Type of Business

b) The types of business(es) that the company is currently involved in.

Tesco is headquartered in the UK, a supermarket, is the UK's largest retailers, global and inclusive of local sales. It is the fourth-largest supermarket chain after worldwide, U.S. Home Depot and Wal-Mart and France's Carrefour. October 2006, it has 29.090 one billion pounds of market sales.

Previously it has only the food supply chain market, however, over the years expanded its business into markets such as consumer electronics products, sales and rental of DVD, clothes, Internet services, telecommunications consumption, CDs and music downloads and financial services.

This huge market chain by a man named Mr. Jack Cohen founded in east London. The company's first brand in 1924, opened its first store in Burnt Oak, Edgware, London in 1929.

Tesco Bank

 

Tesco Bank is a UK retail bank was founded in 1997 and has been owned since 2008 by Tesco PLC. Bank was originally founded as a 50:50 joint venture between the Royal Bank of Scotland and part of Tesco, Britain's largest supermarket. Tesco was later acquired the stake of the Royal Bank of Scotland led the bank to become a wholly-owned subsidiary, currently operates its own banking license under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

The bank offers a variety of insurance, credit cards, loans, deposits, mortgages and travel products, and later this year will launch a current account. Tesco unique selling banking products, banks can take advantage of its large customer base to cross-sell financial services products, customers can accumulate when they buy financial products Tesco club card points.

As of February 2014, the bank has about 7 million customer accounts and policies.

Internet retailing

 

Tesco.com Tesco UK website operators through home shopping service.

May 1984, in Gateshead, England, is the world's first recorded online home shopper, Ms. Jane Snowball, purchased from grocery shopping from the online home of her local Tesco store a record of the world's first transactions. Tesco operating since 1994 on the Internet is the world's first retailers to provide a powerful home shopping service in 1996. Tesco.com officially launched in 2000. Supermarket sales, the delivery can range selected stores, goods are hand pick each store, in contrast to the warehouse model followed by Ocado. Tesco offers an internet-based DVD rental service, which is done by LOVEFiLM and a music download service.

In 2011, the music buying Blinkbox, wherein the selected DVD online movie streaming service, which is available for free streaming online purchases at the store. June 2012, the Company acquired streaming music site We7's.

Harris and Hoole

Not content with dominating the UK has 2,975 supermarkets and convenience stores; Tesco is preparing to launch a series of "craftsman" cafe.

The first dozen cafes in the company Amersham, Buckinghamshire open before the end of this month. But residents of the town of upscale Chilterns may not realize that the new cafe is fitted out in Indus Road is part of Tesco's growing empire. The new coffee chain named after Harris and Hoole Samuel Pepys' diary coffee-loving characters will not display any information, inform customers that the company is up to 49%-owned supermarket company. Chain will be behind Taylor Street in London's upscale cafe fellow Australian run. Nick, Andrew and Laura Tolley, who established the Taylor Street in 2006, will have a majority stake in Harris and Hoole.

Dobbies Garden Centre

Dobbies Garden Centre is the center of the garden, now owned by the British Tesco chain.

Enterprise was founded in 1865 by James Dobby, who created a company called more than was awarded the Royal Warrant and gardeners and Nurserymen to the royal seed business, the company expanded to seed catalog business, where it has established a customer 50000 base in the next century. In 1969, the company expanded its base in Scotland to England and listed on AIM in 1987, continued until 1984 dobby primarily as seed merchant operations. This bought by David Barnes, Managing Director, drinking at the time. From 1984 to 1989 dobby opened five new centers garden in Scotland.

The company floats on the Stock Exchange in 1997, which led to the expansion of operations dobby own garden centers further south to England. In 2008, after a much-publicized court battle with Sir Tom Hunter's West Coast Capital, the owner of rival Wyevale, the company fully acquired Tesco. Dobby is now working in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland 34 garden centers and restaurants, as well as several major attractions, including Magic Botanic Gardens, near Coventry.

May 10, 2009, dobby announced that it has made one million pounds of its sales to grow their own range so far in that year. Develop their own allows many dobby 10 million customers grow salads, vegetables and fruit from home in the past two months has sold more than 100,000 tomato plants. As of early 2009, the turnover of 97 million pounds. In 2010, in Northern Ireland and dobby opened their first outlet store, near Lisburn, opened in September 2010