Did you know?
Because we do lots of different things, for lots of different customers, in lots of different markets and countries, it's not always easy to get a handle on the full Tesco picture.
But we've so many great and varied opportunities to offer the right people that we wouldn't want anyone to overlook us because they thought we were just a high-street grocer.
So for an idea of the bigger picture, check out these tantalising Tesco titbits:
- We've got 13 million Clubcard members.
- Our international retail space grew by 19% in 2005.
- We created 2,900 new managers in 2005.
- We've already invested over £10 million in reducing organic food prices in 2006.
- Some 1.5 million customers use our self-service checkouts every week.
- Around 12,000 customers attend our Customer Question Time every year.
- Our customers buy one in three Fairtrade products sold in UK supermarkets.
- We sell 3 million mugs every year.
- Non-food sales are up 13% in the UK (2005).
- Customers place 200,000 orders every week on tesco.com.
- We currently manage 5 million customer accounts through Tesco Personal Finance.
- We've raised £857,000 for Cancer Research UK's Race for Life.
- Tesco made £41,768,741 in charitable donations in 2005 (including staff time and gifts in kind).
A winning formula
- Tesco won Grocer of the Year in 2006 for the second year running.
- Customers voted us Britain's favourite supermarket in 2006.
- We landed Best Online Retailer at the 2006 Grocer Gold awards.
Tesco & the community
Over 24,000 Tesco staff get involved in Cancer Research UK events. Find out what else we do.
Our culture
Customers or staff - no one's taken for granted. Sound like a culture you'd like to be part of?
