Tag: Tesco

Surplus food put to good use with Tesco Community Cookery School programme, supported by Jamie Oliver

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has announced a new training programme Tesco Community Cookery School with Jamie Oliver, which will teach over 1,000 community cooks on how best to use surplus food donations to help stop good food going to waste. Tesco has been focusing on reducing food waste for over a decade. In 2009, Tesco stopped sending food to landfill and in 2013, became the first retailer to publish its food waste data. In 2016, Tesco made a commitment that no food safe for human consumption will go to waste in its operations.…

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Tesco and Volkswagen partner to provide the largest retail Electric Vehicle charging network in the UK – powered by Pod Point

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco and Volkswagen are proud to announce the development of the largest UK retail Electric Vehicle charging network, powered by Pod Point. Customers will be able to charge their electric cars using a normal 7kW charger for free or a ‘rapid’ 50 kW charger for a small cost in line with market rate. The UK’s leading fuel retailer and the world’s largest vehicle manufacturer will roll out over 2,400 EV charging bays across 600 Tesco stores within the next three years. The charging bays will be based in Tesco Extra…

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Tesco and WWF join forces to make food more sustainable

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco and WWF have announced a ground-breaking, long-term partnership with the aim of reducing the environmental impact of the average UK shopping basket by 50%, improving the sustainability of food while ensuring it remains affordable for all. Food production is at the centre of key environmental issues, including climate change and biodiversity loss, as was clearly set out in WWF’s recent Living Planet Report 2018. Working together, Tesco and WWF want to address these issues, focusing on three key areas of activity: Helping customers eat more sustainable diets; Restoring nature…

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Heineken partners with Drink Aware and Tesco for the first time to encourage shoppers to have alcohol free days

Stuart Mitchell

Ahead of Alcohol Awareness Week, Heineken 0.0, Drink Aware and Tesco joined forces for the UK’s first in-store promotion of Drink Free Days. The initiative, ran in 450 Tesco stores across the country from mid-November to early December, promoted Heineken 0.0 no-alcohol beer and Drink Free Days. There will be a combination of impactful signage in the beer aisle, displays on the digital advertising screens in more than 250 large format stores, and a banner on the Tesco online shopping website. The shelf edge at the point of sale will…

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GGGI announces new commitments as Nestlé and Tesco join fight against ghost fishing gear

Stuart Mitchell

At the Our Ocean 2018 conference in Bali, Nestlé, the world’s biggest food company and Tesco, the UK’s biggest supermarket chain, have announced they have joined the Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI) to help address the more than 640,000 tonnes of fishing gear, also called ‘ghost gear’, ending up in our oceans every year. The Global Ghost Gear Initiative, founded in 2014, is the only global alliance of its kind, dedicated to tackling the problem of ghost fishing gear at a global scale. <br/> Ingrid Giskes, Chair of the GGGI…

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