Category Archives: tesco

Hitwise Intelligence UK: Facebook the most searched for brand in the UK

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Robin Goad: "Facebook’s UK Internet traffic has more than doubled over the last year and it is now the second most visited website in the UK after google.co.uk. The social network accounted for 1 in every 24 UK Internet visits during the month of February and traffic to the site has already increased by 18.6% during 2009. ... The remaining four brands are all online retailers: eBay, Amazon, Argos and Tesco. eBay and Amazon remain the most popular online retail brands, but the more traditional high street players are gaining on them all the time. "

Independent: Every little helps the magazine with 5.65m readers

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Dawn Alford: "Tesco Magazine has been identified by the latest National Readership Survey as being the most-read women's magazine in Britain – with a circulation of 5.65 million ... We have taken a deep breath – and banished professional models and celebrities from our covers. Instead, we will be using, for want of a better word, real people as cover stars."

The New York Review of Books: A Chill on ‘The Guardian’

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Alan Rusbridger: "Tesco may not have set out to chill debate about its affairs through the use of legal actions in Britain and elsewhere, but there is little doubt that the effect of major corporations resorting to highly aggressive and expensive lawsuits will be to discourage investigations of complex financial affairs at the very moment when most readers might expect more and better coverage of them."