2013 horse meat scandal King, which has more than 500 fast food outlets in Ireland and the UK, dropped Silvercrest as a supplier, using suppliers in Germany and Italy instead, after horse meat was found in their supply chain. Waitrose removed beef meatballs from sale when it found that they contained pork. The meatballs were manufactured by an ABP factory in Glasgow. Waitrose, part of John Lewis, said it would be creating a new facility to supply its own beef products. Tesco, the Co-operative Group and Aldi also cancelled contracts with ABP Food Group because of the adulteration. Food wholesaler Makro, supplier to the
Criticism of Tesco was fully recovered. "Kitching v Tesco Stores" [1995] C.L.Y. 1731, Miss Kitching was a checkout lady, aged 22. She injured her wrist badly when she tried to stop some soft drinks falling on her. She won £5500 for injury in the course of employment, because she had pain, possibly permanent, in her arm and she was hindered in her hobbies of swimming and writing to pen-pals. "Tesco Stores Ltd v Elogicom Ltd" 2006 EWHC 403, Tesco won a passing off action against misuse of its Internet domain name. "Weight Watchers UK Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd" 2003 EWHC 1109, Tesco