HOW TESCO FELT COMPETITION PRESSURE
Tesco 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Philip Clarke, who worked his way up from the shop 床に打ち倒す to lead Britain's biggest supermarket, is to leave the 商売／仕事 に引き続いて another 利益（をあげる）s 警告.
His time in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 同時に起こる／一致するd with an 前例のない period of 圧力 on the 設立するd "big four" players as discounters 逮捕（する）d a bigger 株 of the market.
Here is a timeline of Tesco's 業績／成果 since Mr Clarke took the 舵輪／支配 in 2011.
:: February 2011
Sir Terry Leahy steps 負かす／撃墜する as 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある on his 55th birthday after 14 years in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金, 監督するing a leap in pre-税金 利益（をあげる）s from £750 million in 1997 to £3.4 billion at the group's last 始める，決める of 年次の 人物／姿／数字s in April 2010. His 記録，記録的な／記録する 含むs the 開始する，打ち上げる of Tesco.com and 賞与金 範囲 Tesco Finest and its 拡大 into America with the Fresh & 平易な chain. The market 株 of the group stands at 30.5%.
:: January 2012
いっそう少なく than a year into Mr Clarke's 任期, Tesco shocks the market with its first 利益（をあげる） 警告 in almost 20 years after poor Christmas 貿易（する）ing. 株 急落（する），激減（する） by as much as 15%, or more than £4 billion. Tesco, in ありふれた with the country's three other 主要な grocers - Wal-市場's Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons - finds itself squeezed by discounters Aldi and Lidl and upmarket grocers Waitrose and 示すs & Spencer.
:: April 2012
Tesco 明かすs a £1 billion UK 復活 計画（する）, which 含むs 昇格ing 蓄える／店s, the 新規採用 of more staff and better prices and value. The 率先 follows （民事の）告訴 s that its 2,800 蓄える／店s are 冷淡な and 産業の with poor levels of service.
:: April 2013
The retailer 報告（する）／憶測s its first 落ちる in 年次の 利益（をあげる）s in 19 years, with 地位，任命する-税金 利益（をあげる） 宙返り／暴落するing almost 96% to £120 million from a year earlier. The 人物／姿／数字 is 攻撃する，衝突する by a £1.2 billion 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 on the retailer's US Fresh & 平易な chain of around 200 蓄える／店s as it 確認するs it will leave the country. The 会社／堅い also 苦しむs a £804 million 令状-負かす／撃墜する in the UK on land for more than 100 major 蓄える／店s, bought at the 高さ of the 所有物／資産／財産 にわか景気, which will no longer be developed.
:: February 2014
The supermarket 約束s to spend an 付加 £200 million on lower prices for basic 製品s, such as carrots, tomatoes, onions, peppers and cucumbers. It will also rein in 年次の 資本／首都 spending to no more than £2.5 billion for at least the next three years as a result of the 劇の 削減 in 蓄える／店 拡大 - nearly half the £4.7 billion spent in 2008/09.
:: April 2014
Mr Clarke 小衝突s off 憶測 about his 未来 にもかかわらず little 調印する that his £1 billion 計画（する） to turn around the 小売 juggernaut is 耐えるing fruit. 利益（をあげる）s 落ちる 6.9% to £3.05 billion for the year to February 22 while fourth-４半期/4分の1 like-for-like sales 低迷 by 3% as its UK market 株 落ちるs to 28.6% in the 12 weeks to March 31, from 29.7% in the same period a year earlier.
:: June 2014
Till-roll 人物／姿／数字s from Kantar Worldpanel show a 拒絶する／低下する in Tesco's market 株 to 29% in the 12 weeks to May 25, compared with 30.5% a year earlier. A day later, the chain 報告（する）／憶測s a 3.7% 落ちる in like-for-like sales for the first ４半期/4分の1 of its 財政上の year. It is a 業績／成果 that Mr Clarke 収容する／認めるs is the worst he has seen in f our １０年間s at the supermarket chain. At the company's 年次の 会合, chairman Sir Richard Broadbent asks 株主s to give 管理／経営 more time to 完全にする their turnaround 計画（する）s.
:: July 2014
Tesco 発表するs that Mr Clarke will step 負かす／撃墜する from the board on October 1 to be 取って代わるd by Unilever (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Dave 吊りくさび. Sales and 貿易（する）ing 利益（をあげる） in the first half of the year are "somewhat below" 期待s, the company 追加するs.
