Coordinates | 09°28′00″N40°49′00″N |
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name | Tesco plc |
logo | |
type | Public limited company |
traded as | |
foundation | (East London) |
founder | Jack Cohen |
defunct | |
location | Cheshunt, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom |
locations | 5,380 stores (As at Feb 2010) (''see table below'') |
key people | |
industry | Retailing |
products | Groceries, consumer goods, financial services, telecoms |
revenue | £60.93 billion (2010/11) |
operating income | £3.81 billion (2010/11) |
net income | £2.67 billion (2010/11) |
market capitalisation | £21.8 bn (May 2009) |
aum | |
num employees | 472,000 (2010) |
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Tesco plc is a global grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues (after Wal-Mart and Carrefour) and the second-largest measured by profits (after Wal-Mart). It has stores in 14 countries across Asia, Europe and North America and is the grocery market leader in the UK (where it has a market share of around 30%), Malaysia, the Republic of Ireland and Thailand.
The company was founded by Jack Cohen in 1919 and opened its first store in 1929 in Burnt Oak, Edgware, Middlesex. The Tesco name first appeared after Cohen purchased a shipment of tea from ''T.E. Stockwell'' and combined those initials with the first two letters of his surname. Originally a UK-focused grocery retailer, Tesco has diversified both geographically and into areas such as the retailing of books, clothing, electronics, furniture, petrol and software; financial services; telecoms and internet services; DVD rental; and music downloads.
Tesco is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
During the 1950s and the 1960s Tesco grew organically, and also through acquisitions, until it owned more than 800 stores. The company purchased 70 ''Williamsons'' stores (1957), 200 ''Harrow Stores'' outlets (1959), 212 ''Irwins'' stores (1960, beating Express Dairies Premier Supermarkets to the deal), 97 ''Charles Phillips'' stores (1964) and the Victor Value chain (1968) (sold to Bejam in 1986).
Originally specialising in food and drink, it has diversified into areas such as clothing, electronics, financial services, telecoms, home, health, car, dental and pet insurance, retailing and renting DVDs, CDs, music downloads, Internet services and software.
Jack Cohen's business motto was "pile it high and sell it cheap", to which he added an internal motto of "YCDBSOYA" (You Can't Do Business Sitting On Your Arse) which he used to motivate his sales force.
In May 1987 Tesco completed its hostile takeover of the Hillards chain of 40 supermarkets in the North of England for £220 million.
In 1994, the company took over the supermarket chain William Low, successfully fighting off Sainsbury's for control of the Dundee-based firm, which operated 57 stores. This paved the way for Tesco to expand its presence in Scotland, which was weaker than in England. In 2006 Inverness was branded as "Tescotown", because well over 50p in every £1 spent on food is believed to be spent in its three Tesco stores.
Tesco introduced a loyalty card, branded 'Clubcard', in 1995 and later an Internet shopping service. As of November 2006 Tesco was the only food retailer to make online shopping profitable. In 1996 the typeface of the logo was changed to the current version with stripe reflections underneath, whilst the corporate font used for store signage was changed from the familiar "typewriter" font that had been used since the 1970s. Terry Leahy assumed the role of Chief Executive on 21 February 1997, the appointment having been announced on 21 November 1995.
On 21 March 1997 Tesco announced the purchase of the retail arm of Associated British Foods, which consisted of the Quinnsworth, Stewarts and Crazy Prices chains in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, plus associated businesses, for £640 million. The deal was approved by the European Commission on 6 May 1997. This acquisition gave it both a major presence in (and marked a return to) the Republic of Ireland and a larger presence in Northern Ireland than Sainsbury's, which had begun its move into the province in 1995.
In 1997 Tesco and Esso (part of Exxonmobil) forged a business alliance that included several petrol filling stations on lease from Esso, with Tesco operating the attached stores under the Express format. In turn Esso operates the forecourts and sells their fuel via the Tesco store. 200 Tesco/Esso stores now exist across the UK.
In July 2001 Tesco became involved in internet grocery retailing in the USA when it obtained a 35% stake in GroceryWorks. In 2002 Tesco purchased 13 HIT hypermarkets in Poland. It also made a major move into the UK convenience store market with its purchase of T & S Stores, owner of 870 convenience stores in the One Stop, Dillons and Day & Nite chains in the UK.
