Tag: Tesco

Tesco champions developing brands with innovation-led Accelerator Programme

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco recently welcomed 27 up-and-coming brands to its Welwyn Garden City campus as it launched its new innovation initiative, the Accelerator Programme. The programme will provide much needed support to some of the most exciting and innovative brands in the UK, with the suppliers benefiting from the opportunity to be stocked in Tesco stores and online, and accelerate growth with Britain’s biggest supermarket. With insight showing that innovation is important to Tesco customers, the brands have been carefully selected to feed into emerging product trends, including health and sustainability, the…

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Tesco launches dedicated section in stores for menopause-friendly products

Stuart Mitchell

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

Stuart Mitchell

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

Stuart Mitchell

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

Stuart Mitchell

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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