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).

At least the Americans act ,we do nothing over here.

Proactive investor - Tesco (LON:TSCO) dropped 1.54% as marketing expert Jill Easterbrook left her job unexpectedly, less than a year into the role as the supermarket’s transformation director.

If they don't bounce here in serious trouble. Be a brave man to call the bottom. Already at ten year lows. Watching.

I have taken a chance on a bounce but have quite a tight sl, physical shares

Ditto snip, but with a spread bet. Target 180p.

That's me out for now. Flogging a dead horse. Good luck snip. If we get a Santa Rally it may bounce, meantime on sidelines.

to have and to hold for me Chris. My spread betting days are long gone. Stop loss will protect and I can`t see tesco disappearing. Part of my well balanced and pretty defensive portfolio, now in drawdown so rather conservative

Telegraph,Trouble-for-Tesco-as-its-shares-close-at-18-year-lows.

I personally believe Lewis has no answers. He may come under pressure by the spring or before.

Important Christmas period trading statement 14 Jan 16

Tesco latest adverts are cringeworthy. Reckon we might bet a bounce back before Christmas before the numbers are released for holiday trading period. Its anyones guess what the market will do then.

The television used to be blitzed with Tesco adverts this time of the year ,in past years.
They have clearly cut the advertising budget.

Aldi-Lidl-sales-leap-15-shoppers-hunt-festive-bargains-Asda-Tesco-languish-behind.

nice to see tsco normalising, I removed the SL because of oil/ukx factors and am holding

changed me mind. Tsco not looking attractive today and can`t blame ukx. Am out

More chance of seeing £1 than £2 in the near future.

Aldi spends more on Christmas advertising and Tesco cuts. Should not cut the advertising budget at any cost.



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Tesco’s biggest investor slashes stake

29 December 2015 By Jill Geoghegan



Tesco’s biggest investor, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, sold a large portion of its stake in the supermarket in the run-up to Christmas.


The £570bn fund, run by Norges Bank Investment Management, sold 27 million shares in Tesco last week, according to The Sunday Times. Since August, it has sold a total of 83.5 million shares in Tesco, worth more than £125m.

The latest sale takes its holding in Tesco to below 6%.

Supermarkets are having a bad time of things, so I suspect is that Norges Bank Investment you highlight - but why wait until now to sell half ( was it?) their holding? - That looks like carelessness. Dec 2013 would have made more sense.... do we know "when" they bought-in?

Until Supermarkets realise they don't need to stock every brand at high prices . . . .
Their "Turnover" will fall as folks spend less ( But Folks will do that anyway - it's the way many of us live ). Supermarkets need to realise that Investors are after ROE - the profit-margin is the thing and if they can turn the money over several times - that's very helpful.

The likes of Debenhams [ DEB ], appear to have continuous "Sales" - so I wonder that they aren't paying too much for Stock ( and expecting to sell it High ), so they end up nearer to "Cost" - My suggestion is that the Buying Department heads take a similar cut in salary - after all, they got the Buy-price wrong, didn't they?
Sales should be to shift the 1-2% of stock that's just not moving - so they can re-employ that money again.
EDIT (16Jan2016)- TSCO is 164 - a significant low.... maybe soon, time to buy.

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