The “continuously morphing” retail TNC during market entry: interpreting Tesco's expansion into the United States

M Lowe, N Wrigley - Economic Geography, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
abstract One important element of recent conceptualizations of the distinctive nature and
challenges of retail transnational corporations (TNCs) is a focus on the mutual …

National high street retail and town centre policy at a cross roads in England and Wales

AG Hallsworth, JA Coca-Stefaniak - Cities, 2018 - Elsevier
For eighty years, UK government policy related to urban sprawl, town centres and high
streets in England and Wales has been dominated by planning/land-use control. In the post …

Conceptualising innovative customer-facing responses to planning regulation: the UK food retailers

S Wood, M Lowe, N Wrigley - The Service Industries Journal, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
While receiving extensive coverage across a wide range of industries, brand adaptation in
the face of regulatory change has been largely under-researched in the field of retail …

Innovation in retail internationalisation: Tesco in the USA

M Lowe, N Wrigley - … Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the market entry of the UK's largest retailer (Tesco) into the USA.
Tesco's launch of a new brand–Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets–in virgin territory is a …

When Tony met Bobby

L Sparks - Environment and Planning A, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
doi: 10.1068/a41271 unnamed adviser was present. The Prime Minister refused to reveal
the attendees in an answer to a Parliamentary Question in June 1999.(c) Most accounts of …

Regulation in practice: Power, resources and context at the local scale in UK food retailing

S Wood, A Alexander - … and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This article uses a relational lens to explore the conflict between the regulatory state and a
leading food retailer seeking store expansion within one catchment in south-east England …

Settling for second best? Reflections after the tenth anniversary of Wal‐Mart's entry to the United Kingdom

L Sparks - International Journal of Retail & Distribution …, 2011 - emerald.com
Purpose–The paper seeks evaluate to the comparative progress of Asda in the UK since its
surprise takeover by Wal‐Mart in 1999. Wal‐Mart expected to become the number 1 retailer …

In brief: the National Retail Planning Forum Briefing Paper series

A Findlay, L Sparks - International Journal of Retail & Distribution …, 2008 - emerald.com
Purpose–This paper seeks to make sense of recent developments in retail planning with
reference to the changing agendas on retail planning, the disparate nature of participation in …