
Tesco's pension deficit rises to £4.2bn as profits halve

The funding level of Tesco's defined benefit (DB) pension scheme has fallen yet again as it revealed its first-half profits have more than halved.
The troubled supermarket's pension deficit rose to £4.2bn on an accounting basis at the end of the first half of its financial year from £3.9bn at the end of February, according to its half-year report....
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