In October 2003 the company launched a UK telecoms division, comprising mobile and home phone services, to complement its existing Internet service provider business. In June 2003 Tesco purchased the C Two-Network in Japan. It also acquired a majority stake in Turkish supermarket chain Kipa. In January 2004 Tesco acquired Adminstore, owner of 45 Cullens, Europa, and Harts convenience stores, in and around London. In August 2004, it also launched a broadband service. In Thailand Tesco Lotus was a joint venture of the Charoen Pokphand Group and Tesco, but facing criticism over the growth of hypermarkets CP Group sold its Tesco Lotus shares in 2003. In late 2005 Tesco acquired the 21 remaining Safeway/BP stores after Morrisons dissolved the Safeway/BP partnership. In mid 2006 Tesco purchased an 80% stake in Casino's Leader Price supermarkets in Poland. They will be rebranded into small Tesco stores. In 2003, Tesco took part in a joint venture with O2 to form the Tesco Mobile mobile virtual network operator.
In 2007 Tesco was placed under investigation by the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for acting as part of a cartel of five supermarkets (Safeway, Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Sainsburys) and a number of dairy companies to fix the price of milk, butter and cheese. In December 2007 Asda, Sainsburys and the former Safeway admitted that they acted covertly against the interests of consumers while publicly claiming that they were supporting 5,000 farmers recovering from the foot-and-mouth crisis. They were fined a total of £116 million. Tesco, which maintains that it was not a part of the cartel, is still under investigation by the OFT.
Beginning in 1997 when Terry Leahy took over as CEO, Tesco began marketing itself using the phrase "The Tesco Way" to describe the company's core purposes, values, principles, and goals This phrase became the standard marketing speak for Tesco as it expanded domestically and internationally under Leahy's leadership, implying a shift by the company to focus on people, both customers and employees.
A core part of the Tesco expansion strategy has been its innovative use of technology. It was one of the first to build self-service till and use cameras to reduce queues.
To protect its brand image, and given its expansion plans in Thailand, Tesco has recently been employing a policy of launching defamation proceedings. In November 2007, Tesco sued a Thai academic and a former minister for civil libel and criminal defamation. Tesco is insisting that the two pay £1.6 million and £16.4 million plus two years' imprisonment respectively. They have been alleged to have misstated that Tesco's Thai market amounts to 37% of its global revenues, amongst criticism of Tesco's propensity to put small retailers out of business.
Tesco's main advertising slogan is "Every little helps". Its advertisements in print and on television mainly consist of product shots (or an appropriate image, such as a car when advertising petrol) against a white background, with a price or appropriate text (e.g., "Tesco Value") superimposed on a red circle. On television, voiceovers are provided by recognisable actors and presenters, such as Barbara Windsor, James Nesbitt, Jane Horrocks, Terry Wogan, Dawn French, Ray Winstone, Neil Morrissey, Martin Clunes, David Jason, David Tennant and Kathy Burke among others.
Starting during the 2005/2006 football season, the company now sponsors the Tesco Cup, a football competition for young players throughout the UK.
In 2009 Tesco used the phrase, “Change for Good” as advertising, which is trade marked by Unicef for charity usage but not for commercial or retail use, which prompted the agency to say, "It is the first time in Unicef’s history that a commercial entity has purposely set out to capitalise on one of our campaigns and subsequently damage an income stream which several of our programmes for children are dependent on.” They went on to call on the public “...who have children’s welfare at heart, to consider carefully who they support when making consumer choices.”
Tesco's most famous advert was "Checkout 82," which was made in 1982, where a till would have a receipt coming out of it with the prices on. This advert had synth pop music as the backing and people singing "Check it out, check it out".
Adverts in the late 90s had Prunella Scales as Dotty Turnbull, arguing about Tesco prices. In 2003, adverts showed items and shopping trolleys talking about Tesco. Late 2000s adverts have included many celebrities and celebrity voice-overs such as The Spice Girls and the voice of actors James Nesbitt and Jane Horrocks.
