Tesco Weighs Exiting Asian Retail Market

Tesco is planning to sell its Asian operations after seeing its profit and market share decline. Richard Broadbent resigned as chairman of the world's third-largest retailer following reports of a probe into the company's alleged accounting improprieties, which saw the company inflating profit announcements. Mistakes in international investments by Tesco, which posted a 41 percent drop in operating profits and more than 90 percent in pre-tax profits in the first half of 2014, also played a significant role in the company's existing problems, according to Planet Retail analyst David Gray. In May 2014, Tesco sold most of its China operations to state-owned China Resources Enterprise.