Overseas progress helps Tesco offset UK woes

LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco, the world's No.3 retailer, posted a 3.7 percent rise in first-half profit as overseas growth helped it to overcome one of its worst ever falls in underlying sales in its main British market.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://mf.feeds.reuters.com/c/871/f/415342/s/190c1dc5/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Overseas+progress+helps+Tesco+offset+UK+woes&link=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.reuters.com%2Farticle%2F2011%2F10%2F05%2Fuk-tesco-idUKTRE7940VD20111005%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Overseas+progress+helps+Tesco+offset+UK+woes&link=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.reuters.com%2Farticle%2F2011%2F10%2F05%2Fuk-tesco-idUKTRE7940VD20111005%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/114252840441/u/0/f/415342/c/871/s/190c1dc5/kg/253-264/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/114252840441/u/0/f/415342/c/871/s/190c1dc5/kg/253-264/a2.img" border="0"/></a> [More]

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