The largest store in England by floor space is Tesco Extra in Walkden, with of floorspace. In 2011, a Tesco Extra will be constructed in St.Helens adjacent to the new St.Helens RLFC Stadium. The largest in Scotland is the Port Glasgow store, which opened in July 2007 with of floorspace. The largest in Wales is at Parc Fforestfach, Swansea, which is constructed in 2003. The 200th Extra store was opened in October 2010 in Bishop Auckland.
Other large stores include Bar Hill, Cleethorpes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Milton Keynes, Stockton-on-Tees and Watford, which are all in the range. Newer stores are usually on two floors, with the ground floor mainly for food and the first floor for clothing, electronics and entertainment. Some stores that did not have the second floor have been converted to this format in recent years. Most Tesco Extra stores have a café and as of October 2009, all stores have a Tesco Tech Support Team.
In May 2005 Tesco announced a trial non-food only format near Manchester and Aberdeen, and the first store opened in October 2005:
A further five stores opened before it stopped being a trial, and there is now a plan to open many more stores.
;Current Stores offer all of Tesco's ranges except food in warehouse-style units in retail parks. Tesco is using this format because only 20% of its customers have access to a Tesco Extra, and the company is restricted in how many of its superstores it can convert into Extras and how quickly it can do so. Large units for non-food retailing are much more readily available.
There are currently 13 Homeplus stores nationwide. The newest Homeplus store opened in Chester in July 2009.
Two more were due to open in the first half of 2009 at sites around the country. All of these were to feature the Order and Collect desk where customers can purchase and collect most items straightaway.
! Format | ! Number | ! Totalarea (m²) | ! Totalarea (sq ft) | ! Meanarea (m²) | ! Meanarea (sq ft) | ! Percentageof space | ! +/- Stores2010/11 |
Tesco Extra | 212 | 1,400,885 | 15,079,000 | 6,608 | 71,127 | 41.08% | 22 |
Tesco Superstores | 470 | 1,297,112 | 13,962,000 | 2,760 | 29,706 | 38.04% | 15 |
Tesco Metro | 186 | 194,632 | 2,095,000 | 1,046 | 11,263 | 5.73% | 5 |
Tesco Express | 1,285 | 272,392 | 2,932,000 | 212 | 2,282 | 7.99% | 155 |
One Stop | 599 | 74,044 | 797,000 | 142 | 1,530 | 2.04% | 8 |
Tesco Homeplus | 13 | 51,468 | 554,000 | 3,790 | 42,615 | 1.53% | 0 |
Dobbies | 28 | 121,053 | 1,303,000 | 4,323 | 46,536 | 3.57% | 3 |
Total | 2,715 | 3,411,586 | 36,722,000 | 1,257 | 13,526 | 100% | 208 |
On 28 July 2008 Tesco announced that they were buying out the Royal Bank of Scotland's 50% stake in the company for £950 million. In October 2009 the name of Tesco Personal Finance was changed to Tesco Bank.
The Technika brand is managed in-house by Tesco alongside its other brands, such as Tesco and Tesco Value. Customer support is offered through the Tesco Electrical Helpline or in-store through Tesco Tech Support.
MOBILE: In autumn 2003, Tesco Mobile was launched as a joint venture with O2. In November 2009 Tesco announced over 2 million UK customers are using this service. A similar O2 based service has since been launched in Ireland and Slovakia.
ISP: In August 2004 Tesco broadband, an ADSL-based service delivered via BT phone lines, was launched in partnership with NTL. In November 2009 Tesco announced a new partnership with Cable & Wireless, and a fresh focus on this business area.
VOIP: In January 2006, Tesco Internet Phone, a Voice over Internet Protocol, VoIP, service was launched in conjunction with Freshtel of Australia. This service was shut down in 2010.
PHONE SHOPS: In November 2009 Tesco announced it now has 100 Phone Shops embedded within larger Tesco Extra stores, and stated an intention to open up to 500 such shops across the UK in the medium term. In April 2010 the first Tesco Phone shop opened in Slovakia.
