Few brief about those two companies started with Tesco:
Tesco ( TESCO , Taiwan and Malaysia translated as Tesco, Chinese mainland called Tesco), is the United Kingdom , a large supermarket chain. It is now the UK's largest retailer, is second only to Wal-Mart ( USA ), Carrefour ( France ) the world's third largest supermarket group.
Tesco first to sell food started, and gradually extended to clothing , appliances , customer Finance services, Internet services, auto insurance and telecommunications services. By the end of 2008, TESCO turnover of more than 480 million pounds.
Operating:
TESCO British company is divided into five types, namely:
Large stores (Tesco Extra) is a large Tesco warehouse stores, supermarket sales of all goods can be bought here. King's first store opened in 1997, to the 2004/05 financial year, the British mega-stores have developed to 100. In general, the area of large stores are about 6300 square meters, in January 2006 in Slough built an area of about 18,300 square meters, the area has become the UK's largest one large store.
Standard shop (Tesco Superstores) is a standard supermarket TESCO form, which sells food and a small amount of non-food goods. It is the most common Tesco store is also its main source of income.
City store (Tesco Metro) is between the size of the store in the form of a standard shop and convenience store TESCO between generally located in the city center or the main street location.
Convenience stores (Tesco Express) is a small-scale shops, mainly in sales of food-based, widely distributed in the busy city area or shopping area. Until February 2006, the UK's Tesco convenience store over 650.
One-stop shop (One Stop) is not the only use "TESCO" the name of the store, is the smallest shops, they are often used by some small retailers TESCO merger, but was allowed to keep the original name.
Business oversea:
May 2005, Tesco announced a trial operation in the form of