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Tesco sales up as quality perceptions improve
Tesco saw sales “step up” in the second quarter, with UK and ROI like-for-like sales rising by 4.2% year on year, strengthening from 3.5% in the previous quarter and meaning that in the first half sales were up 3.8%.
Profits were also up in the UK and ROI, rising 47.6% to £685m. Across the group as a whole, profit was up 24.4% to £933m while sales increased 12.8% to £28.3bn.
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