Tesco first started selling petrol in 1974. Tesco sells 95, 97 and 99 RON (a fuel developed by Greenergy of which Tesco is a shareholder) petrol on a retail basis from forecourts at most superstore and Express locations. Tesco have recently diversified into biofuels, offering petrol-bioethanol and diesel-biodiesel blends instead of pure petrol and diesel at their petrol stations, and now offering Greenergy 100% biodiesel at many stores in the southeast of the United Kingdom.
On 28 February 2007 motorists in South East England reported that their cars were breaking down. This was due to petrol sold by Tesco and others being contaminated with silicon, Tesco has been criticised with claims that they had been alerted to the problem as early as 12 February 2007. On 6 March, Tesco offered to pay for any damage caused by the faulty petrol, after printing full page apologies in many national newspapers.
Holders receive Clubcard statements 6 times a year, which often feature extra point coupons and money-off coupons. These can be spent in-store, online or on various Clubcard deals.
Tesco was cited in a Wall Street Journal article as using the intelligence from the Clubcard to thwart Wal-Mart's initiatives in the UK.
In May 1984, in Gateshead, England, the world's first recorded online home shopper, Mrs Jane Snowball, purchased groceries from her local Tesco store in the world's first recorded online shopping transaction from the home.
Tesco has operated on the internet since 1994 and was the first retailer in the world to offer a robust home shopping service in 1996. Tesco.com was formally launched in 2000. It also has online operations in the Republic of Ireland and South Korea. Currently it's also considering entering Polish market. Grocery sales are available within delivery range of selected stores, goods being hand-picked within each store, in contrast to the warehouse model followed by Ocado. In 2003, tesco.com's CEO at the time, John Browett, received the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for the innovative processes he used to support this online grocery service.
On 1 October 2006, Tesco announced that it will be selling six own-brand budget software packages for under £20 each, including office and security suites, in a partnership with software firm Formjet. As Formjet is exclusive distributor for Panda Software and Ability Plus Software, packages from these companies are likely to feature.
Tesco offers an internet-based DVD rental service, which is operated by LOVEFiLM and a music download service.
In late 2004 the amount of floorspace Tesco operated outside the United Kingdom surpassed the amount it had in its home market for the first time, although the United Kingdom still accounted for more than 75% of group revenue due to lower sales per unit area outside the UK.
In September 2005 Tesco announced that it was selling its operations in Taiwan to Carrefour and purchasing Carrefour's stores in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Both companies stated that they were concentrating their efforts in countries where they had strong market positions.
The following table shows the number of stores, total store size in area and sales for Tesco's international operations. The store numbers and floor area figures are as at 27 February 2010. This information is taken from the .
! Country | ! Entered | ! Stores | ! Area (m² (sq ft)) | ! Mean Store Area (m² (sq ft)) | ! +/- Stores 2010/11 | |
China | 2004 | 105 | 755,766 (8,135,000) | 7,198 (77,476) | 17 | |
Czech Republic | 1996 | 158 | 486,626 (5,238,000) | 3,080 (33,152) | 22 | |
Hungary | 1994 | 205 | 667,508 (7,185,000) | 3,256 (35,049) | 29 | |
Republic of Ireland | 1997 | 130 | 301,099 (3,241,000) | 2,316 (24,931) | 11 | |
Japan | 2003 | 140 | 46,916 (505,000) | 335 (3,607) | 2 | |
Malaysia | 2002 | 39 | 308,903 (3,325,000) | 8,129 (87,500) | 7 | |
Poland | 1992 | 371 | 756,788 (8,146,000) | 2,040 (21,957) | 35 | |
Slovakia | 1996 | 97 | 314,291 (3,383,000) | 3,240 (34,876) | 16 | |
South Korea | 1999 | 354 | 1,084,736 (11,676,000) | 3,064 (32,983) | 49 | |
Thailand | 1998 | 782 | 1,053,786 (11,342,000) | 1,348 (14,504) | 119 | |
Turkey | 2003 | 121 | 594,487 (6,399,000) | 4,913 (52,884) | 16 | |
United Kingdom (for comparison) | 1919 | 2,715 | 3,411,586 (36,722,000) | 1,257 (13,526) | 205 | |
United States | 2007 | 164 | 199,091 (2,143,000) | 1,214 (13,067) | 19 | |
Total (not including UK) | 2,666 | 6,569,997 (70,718,000) | Mean: 2,465 (26,536) | 336 | ||
Total (including UK) | '''5,381 | ''' | 9,981,583 (107,440,000) | Mean: 1,855 (19,970) | 544 |
Tesco re-entered the Irish market in 1997 after the purchase of Power Supermarkets Ltd.
