Tesco Ireland with uncooked mince. In May 2012 it pleaded guilty to selling "gone off" (decayed or rotten) meat and the next month was prosecuted and fined for breaches of consumer law. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland found horse meat accounted for approximately 29% of the meat content in beef burger products from Tesco in January 2013. In 2007, Tesco Ireland announced that it would be providing brand new uniforms to take over from the ten-year-old previous uniforms. The new brand includes brand new Dell Computers for File Maintenance Control rooms and floor staff workstations. In July 2008 "Tesco Cash Savers"
Tesco to Citigroup retail analyst David McCarthy, "[Tesco has] pulled off a trick that I'm not aware of any other retailer achieving. That is to appeal to all segments of the market". One plank of this strategy has been Tesco's use of its own-brand products, including the upmarket "Finest", mid-range Tesco brand and low-price "Value" encompassing several product categories such as food, beverage, home, clothing, Tesco Mobile and financial services. Beginning in 1997 when Terry Leahy took over as CEO, Tesco began marketing itself using the phrase "The Tesco Way" to describe the company's core purposes, values, principles, and goals This