Editing Tesco (section)

====Czech Republic====
[[File:Tesco express prague - belehradska street.jpg|right|thumb|A local Tesco Express, known as Tesco Expres in Belehradska Street, [[Prague]], Czech Republic]]
Tesco expanded to the Czech Republic in 1996 when they purchased [[Kmart]]'s local operations for $117.5 million and rebranded the stores as Tesco.<ref name="nyt-1996mar06">{{Cite news |last=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=March 6, 1996 |title=Kmart Plans to Sell Czech And Slovak Stores |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/06/business/company-news-kmart-plans-to-sell-czech-and-slovak-stores.html?pagewanted=all |access-date=January 22, 2018 |archive-date=January 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122235008/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/06/business/company-news-kmart-plans-to-sell-czech-and-slovak-stores.html?pagewanted=all |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ct-1996mar05">{{Cite news |last=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=March 5, 1996 |title=Kmart quits Czech and Slovak republics: Kmart Corp. is... |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/03/05/kmart-quits-czech-and-slovak-republics-kmart/ |access-date=January 22, 2018 |archive-date=January 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122181631/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-03-05/news/9603060157_1_kmart-corp-floyd-hall-slovak |url-status=live }}</ref> In December 2005, Tesco expanded its operations in the country by purchasing [[Carrefour]]'s local operations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m3905_20051222_20310_en.pdf|title=Case No COMP/M.3905 – Tesco / Carrefour (Czech Republic and Slovakia)|publisher=European Commission|access-date=16 March 2025}}</ref>

Tesco has been a market leader within the Czech Republic and is one of the largest supermarket chains in the country, operating over 322 stores by 2012,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tescopoly.org/country/czech-republic|title=Czech Republic|access-date=18 October 2014}}</ref> upwards of 300 by 2007.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.tescocorporate.com/images/annual_review_and_sfs_2007_0.pdf |title=Tesco Annual Review 2007 |publisher=Tesco PLC |date=21 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926153759/http://www.tescocorporate.com/images/annual_review_and_sfs_2007_0.pdf |archive-date=26 September 2013 }}</ref> Tesco is also keen to expand non-food items and has already opened petrol stations and offers personal finance services in the Czech Republic.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://en.itesco.cz/en_cz/services
 |title       = Tesco Services
 |publisher   = Tesco Czechia
 |date        = 21 April 2008
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090514055504/http://en.itesco.cz/en_cz/services
 |archive-date = 14 May 2009
 |df          = dmy-all
}}
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