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Tesco sells its business in Poland to Salling Group

BRITAIN's Tesco is selling its Polish business for about £181 million ($227 million), the supermarket group said on Thursday (18), leaving its central European business focused on the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.

Britain's biggest retailer's withdrawal from Poland follows the sale of its supermarket businesses in Thailand and Malaysia in March, and is a further retreat from its once lofty global ambitions.


Tesco said in a statement it had stronger market positions and better growth prospects in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, which alongside Ireland are its only remaining overseas supermarket operations.

The buyer of its 301-store Polish business is Salling Group A/S. The pair agreed a 900 million zlotys enterprise value for the business, equivalent to about £181 million, and Tesco said net proceeds were expected to be £165 million in cash.

Those proceeds are in addition to the approximately £200 million Tesco has received from selling about 22 stores in Poland.

The group said it would continue to seek value from the remaining assets which include 19 currently trading stores not covered by the deal with Salling.

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