Tesco launches dedicated section in stores for menopause-friendly products

Tesco is trialling a new menopause-friendly section in selected stores, helping customers find dedicated products to help manage their symptoms and highlight other items that are safe to use when menopausal. It comes as the retailer joins forces with GenM, an awareness collective who empower brands to transform how women search, source and shop when going through the menopause. The M-tick, the world’s first symbol to signpost menopause-friendly products, will now be clearly visible on products, both in Tesco stores and online.  And to celebrate the partnership, for the next six weeks…

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Tesco launches Nature Programme with step-up in support for water commitment

Tesco has stepped up its support for a key commitment on tackling water pollution and risk in the food industry, as it announced plans to roll out a programme of work to aid the shift to a nature positive food system. Tesco’s Nature Programme will focus its efforts on five key areas of action: protecting nature in key sourcing landscapes, both in the UK and abroad; scaling industry leading innovations to support biodiversity; implementing a nature plan across its own estate and operations; continuing to lead the industry on research…

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Tesco donates over 33,000 kids’ toothbrushes to charity

Over 33,000 kids’ toothbrushes and 6,000 tubes of kids’ toothpaste will be donated to help combat hygiene poverty in the UK. Research by charity In Kind Direct found that 1 in 6 (17%) UK adults are living in hygiene poverty. Their research also found that 6% of adults say they, or someone in their household have gone without a toothbrush in the last six months because they could not afford it.  In response, Tesco has been working with four of its suppliers – Unilever, Kimberley Clark, Essity and Haleon –…

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Winning sustainability start-ups herald ground-breaking trials with Tesco suppliers

The five winners of WWF and Tesco’s 2022 Innovation Connections Programme recently shared their remarkable progress after being given the opportunity to work with leading Tesco suppliers, helping to accelerate research and better understand opportunities – and challenges – to scale in a commercial setting. Each innovator shared key outcomes secured through the programme, supporting their development, including being able to work with a major commercial supplier to trial their products.  Globally, agriculture and land use are responsible for almost 60% of biodiversity loss and 30% of greenhouse gas emissions…

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Tesco is first UK supermarket to give kinship carers same support as adoptive parents

Tesco, the UK’s largest private-sector employer, has granted colleagues who have a Special Guardianship Order to care for relatives’ children equal rights with colleagues who adopt – giving them both 26 weeks’ leave on full pay. The kinship leave, which will apply to grandparents or other relatives who take on a child of a family member, is intended to help kinship carers to be able stay in the workforce, while managing their extra responsibilities.  The new policy, which makes the grocer one of the first UK retailers to support these…

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