In 1924, he created the Tesco brand name from the initials of a tea supplier, T. E. Stockwell ( formally Messrs Torring and Stockwell of Mincing Lane ), and the first two letters of his surname.

In 2011 a closed meeting of Allerdale councillors took place to discuss the sale of the site, the council rescinded on its decision to sell the site to Tesco in June 2011.

Tesco acquired the Safeway store, Wilkinson took over the former Somerfield store and the former Co-op superstore was subdivided into a number of units which provided the town with a new main post office, Morrisons supermarket and Store Twenty One clothing store.

Tesco Express was originally The Plough and following a major fire changed its name to The Sportsmans due to the bare knuckle fighting which took place on the green opposite before the houses were built, bets being wagered in the pub.

Tesco took over the store in 2002.

By 1939, he owned over 100 Tesco stores across the country.

Sainsbury's warned that they would run out of food within days having seen a 50 % increase in their sales over the previous two days ; Tesco and Safeway stated that they were rationing some items.

* Carrefour-stores taken over by Tesco

Three further daily Stobart / Tesco trains have since commenced operations over the winter of 2011 / 12-Daventry to Tilbury ( which has, on occasion, combined with the Russell " sugarliner " train ), Daventry to Cardiff Wentloog and Teesport to Ditton.

Tesco Ireland is the largest food retailer in Ireland, and has over 13, 500 employees.

The bestseller, which sparked the controversy over the revelation about Sean FitzPatrick's golf meeting with Taoiseach Brian Cowen, was published in secret and distributed directly to Easons and selected bookstores -- but not to Tesco or other supermarkets.

In 2007, Tesco Ireland announced that they would be providing brand new uniforms to take over from the ten year old previous uniforms.

In 1986, frozen food supermarket chain, Bejam, purchased the business from Tesco, and rebranded it as Bejam, before the latter was taken over by rival Iceland in 1989.

It was however still an enormous supermarket spread over two levels ( the second being a large mezzanine level, which was built a few years after the Tesco store had opened to give more space within the store ).

Following the deterioration of the shopping centre over the past decade ( prior to 2008 ), Leeds City Council has redeveloped it, bringing new stores such as Farmfoods and a large Tesco to the area.

In 1983, Tesco handed Touch and Go over to Rusk and his wife Lisa when he left Michigan for Washington DC.

By this time the Dee Corporation had over 1, 100 stores, and it had nearly 12 % of the market, not far behind Sainsbury's and Tesco.

Prior to the take over, sales had been falling at a rate of 6 %, a figure that Tesco reversed to a growth of 20 % by February 1996 and the former Wm Low stores contributed £ 11 million profit to the Tesco group.

Dundee Lochee which was the last large Wm Low superstore closed on 7 February 2009, being replaced by Dundee South Rd which is now Scotland's largest Tesco store, spread out over 3 floors.

At the time of the Tesco take over, a number of new Wm Low Stores were earmarked for development.

The former Wm Low store in Goole, East Yorkshire, was taken over by Tesco, but this was relocated to a larger site on Boothferry Road in the late 1990s.

By February 2011 over 500 organisations had achieved the Standard including Tesco, Mothercare, Moss Plastics, Manchester United, Serco, Linklaters, Bolton Wanderers Football Club, British Land and Motorola.

However, facing criticism over the growth of hypermarkets in Thailand, the CP Group sold its shares in Tesco Lotus in 2003, though it did retain interest in Tesco Lotus in China ( which operates under the Lotus name with Tesco being a separate chain ).

There are over 200 Tesco Travel Money Bureaux, an in-store bureau de change, run by Travelex.

William Low, ( popularly referred to as Willie Low's ; latterly marketed as Wm Low ) was a chain of supermarkets based in Dundee, Scotland, until it was bought out by Tesco for £ 257m in 1994.

Although the vast majority of old Wm Low stores have now been replaced with all-new Tesco stores, some branches retain some Wm Low format fixtures ( e. g. open grid false ceilings and blue / pink tiling in toilets ).

Tesco Banff is the last obvious Wm Low style store left in the portfolio, having not undergone any refit since immediately after the takeover in 1996.

Wishaw Tesco moved to a purpose built store in November 2007 across from its original Wm Low store.

