people who lined who lined up in front of tesco g begging for help. i want to tell you before i close because this is very important. carver never accepted a fee for lecturing, he, he refused to take out patents, he gave away every product he developed, 500 products from barnyard feathers for heaven sakes. thousands of products. of products. he gave them away to corporation same, i want them to be used, i want people to develop them. i don't want to company to make money for them, i them, i want them to go to people. he became the free consultant, volpe consultant to those companies so they could develop these products. thomas edison offered him over $100,000 per year to work for him. carver refused to stay at tesco g at a salary of $1000 per year because he said whatever i do here will go down to my people. everyone will know that black people are capable of anything. if. if i go into edison laboratory they will not know that. so, i have a lot more to tell you about carver but i will not be able to. i want to thank you so much for braving the wind an

tesco is trying to take serious action to reinvigorate their business. tried to turn around. how much are the efforts by those companies to hang onto their market share -- how much is that evident for you in the sector? it's clearlywell, always been an incredibly competitive marketplace. that's true now and it was true three years ago, incredibly competitive, facing tesco and morrison's. what we can say from our business perspective, we have performed relatively well. our performance has been very resilient. at the end of the day it is down to having a differentiated offer. we have invested significantly in the quality of our product, and we are in the process of improving across our business, our service levels, availability are better than they have ever been. those things count -- customers notice, which causes them to come to our stores. we have had a 3% increase in transactions, a very pleasing performance, and we continue to invest in our customers offers to make sure it continues going forward. anna: some have canceled their participation in the b

joining us is kate mooney and the ceo of tesco. let me kick things off with you, sir terry. how big of a boost is cyber monday and black friday? i would think this is so heavy. do they actually make money from these events? >> traditionally black friday was the most profitable day for u.s. retailers. it's change a little bit now. i think in truth you have to wait through the christmas period and january sales to see what the effect will be. i think traditional retailers are a little bit unsure certainly in the ump k. what to make of black friday. in one sense it's good. it's a call to action for customers. it gets them in the mood buying for christmas. the kind of discounts to entice customers can hit the bottom line quite hard. >> kate, do you participate in that discounting? housology, that's the u.k.'s leading interior design service, your biggest business isn't necessarily around christmas, is it? >> it can be. our business is very seasonal. everything around christmas, decorating a home for christmas is key for our customers. we do participate in black friday. it's grea

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the chinese markets without the expense of opening stores which is pretty expensive for someone like tesconus: charles, thank you very much. enjoying singles they. putting their toe in the water. where the stay tuned to on the move. we are to be talking hacking prevention. ♪ the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit your account $20. it's our promise to you. we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. manus: welcome back. this is on the move. 30 minutes into the trading day. let's see how things are shaping up. the rally has resumed. stocks 600 up by .5%. interesting news. carlsberg rising. this is the world fourth-largest brewer. ,t is the anheuser-busch deal proposing to buy sabmiller. $4 billion of synergies. also to deny. they've got profit guidance

you still have the likes of theseury's and tesco, retailers really trying to crowd out the deals.luxury dealers, liberty is on the deal as well. perhaps slightly less frenzy on high street. caroline hyde. coming into this year, the short energy and longer consumer. is it a little bit more nuanced than that? if i look at the performance of retail stocks, walmart is doing terribly, amazon doing very well. is that the consumer that i want to be going into 2016? well, the truth is that the consumer story has played out quite early. operations are now older. it is tricky to extrapolate that going forward. you have to believe that the consumption strength will proceed. but in terms of the potential lapse that you get, perhaps it is not as good as it was. jonathan: peter sullivan of hsbc -- i'm sure some of our viewers heard what he said. lower wages in europe break the margins for european companies. but at some point those european consumers need the money in their pocket to buy out these companies. that lower earnings story is going to be terrible for companies out there. what are we

tesco is going to be slightly calmer.ad, having deals every single friday -- rather than this friday alone. but the pandora's box has been open. you're also going to have john lewis doing price matching, some higher end stores getting in on the christmas come early act. and amazon serving up thousands of deals in excess, it is really driving and expecting its biggest shopping day ever. anna: caroline, thank you very much. another company taking part, the online retailer is inspecting a 400% surge in order today. joining us for the first interview today, is the ceo of the parent company of very.uk. why have you decided to participate in this, some that can have risk for brands? they have not enjoyed the experience entirely. >> well, i can understand their point of view. black friday does not increase the size -- customers are not buying anymore over the course of the agreed it does concentrate their buys into a short. . and it creates operational headaches. and a couple of governments providing discounts, when they grievou