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Tesco in Asia
  • We have 450 stores in 5 countries: China, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand
  • We employ over 40,000 people and serve over 7 million customers a week
  • Our sales were ’3.9 bln (¥838.5 bln) in 2005/06
  • Underlying profit up 30.7% to ’200 mln (¥43 bln)

China is our newest market. Every week 3 million customers shop in our 39 Hymall hypermarkets in Shanghai, the North and North East of the country.

In Japan people like to shop little and often so we operate a chain of over 110 discount convenience stores in and around Tokyo.

We have sixteen stores in Malaysia, and are trialing our Express program with 3 stores. We also opened our first Value store in 2006, a 3,000 square meter store in Banting.

In South Korea we have 54 stores, including 19 Express stores. Our loyalty card, called Family Card, has over one million members.

We offer a range of formats in Thailand, where we are a market leader, to offer customers the different shopping experiences they want including Express, Value Stores and Hypermarkets.

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