The country's newspaper of record the Irish Times in April 2011 said that "Increasingly, Ireland is being viewed as a provincial backwater by the parent company – albeit a very profitable little backwater – and all the strategic decisions are being taken in the UK.
It now operates from 101 stores across Ireland. Like Tesco stores in the UK, these offer a home delivery shopping service available to 80% of the Irish population as well as petrol, mobile telephone, personal finance, flower delivery service and a weight-loss programme. Also available is Tesco's loyalty programme, the Clubcard.
Tesco is now the grocery market leader in the Republic of Ireland, with a reported November 2005 share of 26.3%. Tesco Ireland also claims to be the largest purchaser of Irish food with an estimated €1.5 billion annually. Tesco Ireland operates a small number of Tesco Extra hypermarkets in the Republic of Ireland, with Clarehall Extra on the Malahide Road being the first to open in 2006. Tesco's largest hypermarket store in Europe, with a floorspace of 18,500 m², opened in Naas in Co Kildare in November 2010.
On 14 May 2008, Tesco agreed to purchase 36 hypermarkets with a combination of food and non-food products from E-Land for $1.9 billion (£976 million) in its biggest single acquisition, making Tesco the second largest in the country. The majority of the E-Land stores formerly belonged to French retailer Carrefour before 2006 and most of the stores will be converted to Tesco Homeplus outlets. Tesco's South Korean discount store chain, Home Plus, currently has 66 outlets.
Although the planned rate of expansion was not maintained, largely because of the recession, Fresh & Easy now (August 2011) operates 177 stores in Arizona, California and Nevada.
All figures below are for the Tesco's financial years, which run for 52 or 53 week periods to late February. Up to 27 February 2007 period end the numbers include non-UK and Ireland results for the year ended on 31 December 2006 in the accounting year. The figures in the table below include 52 weeks/12 months of turnover for both sides of the business as this provides the best comparative.
{|align="right"| class="wikitable" style="margin:0 auto 0 auto" ! 52/3 weeks ended ! Turnover (£m) ! Profit before tax (£m) ! Profit for year (£m) ! Basic earnings per share (p) |- | 26 February 2011 | 67,573 | 3,535 | 2,671 | 33.10 |- | 27 February 2010 | 62,537 | 3,176 | 2,336 | 31.66 |- | 28 February 2009 | 54,300 | 3,128 | 2,166 | 28.92 |- | 23 February 2008 | 47,298 | 2,803 | 2,130 | 26.95 |- | 24 February 2007 | 46,600 | 2,653 | 1,899 | 22.36 |- | 25 February 2006 | 38,300 | 2,210 | 1,576 | 19.70 |- | 26 February 2005 | 33,974 | 1,962 | 1,366 | 17.44 |- | 28 February 2004 | 30,814 | 1,600 | 1,100 | 15.05 |- | 22 February 2003 | 26,337 | 1,361 | 946 | 13.54 |- | 23 February 2002 | 23,653 | 1,201 | 830 | 12.05 |- | 24 February 2001 | 20,988 | 1,054 | 767 | 11.29 |- | 26 February 2000 | 18,796 | 933 | 674 | 10.07 |- | 27 February 1999 | 17,158 | 842 | 606 | 9.14 |- | 28 February 1998 | 16,452 | 760 | 532 | 8.12 |}
As of its 2006 year end Tesco was the fourth largest retailer in the world behind Wal-Mart, Carrefour and Home Depot. Tesco moved ahead of Home Depot during 2007, following the sale of Home Depot's professional supply division and a decline in the value of the U.S. dollar against the British Pound. METRO was only just behind and might move ahead again if the euro strengthens against the pound, but METRO's sales include many billions of wholesale turnover, and its retail turnover is much less than Tesco's.
At 24 February 2007 Tesco operated 1,988 stores in the UK with of floorspace and 1,275 outside the UK with of floorspace.
