A more muted profit forecast from UK meat processor Hilton Food Group sent shares in the Tesco and Ahold supplier down in early trading this morning (11 September). After reporting flat half-year profits, Hilton said it now expects annual ...
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When I first approached this feature I thought that a test of several power options would be the right way to deliver some useful verdicts on performance and value. Then the reality sunk in about the vast range of options available and the ...
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Confectioner The Jelly Bean Factory has extended its manufacturing facility in Ireland to include an additional production line. The addition of the line at the Dublin plant will produce a new range of gourmet Belgian chocolate coated ...
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Tesco is to invest in a further five Lotus-anchored shopping malls in Thailand. "This demonstrates the continued success of Tesco's strategy to release value from our international property portfolio," Tesco said. The proposal has been ...
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Tesco has completed the sale and leaseback of several Homeplus stores in South Korea, netting the retailer around GBP300m (US$476m). Tesco said yesterday (23 August) that it has successfully concluded the deal with IGIS Asset Management, ...
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Tesco has announced plans to add traffic-light labels to the nutritional information it puts on products. The decision, revealed today (22 August), is a major change in strategy from Tesco, which has favoured labels that show guideline ...
UK-based supermarket chain Tesco has recalled its own-brand Prawn Masala and Pilau Rice over incorrect'use by'date,according to the Food Standards Agency(FSA). The FSA noted that the product should have'use by'date of 22 August ...
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David Weymouth, group director of operations and risk at insurance giant RSA, talks to Computer Weekly about the importance of training the next generation of IT leaders; the key changes affecting finance technology; and why a government ...
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Tesco.com,one of the biggest retail websites in the UK,is to be asked to explain the alleged poor security practices of its website to the Information Commissioner's Office(ICO). The inquiry follows investigations by security ...
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Tesco is starting to regain ground on its rivals in the UK, industry analysts Kantar Worldpanel claimed today (14 August) as they issued their latest sales data on the country's grocery sector. The UK grocery market grew by 3.9% in the 12 ...
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The global financial services sector still faces upheaval, five years after the credit crunch decimated its ranks. But how have IT strategies changed in the years since the UK government was forced to nationalise Northern Rock? Five years ...
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Supermarket chain Iceland is to re-open the online store it closed six years ago due to rising demand from customers. Iceland pioneered online supermarket shopping as long ago as 1996,well before Tesco,Sainsbury's and other big ...
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Businesses have a unique opportunity steal a march on competitors by introducing genuinely innovative mobile phone applications, analyst group Gartner claimed today. But if they are to succeed in exploiting the next generation of mobile ...
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Huddle co-founder and CEO Alastair Mitchell talks about the simplicity of cloud-based collaboration, the technology that came before, and resurrecting dead content. The application service provider (ASP) model was a buzz in the dot com ...
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Tesco is launching an extensive line line of Italian products through the Italiano range. The Italiano line includes pizzas, calzones, pizza crust dunkers, salad dressings, breads and pastas. With Italian food representing a sizeable ...
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