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Tesco's is a United Kingdom based international supermarket chain. It is the largest British retailer both by global sales and by domestic market share. Originally specialising in food, it has moved into areas such as clothes consumer electronics, consumer financial services internet services and consumer telecoms.

The Current Position
In 1995 Tesco overtook Sainsbury's as the UK's largest supermarket. In 2001 Tesco occupied 15.6% of the UK grocery retail market and was the market leader by 6%. Tesco's enormous share still grew and by September 2004, it had increased to a massive 28%, around 12% more than its nearest market rival, Asda. In the year ended 26 February 2005 Tesco made a pre-tax profit of £1.962 billon on turnover of £33.974 billion. Some would argue that if we were to include Tesco's share of the convenience store market (bizarrely considered a separate sector by UK competition authorities) in this figure, Tesco could be said to control 34% of the grocery......

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