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Booker one of Tesco’s best-performing subsidiaries, says group

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The performance of Booker was one of the highlights of Tesco’s latest annual figures, announced this week. The wholesale distributor, which is a subsidiary of Tesco, recorded a 12% increase in like-for-like sales in the year to the end of February, one of the brightest spots in a period that Tesco executive Ken Murphy described …

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