Most of the remaining Wm Low stores have been converted to the Tesco " Metro " format, in line with their smaller size.

In 2007, the former Wm Low store in Forfar closed, with Tesco moving to a new site at the northern end of the town centre.

The following is a list of Wm Low stores in existence immediately prior to the takeover by Tesco.

Tesco had to compete with a rival takeover bid from competitor J Sainsbury for the chain and, following the takeover, 57 of the William Low stores were converted to the Tesco fascia.

The takeover battle for William Low started on 14 July 1994, when Tesco announced its formal bid of £ 156 million for the company to dramatically improve its Scottish portfolio and an assurance it would not cherry pick the best stores.

There is a Homebase, Asda, VUE as well as a Tesco Extra which opened on 22 November 2010.

All five major petrol station chains in the country operated a scheme during the late 1990s-Esso had " Tiger Miles " ( with Tesco ClubCard points offered as an alternative ), Maxol had " Points Plus ", both of which operated on the principle of getting items from a gift catalogue, with Shell using Dunnes ' scheme, Texaco using the SuperQuinn system, and Statoil operating a cash-back system, " Premium Club ".

The album was then leaked on the Tesco website in late August revealing the tracklisting and the name, entitled Take the Crown.

There is The Co-operative Food and a doctor's surgery on Franche Road ( A442 ) in Franche, a Morrisons on Green Street in the centre of the town, a Sainsburys and The Range on Carpet Trades Way near the river, and Tesco, Asda and Aldi are in the town centre on either side of New Road.

* In the BBC mockumentary Time Trumpet, British retail chain Tesco launches an invasion of Denmark on January 21 of this year.

Other chains caught on, and after Galvani lost out to Tesco's Jack Cohen in 1960 to buy the 212 Irwin's chain, the sector underwent a large amount of consolidation, resulting in ' the big four ' dominant UK retailers of today: Tesco, Asda ( owned by Wal-Mart ), Sainsbury's and Morrisons.

A long battle of words between local activists and local companies and Tesco was eventually solved when the mega retailer obtained planning permission to build a supermarket on Corve Street, but only after agreeing to conform to the architectural demands of the local council.

There is a Tesco on New Hammond Beck Road, near Swineshead Road ( A52 ) to the west of the town.

Retail jobs in the town increased in number in 2006 – 2007 when a new shopping development, including a large supermarket owned by Tesco, clothes store and other retailers, was constructed on a site just south of the town centre which had once been a factory making Clarks shoes and later Doc Martens boots.

These small shops have recently been joined by the centre's first large supermarket ( a Tesco ), built on the site of a former gasometer in what has traditionally been an area populated by small locally-owned businesses and smaller branches of national chains.

Hatch End was also previously home to The Railway public house ; the site on which it once stood is now home to a Tesco Express store.

There is a Tesco supermarket on Kennington Lane.

The new Tesco opened on 18 May 2009.

In 2006, further change was on the cards as Tesco proposed to replace the store with a 6-storey building containing affordable flats above a new store.

A Tesco Express Store opened in June 2009 on Kirkdale.

Their original ground, known as Lower Mead, was located behind the ABC Cinema ( now the Safari Cinema ) on Station Road, prior to its controversial sale to Tesco for retail development.

Lex boasts some distinguished alumni who have gone on to make careers in business and government – including Nigel Lawson ( former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer ), Richard Lambert ( CBI director and former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee ), Martin Taylor ( former chief executive of Barclays ), John Makinson ( chairman and chief executive of Penguin ), John Gardiner ( former chairman of Tesco ), David Freud ( former UBS banker and Labour adviser, now a Conservative peer ), John Kingman ( former head of UKFI and a banker at Rothschild ’ s ), George Graham ( RBS banker ), Andrew Balls ( head of European portfolio management at PIMCO ) and Jo Johnson ( Conservative Member of Parliament for Orpington ).

In early 2000, a financial agreement made between Tesco and Brighouse Sports Club, allowed for a huge new Tesco superstore to be built on the site of the former club, and the old Tesco became Wilkinsons.

There is a Co-op supermarket and a small Tesco on the outskirts.

The supermarket Tesco in St Mellons, Cardiff, United Kingdom started a ban on customers wearing pajamas in January 2010 ..