Tesco opens training academy in South Korea

The £30m academy will be used to train 100,000 staff across Asia

Tesco has opened a training academy in South Korea, which will be used to train 100,000 staff across Asia.

Tesco employees will be taught a range of skills including online retail and administration to filleting spider crabs.

It is estimated that 24,000 Tesco employees will attend training courses at the academy in 2012.

Tesco, which runs supermarkets in South Korea under the Homeplus brand, is the first FTSE 100 company to open a staff academy in Asia.

Last year the group posted Asian sales of £11bn from consumers in South Korea, China, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and India.

The £30m training academy is a symbol of the company’s dependence on Asia.

South Korea is Tesco’s biggest market outside the UK, which took £45bn last year.

The campus also includes a Tesco museum, which will give employees an understanding of the group’s roots. Tesco south korea.jpg

Stores