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The company was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen as a group of market stalls.
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The Tesco name first appeared after Cohen purchased a shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell and combined those initials with the first two letters of his surname
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First Tesco store opened in 1929 in Burnt Oak, Middlesex
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The business expanded rapidly, and by 1939 he had over 100 Tesco stores across the country.
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Tesco was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1947 as Tesco Stores (Holdings) Limited.
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The first self-service store opened in St Albans in 1956
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First supermarket opened in Maldon in 1956
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Tesco purchased 70 Williamson's stores
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200 Harrow Stores outlets
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Tesco buys 212 Irwins stores
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97 Charles Phillips stores purchased by Tesco
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May 1987 Tesco completed its hostile takeover of the Hillards chain of 40 supermarkets in the North of England for £220 million.
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Tesco took over the supermarket chain William Low, successfully fighting off Sainsbury's for control of the Dundee-based firm, which operated 57 stores
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Tesco launched a UK telecoms division, comprising mobile and home phone services
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Tesco was the only food retailer to make online shopping profitable
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Inverness was branded as "Tescotown", because well over 50p in every £1 spent on food is believed to be spent in its three Tesco stores
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Tesco launched a range of Tesco Venture Brands
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Tesco re-launched its own brand Tesco value range as 'Tesco Everyday Value', with new packaging and recipes.
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During EU-wide meat adulteration scandal, it emerged that some 'value' burgers sold by Tesco contained up to 29% horse meat.[38] In February 2013 Tesco reported that their value bolognaise contained 60% horsemeat.