Tesco, the beleaguered British supermarket now mired in an accounting scandal, has been hit with another reality check: It just put one of its five private jets -a Gulfstream G550– on the market. All of the jets were purchased before the grocery chain announced it overstated profits in the first half of the year by more than £250 million ($403 million).
The Gulfstream G550, with a price tag of £30 million ($48 million), was delivered in early October. But Tesco executives never got to enjoy its luxuries. New CEO Dave Lewis, who has been working hard to reverse slumping sales and revenue figures at the world’s second-largest retailer, ordered that all of the corporate jets be immediately sold.
Tesco has since liquidated the company that owns the jets, Kansas Transportation.
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