to about £150 for every family in Britain despite falling living standards in the recession, figures next week will show... more


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