UK supermarket giant Tesco is planning to open a further 40 stores in central Europe, according to the Financial Times Newspaper.

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The company has about 194 stores in Poland, the Czech republic, Slovakia and Hungary, the paper said, and it intends to increase that number to at least 234.


“With a  29.5% share of the UK grocery market Tesco has to look beyond the UK to drive growth,” the paper said. “The European expansion is only part of Tesco’s international ambitions.

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