Tesco is one of the worlds leading international retailers. Since the company first the trading name of Tesco, in the mid 1920s, the group has expanded into different formats, different markets and different sectors. The UKs leading retailer Tesco was floated on the stock exchange in 1947 and in 1995 took over rival Sainsburys position as the UK number one. The principal activity of the group is food retailing, with over 2,000 stores worldwide. Tesco has a long term strategy for growth, based on four key parts: growth in the Core UK business, to expand by growing internationally, to be as strong in non-food as in food and to follow customers into new retailing services. The company launched a home shopping service in 2000, allowing customers to order their shopping online. Tesco is now expanding its convenience stores and overseas into areas such as Taiwan, Malaysia, Poland, the US and Ireland.

Upper graph = 12 month share price with 6 month moving average
Lower graph = 12 month volume (red line = volume average).

".............i am but a simple person...........". Certainly can't argue with that!

Lets see what happens

hc - i didnt think you would - i thought cynic may have been first to comment?!

Tesco market share dips below 30%




http://www.shropshirestar.com/business/city-news/2012/01/31/tesco-market-share-dips-below-30/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/31/tesco-lowest-market-share-2005

cheers dc

just added a few more 6603

at this time of year i lock in to div shares now in sbry tesco mrw cna vod rsa .
sbry and tsco will hold till 350p and 400p

just added 14775 more cna at296.15p

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/01/tesco-bob-robbins-move

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/money/4102447/Tesco-shares-sell-executive-Bob-Robbins-is-moved-news-The-Tesco-exec-who-made-a-fortune-selling-shares-before-a-monster-profit-warning-has-been-moved-out-of-his-role-at-the-supermarket.html

eye dc he is 'bob bob bobbin along'!! good got his just desserts the greedy beeeeeeeeeb!!

sound reasoning tanker - some of my pf is similar

early feb ever year the MMs play the market you will see this over the next 10 days ignore them the market is going to rise big time over the next 6 months

TANK - You do set yourself up mate. That is a ridiculous statement with respect :O)

cc you will see stocks drop on low volume and the reason is that some big players
have put in big orders . just watch CNA big order for this stock ,i am still adding a few

and i will say this tesco back on track .buy

I hear what you are saying TANK, are you prepared to cover all my long positions for six months, I don't think so. If you are though, my bank details are ....... :O)

Lets hope they do get back on track. With such hard trading conditions currently on the high street, Competitors are setting up major price wars as well. Once you start to lose market share it is very dificult to regain it. Lets see if Tesco have the plans in place to stop this. This is the news competitors were waiting for, they will be after them now. Not going to be a recovery over night or for the sp.

sit back and watch the rise and the div