Chichester International

History of Tesco:

Tesco was created in 1919 by Jack Cohen as a group of market stalls. The Tesco name first appeared in 1924, after Cohen purchased a shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell and combined those initials with the first two letters of his surname, and the first Tesco store opened in 1929 in Burnt Oak, Barnet.

Tesco is British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England, and United Kingdom. It is the third largest retailer in the world measured by profits and second-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues. The company runs 588 supermarkets, 257 of which are superstores, stores that sell food items in addition to a variety of other products, including gasoline, clothing, housewares, and alcoholic beverages.

Tesco also operates 32 stores in Northern Ireland and 77 in the Republic of Ireland under various brands, 43 in Hungary under the Global and Tesco names, 31 in Poland under the Savia name, and 13 in the Czech Republic and Slovakia under the Tesco brand. In Northern Ireland, the company also runs 52 Wine Barrel off-license outlets. Tesco is the largest independent gasoline retailer in Britain; its 288 gas stations sell 12.5 percent of the gasoline sold in the United Kingdom.

Recent company innovations include the Club card loyalty card as well as offerings from Tesco Personal Finance, which include a grocery budgeting account called Club card Plus, a Tesco Visa Card, and a Tesco savings account.

Originally a UK grocery retailer, since the early 1990s Tesco has diversified geographically and into areas such as the retailing of books, clothing, electronics, furniture, toys, petrol and software; financial services; telecoms and internet services.

Type of Tesco

• Tesco Extra

• Tesco Superstores

• Tesco Metro

• Tesco Express

• Tesco Homeplus

• One Stop

• Dobbies

• Petrol stations

• Tesco Clubcard

• Telecoms

• Internet retailing

 

 

In Chichester there are 2 type of Tesco:

 

• Tesco express