UK customers

Tesco Customer Services

Freepost SCO2298
Dundee DD1 9NF

Reference requests

To request a reference you can contact us via email: External.Enquiries@tesco.com or by post including your NI Number to the following address:

Payroll Team, Tesco House
Ground Floor, Smile
Shire Park, Kestrel Way
Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1GA

Please be aware that we only supply a standard employment reference confirming the dates of employment and most recent job title

Innovation at Tesco

Our ambition is to find new products, ideas and technologies that will help us serve our customers, colleagues, communities and planet even better in the future.

We want to work with people who have new ideas with solutions – those that will enhance what we do or how we do things to those that will transform our business and create sustainable growth, shaping the future of Tesco - and ultimately of retail.

If you have a new idea with a solution to help enhance what we do, or how we do things, please submit your idea to the Red Door. 

Alternatively, if you’re interested in becoming a product supplier partner, please submit your details here.

Find out more

Tesco has a long history of innovation; we have always looked for new ideas to ensure we anticipate and respond to our customers’ changing needs. Today, we continue to seek new partners to help us develop scalable, long term opportunities, in areas that may even be currently unknown and unmapped. Our teams bring specialist knowledge and experience and work with innovators to explore, develop and nurture ideas – making them a reality.

Click here to find out more about some of the projects we have been working on.