Departement of Media ,Communication and culture

Advertising and Public Relations Lab Crisis Management Workshop

• Theopoulou Maria 41090050-mtheopoulou@gmail.com• Soilemetzidou Irene 41090010-irini_nefo@hotmail.com• Skrivanou alexandra 41090017-alexandra21991@hotmail.com

• Paspati Anna 41090094- annapaspati91@gmail.com• Kapsali Chryssa 41090062-xrysakapsali@gmail.com• Mylona Christina 41090113-xristinamylona@gmail.com

Case Study

British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer in Chestnut, founded by Jack Cohen in 1919.

Food, toys,electrical devises, clothes and health and beauty products.

The third- largest retailer in the world. Stores in 14 countries across Asia, Europe and North America.

January 2013: horse meat found in Tesco’s product !

February 2013: 60%-100% minced beef made from horse meat

..and this is how it all started

…more Reaction tesco admitted that the minced beef withdraw from her shelves

contains horse DNA-Phil Clarke, chief executive of Tesco .

The presence of illegal meat in our products is extremely serious," he added. "We understand that many of our customers will be concerned by this news, and we apologise sincerely for any distress.-Tim Smith

Tesco has promised to buy more meat from UK in an attempt to prevent an other  horsemeat "We are already the biggest customer of UK agriculture, with all our beef coming from UK and Ireland farms. But we can do much

more. Clarke told Sky News on Wednesday morning: "We feel the need to bring the food closer to home. We think it's right to bring more of it back to the UK, so long as we can get the demand from the UK."

we should stop scouring the world for the cheapest products they can find and start sourcing high-quality, traceable product from farmers here at home.”

..they immediately withdrawn from sale all products from the supplier in question, from all their stores and online...

Tesco promised refunds to customers who had bought the contaminated .

Our links• http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/27/horsemeat-

scandal-tesco-meat-uk • http://www.imerisia.gr• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21418342• http://www.channel4.com• http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horse-meat-found-

tesco-burgers-1536247• http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/27/horsemeat-

scandal-tesco-meat-uk• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraphtv/9812945/Panto-

horse-burger-meat-prank-sees-pair-thrown-out-of-Tesco.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco • http://www.koutipandoras.gr• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21418342

Our professors

• Betty Tsakarestou: “Assistant professor- Head of Lab”

• Mania Xenou: “Professor CEO at reliant communications”

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