Topic: Tesco Corporation

How Tesco Tweaked Its Fresh & Easy Concept

Simon Uwins has helped Tesco, the $87 billion British grocer, enter the U.S. market with a new brand: Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market. Although the company stumbled out of the gate, missing analysts' sales expectations and its own expansion goals, after some tweaking, Fresh & Easy's same-store sales are up 30% this year.READ»

Does Carbon Labeling Overwhelm Grocery Shoppers? Tesco Says No

Tesco, a popular British supermarket chain, earlier this month started printing milk pint labels with information about the product's carbon footprint. It seems uncontroversial enough--Tesco already puts carbon labels on orange ...READ»

the lost symbol dan browns new novel

 the lost symbol dan browns new novel Retailers have unveiled an array of pre-order deals for the eagerly awaited new Dan Brown novel, The Lost Symbol, due out on 15th September.W H Smith is guaranteeing a price of ...READ»

More Creative Shops Are Commercializing Their Own Product Lines

With major advertisers cutting costs, creative shops are increasingly commercializing their own product ideas.READ»

Tesco Lets Shoppers Ditch Excess Product Packaging at Grocery Stores

Excess food packaging is a pain--what's the point, exactly, of having a plastic wrap inside a plastic tray inside a paper-based container? Tesco, a British grocery store chain, is letting customers ditch packaging right in the ...READ»

April Fools' Day: How Pranking Your Customers Can Buoy Your Brand [update]

UPDATE: If you're as April Fools'-obsessed as we are, you've probably spent the entire day trolling the Internet for pranks. And because so many big-name brands stepped up, we all had a lot to enjoy. (See our ...READ»

Continental Clothing Adds Carbon Footprint to Cleaning Label

The other day, I stumbled upon a label above a bathroom's paper towel dispenser detailing the "energy footprint"(total amount of energy involved in production) of a single towel. I had never seen anything like it before, ...READ»

The CSR Debate

In his recent column in The Financial Times, Stefan Stern implied that it is okay for businesses to employ child laborers and pursue environmentally unsustainable activities so long as it is within the law and it is in the interests ...READ»

The Silent Texas Highway

It's not a horror movie; it's the future of zero-carbon transportation. Fast Talk events give our readers around the country a chance to experience the excitement of Fast Company live, and yesterday's lunch was no exception. ...READ»

Socialized Media

In the mad rush to turn every digital dot in America into an advertising message, we forgot about the most important thing. The most important thing is, what's the point? READ»

Where's the Loyalty?

If only I had a dollar for every time a cashier asked whether I had one of those loyalty cards ... and another buck for every time I answered, "No." Hey -- give me 50 cents more each time I'm asked if I want one of their blasted cards ...READ»

The Future of Money

Like predictions about the paperless office, forecasts about a cashless society have been around for a while. For example, AC Nielsen research says that only 10% of transactions in the US will be cash by the year 2020. Logically this ...READ»

The Future of Groundswell

In the book, Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff write about how social media -- blogs, wikis, Facebook -- has impacted the way customer's interact with your brands. These elements of a social phenomenon -- the groundswell -- has created a permanent, long-lasting shift in the way the world works. Most companies see it as a threat. You can see it as an opportunity.READ»

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Are there any tangible benefits to coaching ?

Survey - Are there any tangible benefits to coaching and are there any positive financial returns? Headline report Background Information This online survey was conducted by Clear Coaching from October - ...READ»

Fast 50 Face-off: A Conversation with Innovation Guru Dev Patnaik

Innovation specialist Dev Patnaik of Jump Associates on which companies were ingenuity champs and which ones needed to "kick it up a notch."READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The World's Most Innovative Companies

Fast Talking

If you look at the top ten of the Fast 50, the world's most innovative companies, these are the companies that have got buzz working for that. Nintendo and the success of it Wii game console has been all over the media. Apple's ...READ»

50 Ways to Green Your Business

Half-a-hundred options for cleaning up your business, from the universal (catch that rainwater!) to the specific (lose the plastic bowls!). Mix, match--join in.READ»

Customers Don't Grow on Trees

How do you strike a balance between customer needs and the bottom line? A new way to balance two potentially contradictory demands.READ»

Leader - Feargal Quinn

Ireland's "Pope of Customer Service" dominates his market -- and continues to beat bigger rivals -- with a leadership philosophy that is at once folksy and radical. Behind all his success is one big question: How do we convince our customers to come back?READ»

Fresh & Bumpy

"Arrogant" is probably about the worst invective you could throw at anyone purporting to be in the business of building brands. After all, creating a brand is supposed to be premised on supreme respect for your customers. But, ...READ»

Sustainability: Sainsbury's Serious About Saving Energy… And Engaging its Shoppers

It's been a fashion statement for a few seasons now. Being Green is In. If you're a corporate entity trying to be socially responsible, there's no hotter way than endeavoring to save the earth. Ever heard the expression if you're ...READ»

Design Thursday: Proving Design Moves Markets

We know that great design fuels revenue and grows margins. But thus far, most companies -- with the possible exception of pioneers like Procter & Gamble and Whirlpool—have been unable to prove it. The main reason is that it's ...READ»

Lost in Translation -- How Do Linguistic Differences Affect Global Marketing?

I've lived in various parts of the world over the last few years, and although I'm one of those people who hardly ever watches television, even I've managed to pick up on the fact that the nature and content of commercials, ...READ»

An Alternative to Superbowl Ads

By Valentine's day, U.K.-based cartoonist and blogger Hugh McLeod will have visited 35 Tesco supermarkets from Inverness to Bournemouth as part of a roadtrip promoting the South African winery, Stormhoek. McLeod is marketing ...READ»

In Today's Papers

Water cooler conversation topics: AT&T Chases Tempting Idea "Fading phone biz pushes company in new direction: TV service" Bar Codes and Camera Phones Will Be a Shopper's Best Friend (Registration required) Microsoft Research's new ...READ»