... in retailing services. (Tesco have now created a major new force in financial services.) What this basically means is that, firstly, Tesco want to keep their position as the leading supermarket chain in the UK. We can see that they have the largest UK market share from this chart: They also want to globalise, as they have begun doing by opening a number of stores in a number or European and Asian countries. There are around 230 stores across Europe, in the Republic of Ireland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. In Asia there are fewer stores, only 79, in Thailand, South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia. The majority of the stores outside of the UK are hypermarkets, with very few supermarkets. This is because hypermarkets are far more popular outside of the UK partially because they sell such a huge range of goods. In Poland last year, Tesco took over a chain called ...

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