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In September of 2013 it was reported by the BBC that Tesco ‘offloaded’ the Fresh and Easy name not long after it filing for bankruptcy: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24040346)

Topshop also have an app for all smartphone, where customers can use to also purchase item, gather information and so on, this is very effective for their customers because this give their customers the advantage to shop from anywhere, during business hours.

New Media Age (2005) ran a profile of Laura Wade-Gery CEO of Tesco.com since January 2004 which provides an interesting insight into how the business has run. In her first year, total sales were increased 24% to £719 million. Laura, is 40 years old, a keen athlete and has followed a varied career developing from a MA in History at Magdalen College, Oxford, an MBA from Insead; Manager and partner in Kleinwort Benson; Manager and senior consultant, Gemini Consulting; Targeted marketing director (Tesco Clubcard), and Group strategy director, Tesco Stores.

This information Tesco is gaining helps them as they are able to achieve more customers so this increase the rival competitors and they are also gaining an increase in profit and customers due to the fact more people are shopping at Tesco and using the services they provide, this also means Tesco are able to develop even more.

Originally Tesco used to be only in-store, by expanding their services online they have created many benefits and opportunities that have changed the way they sell and do business. They are able to communicate easier with their customers, provide an excellent service to their customers and further promote the business with efficiency.

When looking at the political factors for Tesco, and, as it operates in a globalized environment with locations across the world, the company’s performance is extremely influenced by the political and legislative functions of each country. In terms of legislations under employment, the government really encourages retailers to provide work-place opportunities from, flexible, lower paid, local based jobs to highly skilled, paid, and centrally located jobs (Balchin, 1994) to meet certain demands relating to students, senior citizens and working parents. The company understands that while being in the retail industry, it has a large impact on individuals and the work place (the development of new stores may often be seen as a conflict to other retail sectors due to the fact that the ‘traditional’ stores go out of business or are forced to cut certain cost in order to being able to compete) as being a fundamentally local and labour-intensive sector.

● To identify Tesco’s result over the past 3 years and the contributing factor to it.

These may be as a result of Tesco's troubles from accounting scandal that has obligated changes in its top management, a sinking share price, decreasing sales and loss of consumer confidence as consumers turn to discount rivals such as Lidl and Aldi. Nevertheless, Tesco has put in place a road map to address the key issues by rebuilding trust with shareholders and stakeholders, as well as to win consumers’ confidence in Tesco’s brand.

Profits for Tesco’s operations in Europe, Asia and Ireland increased by 78% during the last fiscal year. The company has a strong brand image, and is associated with good quality, trustworthy goods that represent excellent value. Tesco’s innovative ways of improving the customer shopping experience, as well as its efforts to branch out into finance and insurance have also capitalized on this.

Ocado, the world’s leading online grocery retailer, has been elected the best online supermarket in the UK since being founded in early 2000 by Tim Steiner, Jason Gissing and Jonathan Fairman. (Hall, 2010) With the rapid expansion, Ocado develops and operates a unique business model which only focuses on customers’ online shopping and emphasises the partnership with Waitrose. There are ranges of products offered in Ocado, including the own brand groceries from the Waitrose supermarket chain; and a range of Carrefour 's products. Ocado is aiming at improving the customers’ shopping experience and changing the way people shop for groceries. “The strategic objective of Ocado Group plc is to align the interests of customers, investors and

This new rationale has helped Tesco meet their customers’ desires and demands, attract upper market segments, become more cost-efficient, increase home delivery accuracy, and to collect data about their customers’ purchase habits. One of the major advantages of Tesco Direct is customers are able to pick their products online and have them ready for pick up when the customer desires, this has allowed Tesco the opportunity to expand their customer base. Online orders allowed Tesco Direct to manage customer

Initially a UK-centered basic supply retailer, since the mid 1990s Tesco has progressively expanded geologically and into zones, for example, the retailing of books, apparel, gadgets, furniture, toys, petrol and programming; money related administrations; telecoms and web administrations. The 1990s saw Tesco reposition itself, from its recognition as a down market "heap 'em high, offer 'em shabby" retailer, to one which requests over a wide social gathering, from its Tesco Value (dispatched 1990) to its Tesco Finest extents. This

My name is Nadia Veis and I’m a PR assistant at Tesco, the world’s 3rd largest retailer after Wal-Mart and Carrefour. I’ve been a representative for the company for about four years now. I’ve been looking forward to give this speech to you guys here at the London School of Economics. Within the next hour you’ll be hearing about some of Tesco's current problems and how we at Tesco efforts to solve them taking the changing consumer behavior into consideration.

However with the recent years there has been talks about Tesco and their financial profits falling down by 92% (Ruddick, 2014). So the main focus of the report will be that I will analyse the strength, weaknesses, threats and opportunities of Tesco and come up with a recommendation at the end for Tesco to improve. Additionally I will be analysing about Tesco Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal factors. The end of the report will establish a possible recommendation to help guide Tesco strategy in the future.

On Thursday May 6, 2010. I went to the Tesco supermarket at Puchong. At first I came to Malaysia, I don’t know about Tesco, because they not open a branch in my country, Indonesia. I only know the supermarket like Giant and Carrefour. First of all, I think Tesco is a local company, but several times later I know that Tesco is originally from UK. I like to come in weekdays so it’s not crowded as on weekends.