Despite being in a recession, Tesco made record profits for a British retailer in the year to February 2010, during which its underlying pre-tax profits increased by 10.1% to £3.4 billion. Tesco now plans to create 16,000 new jobs, of which 9,000 will be in the UK.
{|align="left"| class="wikitable" style="margin:0 auto 0 auto" ! Supermarket ! Market ShareDecember 2009 ! +/- fromDecember 2008 |- style="background:#ff9;" || Tesco || 30.5% || 0.1% |- | Asda | 16.9% | 0.1% |- | Sainsbury's | 16.3% | 0.2% |- | Morrisons | 12.3% | 0.5% |}
Tesco have been criticised for aggressively pursuing critics of the company in Thailand. Writer and former MP Jit Siratranont is facing up to two years in jail and a £16.4 million libel damages claim for saying that Tesco was expanding aggressively at the expense of small local retailers. Tesco served him with writs for criminal defamation and civil libel.
Criticism of Tesco includes allegations of stifling competition due to its undeveloped "land bank", and breaching planning laws.
In December 2006 ''The Grocer'' magazine published a study that named Tesco as having the slowest checkouts of the six major supermarkets. Somerfield had the shortest queues with an average wait of 4 min 23 seconds. In order of least time spent at the checkout, the other major supermarkets were Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons.
''The Grocer'' also named Asda as the cheapest UK supermarket (based on 33 items). Tesco was second and Sainsbury's and Morrisons joint third. Tesco price check tends to differ saying out of 7134 (compared to Asda) products, (Survey carried out between 9 July 2007 and 11 July 2007) Tesco is cheaper: 1835 (compared to 1251 the previous week), Tesco is more expensive: 975 (compared to 984 the previous week) and Tesco is the same price: 4324 (compared to 4996 the previous week).
Tesco continues to advertise on Fox News's controversial Glenn Beck Show despite 60 major US companies, and a number of UK companies, pulling their advertisements. The cancellations were largely a consequence of Beck's accusation that Barack Obama was racist and had a "deep-seated hatred for white people". In contrast Waitrose has already ceased advertising on the show.
Following these revelations, several MPs called for an inquiry into Tesco's tax avoidance schemes.
Tesco issued a writ for libel against ''The Guardian'' five weeks later. Tesco denied that it had avoided paying £1 billion corporation tax but for legal reasons refused to answer further questions or to clarify the purpose of the tax structure they had created. Further investigations by ''The Guardian'' discovered that the tax structures were aimed at avoiding Stamp Duty Land Tax, and not corporation tax as originally thought. SDLT is levelled at 4%, and corporate tax at around 30%, so the figure of £1 billion tax avoided by Tesco has been revised to an estimated £90–£100 million. According to ''the Guardian'', "Tesco has been involved in a game of cat and mouse with HM Revenue & Customs since 2003. On three occasions when the government has closed a loophole to prevent avoidance, Tesco has taken advantage of ingenious schemes to get around it. Tesco still has 36 stores wrapped up in UK limited partnerships—with Cayman Islands registered partners—which were established in 2006 before the latest loophole was closed."
In September 2008, Tesco dropped the legal action after ''The Guardian'' apologised for its story, acknowledging "These damaging allegations were unfounded and should not have been published. All profits generated by this sale and leaseback arrangement were earned by UK tax-resident companies and have been or will be included in Tesco's UK tax returns. The use of Cayman Island companies in the scheme was for legitimate stamp duty savings purposes." Costs were paid by the newspaper with undisclosed damages being paid to charity.
''The Guardian'''s parent company, Guardian Media Group, used a similar offshore arrangement to avoid tax during its takeover of Emap.
