{"id":81425,"date":"2025-10-15T04:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81425\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T04:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T04:45:07","slug":"tesco-ireland-now-has-e2-6bn-in-assets-new-filing-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/81425\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesco Ireland now has \u20ac2.6bn in assets, new filing shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The figure was revealed as it plans to take a property holding company it controls under its wing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Due to the nature of the transaction, which sees Tesco effectively merge its Monread Developments unit into \u00adTesco Ireland, the company was required to reveal its assets and liabilities. The merger was completed last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cIt is proposed that the company will merge with Monread Developments Limited (the transferor company) by way of merger by absorption, whereby it is proposed that the transferor company will transfer all of its assets and liabilities to the company and the transferor company will subsequently be dissolved without going into liquidation,\u201d noted a declaration by directors of Tesco Ireland filed with the Companies Registration Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tesco Ireland\u2019s chief executive is Geoff Byrne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The filing confirms that as of July this year, Tesco Ireland\u2019s assets totalled \u20ac2.69bn. Its liabilities amounted to \u20ac955.3m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is understood the figures have not been previously revealed, as Tesco Ireland\u2019s operations are reported in consolidated accounts published by its UK-based parent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_medium indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">Earlier this year, Tesco Ireland injected almost \u20ac4.6m into Monread<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Monread Developments has been used in the past by Tesco to progress a number of planning applications for its stores in Ireland. As of the end of July this year, Monread had assets of just under \u20ac45,000 and liabilities of \u20ac10.9m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Earlier this year, Tesco Ireland injected almost \u20ac4.6m into Monread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In 2023, assets held by Monread were transferred to Tesco Ireland for a consideration of just under \u20ac9.7m, based on their net book value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Tesco Group had total net assets of \u00a311.6bn (\u20ac13.3bn) as of February this year. Tesco operates about 184 stores across Ireland. During the summer, it said it would invest \u20ac40m to open 10 additional outlets over the next 12 months. It already employs more than 13,000 people here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tesco and Dunnes Stores are the biggest supermarket chains in Ireland, based on sales. In its last financial year, Tesco Ireland reported sales of \u00a32.9bn as its overall sales rose 5.6pc in the period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Earlier this month, Mr Byrne said the chain had seen strong performance during the first half of its financial year, despite the inflationary environment. \u200b<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Tesco group is headed by Ken Murphy, from Cork, who has been its chief executive since 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The figure was revealed as it plans to take a property holding company it controls under its wing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,1095,60,10099,43,4013],"class_list":["post-81425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-ireland","tag-john-mulligan","tag-news","tag-tesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}