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Tesco is considering a trial of an upmarket convenience store under its ‘Tesco finest’ banner, but has not disclosed when or where a pilot will be launched.

Tesco grew sales in Ireland by nearly 3% in the last three months, but growth in its core UK market slowed.

Tesco has reported a 5% rise in annual revenues for its Irish operations to just under €2.7bn.

Tesco Ireland says it’s not affected by plans to "simplify" its operational structures in the UK.

Tesco Ireland has reported a rise in sales over the Christmas period.

Tesco’s then UK managing director did not alert the British retailer’s chief executive to possible problems with its 2014-2015 half-year accounts, despite having opportunities to do so, a London court has heard.

Tesco shares fell up to 4% yesterday as a strong contribution from international assets to its first-half earnings suggested the British retailer is not immune to Brexit effects.

British supermarket giant Tesco has reported a surge in half-year profits and rising sales as it hailed efforts to keep prices low amid Brexit-fuelled inflation.

Like-for-like sales at Tesco’s Irish operations showed marginal growth of 0.2% in the three months to the end of May — the first quarter of the British supermarket giant’s financial year.

Tesco saw a marginal decline in its Irish performance in its latest financial year, although its group-wide recovery continued.

Tesco agreed to pay £214m (€247m) to resolve regulatory probes into a 2014 accounting scandal that prompted a boardroom house-cleaning and an overhaul of the grocer’s supplier relations in the UK.

Two separate deals yesterday sparked foods shares into life, as Glanbia eyed a big cheese expansion in the US, while Tesco unexpectedly unveiled a €4.3bn purchase of restaurants supplier Booker.

Tesco shares have fallen as the retailer faces a new claim for damages from an investor, in relation to its 2014 profit overstatement.

Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco has warned its multinational suppliers against pushing up prices after a drop in the pound so they can maintain their reported profits.

Last week, we were treated to a brief autumnal clash of antlers between two very big corporate beasts, Tesco and Unilever.

British supermarket giant Tesco has reported near 9% sales growth in its Irish operations for the first quarter of its financial year — the three months to the end of May.

The London market closed higher with traders cheered by strong US economic data, soothing a hangover caused by Thursday’s stark warning by the Bank of England governor about the cost of a Brexit vote.

Tesco has awarded chief executive Dave Lewis an annual bonus of nearly £3m (€3.8m), according to sources.

Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, said its recovery was gaining pace but warned a supermarket price war meant profit growth would be hard to deliver this year.

The UK sales decline at Tesco has slowed for the fourth month in a row, industry data showed yesterday, adding to evidence that Britain’s biggest supermarket group is gradually recovering.

Cutting prices of Christmas puddings, turkeys, sprouts, and mince pies helped Tesco pull a better-than-expected performance out of its shopping bag over the holiday period.

Tesco’s Irish operations saw a marked slowing in sales decline in the first half of the company’s current financial year despite its parent seeing a near 55% drop in operating profit.

Tesco is selling its South Korean arm to a group led by private equity firm MBK Partners for $6.1bn (€5.5bn), it said yesterday, as the British supermarket retreats from foreign markets to focus on reviving its troubled domestic business.

Tesco has agreed to sell its South Korean business Homeplus in a £4.2 billion deal in the latest phase of the supermarket group’s turnaround plan.

Former Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke is reportedly set to be interviewed by England's Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which is investigating an accounting black hole at the supermarket.

Suppliers can expect a better deal from Britain’s biggest supermarket chain as Tesco tries to sustain a tentative revival — providing that their wares survive a cull that is removing thousands of products from shelves.

Price cuts and better service helped Tesco to win back shoppers in the first quarter of its financial year, Britain’s biggest retailer said yesterday, suggesting new boss Dave Lewis’s turnaround plan is starting to bear fruit.

Tesco paid £4.1 million to new boss Dave Lewis in his first six months after he was brought in from consumer goods group Unilever to turn around the embattled supermarket.

Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, has named Deloitte as its new auditor, ending its 32-year relationship with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) after an accounting scandal.

Tesco yesterday revealed the cost of its spectacular decline, with an annual loss of £6.4bn (€9bn), one of the biggest in British corporate history, and warned investors there could be more pain to come.

The head of Tesco’s operations in the London region has been handed the task of revitalising the supermarket giant’s fortunes in Ireland.

Britain’s biggest supermarket Tesco could cut up to 10,000 jobs as part of its attempts to halt a slide in profits, The Sunday Telegraph has reported.

Tesco is going to axe up to 10,000 jobs in a major shake-up at the crisis-hit retailer, according to reports.

Under-fire supermarket Tesco has received some much-needed cheer after figures showed its sales grew for the first time in a year.

Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco Plc is pursuing the sale of a majority stake in its data-gathering arm Dunnhumby, rather than an outright exit or flotation, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters yesterday.

Tesco has reversed its decision to suspend more than £2m in severance payments to two former bosses as it seeks to avoid a costly legal battle over an accounting scandal that hit the supermarket last autumn.

Blue-chip sharesin the UK began the week on the front foot today as investors shrugged off an 8% plunge in the Chinese stock market overnight.

Tesco was dealt a new blow yesterday as Standard & Poor’s joined Moody’s Investors Service in cutting debt at the UK’s biggest grocer to below investment grade.

The downgrading of Tesco’s debt to “junk” status could limit its negotiating power on potential asset sales as Britain’s biggest retailer embarks on a long-awaited recovery plan designed to reverse its sliding fortunes.