A 2006 article on the thisismoney website quoted various criticisms of the company's expansion and dominance of the UK supermarket scene. In 2007 residents in the Hall Green area of Birmingham made their opposition strongly evident when Tesco announced plans to open a store on the Robin Hood Lane, right next to a busy island in the suburb. The Local Liberal Democrat councillor actively opposed the store on the grounds that it would affect local businesses and consumer choice. Tesco received planning permission to open the store in April 2008 and residents made plans to boycott the store and continue to use local outlets. Since opening Tesco's deliveries have caused major traffic problems in the area and Birmingham City Council have announced plans to put a loading ban into force between 7:00 am and 10:00 am to relieve congestion. In 2008, opposition to a proposed expansion in Coventry was reported in the ''Coventry Telegraph''. In 2007 residents of Cambridge organised a campaign, "No Mill Road Tesco" that aimed to prevent Tesco from opening a store on Cambridge's Mill Road. This street runs just to the south of the centre of Cambridge which is a lively, cosmopolitan area home to many independent shops, delicatessens, cafes, and curry houses. In March 2008, Tesco's application was refused by the council. Tesco appealed, but lost the appeal in November 2008. The planning inspector dismissed the appeal on the grounds of highway safety. In mid-2008, while waiting for the appeal to be heard, Tesco applied for planning permission for an air conditioning and refrigeration plant, which was also rejected by the council. Tesco eventually opened a restricted size store with no external refrigeration plant or alcohol license in August 2009. In March 2007 residents in Bournville, Birmingham fought to maintain the historic alcohol free status of the area, in winning a court battle with Tesco, to prevent it selling alcohol in its local outlet. No shops are permitted to sell alcohol in the area and there are no pubs, bars or fast-food outlets in Bournville. Plans for a large Tesco store in St Albans, Hertfordshire, attracted widespread local opposition. This led to the formation of the "Stop St Albans Tesco Group". In June 2008, St Albans Council refused planning permission for the proposed store. In 2008, Tesco faced opposition to plans to build a new store in Tonypandy, South Wales. Local business protested against the plans and Tesco was later refused planning permission by the local council. Tesco later said they would appeal to the Welsh assembly, However the result of this has not emerged. In 2009, Tesco received planning permission to build a Tesco Express store on Hope Street, Liverpool despite there being a total of eight other Tesco stores (In Express, Metro and Superstore formats) within less than or equivalent to a mile from its proposed location. This initiated a campaign in the local area and a large Facebook group movement to prevent the construction going ahead. Tesco withdrew the plans on 3 September 2009 due to widespread opposition and condemnation from local people. In April 2011, longstanding opposition to a Tesco Express store in Cheltenham Road, Stokes Croft, Bristol, evolved into a violent clash between opponents and police. The recently-opened storefront was heavily damaged, and police reported the seizure of petrol bombs. Opponents have suggested that the store would damage small shops and harm the character of the area.
However the expansion of Tesco is not opposed by everyone. Plans for a new Tesco store in Immingham, North East Lincolnshire were warmly received by the local council and by members of the public.
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Philip Christopher Clarke (born 1933) was an Irish republican paramilitary ("volunteer") and politician.
The case appeared before the Northern Ireland High Court in August 1955. On 2 September, the court ruled that Clarke was ineligible for election and his Unionist opponent was declared duly elected.
When the House of Commons Library updated its list of previous Members of Parliament in 2009, Clarke was listed as having died, although the date of his death was not recorded.
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In addition, we may disclose any information, including personally identifiable information, we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal proceeding or governmental request.
We do not want you to receive unwanted e-mail from us. We try to make it easy to opt-out of any service you have asked to receive. If you sign-up to our e-mail newsletters we do not sell, exchange or give your e-mail address to a third party.
E-mail addresses are collected via the wn.com web site. Users have to physically opt-in to receive the wn.com newsletter and a verification e-mail is sent. wn.com is clearly and conspicuously named at the point of
collection.If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by e-mailing us at michaelw(at)wn.com
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during registration and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100 percent secure, however. Therefore, though we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If we decide to change our e-mail practices, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we think appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
If we make material changes to our e-mail practices, we will notify you here, by e-mail, and by means of a notice on our home page.
The advertising banners and other forms of advertising appearing on this Web site are sometimes delivered to you, on our behalf, by a third party. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, the third party may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. For more information on cookies, you can visit www.cookiecentral.com.
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell certain aspects of our entities or assets. In such transactions, user information, including personally identifiable information, generally is one of the transferred business assets, and by submitting your personal information on Wn.com you agree that your data may be transferred to such parties in these circumstances.