UK retail market leader Tesco has acquired the travel company First Call Leisure.

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The supermarket has renamed the business Tesco Freetime. It already used the company to sell package holidays through its Club Card customer loyalty scheme. This is just the latest non-grocery move by the retailer, which recently revealed it would offer instore legal services.


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Meanwhile, Thailand’s Tesco Lotus, a joint venture between Tesco and Thailand’s CP Group, plans to add 2,500 employees by end-2002 to its 14,000-strong workforce. The retailer intends to have 20,000 workers on its payroll by 2004.

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