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Paulo reported that it lost direct contact a week ago with its correspondent, Andrei Netto, who was covering the unrest in Libya.

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It has already converted 61 of the 147 former Netto stores and Clarke said sales at revamped outlets were 50% higher.

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Asda – owned by the world's biggest retailer, the US-based Walmart – will also open a new depot in Rochdale, replace a depot in Grangemouth, Falkirk, to serve Scotland and Northern Ireland, and revamp a former Netto centre in South Elmsall, Yorkshire.

Asda reveals plans to create 5,000 new jobs 2012

EST: Journalist in Brazil Tom Phillips tweets: "Brazilian journalist Andrei Netto jailed near #Tripoli will be released soon, says Libya's ambassador in Sao Paulo."

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After falling behind its peers last year in terms of sales growth, the company has bounced back and recovered its position as the second-largest U.K. grocery retailer by sales, in part due to its acquisition of the Netto chain of supermarkets in 2010 that allowed the company to move into smaller-format stores.

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Asda said it would create up to 5,000 jobs on top of the 30,000 staff it took on last year when it opened about a dozen stores and absorbed 147 Netto sites and their staff after acquiring the discount chain.

Asda reveals plans to create 5,000 new jobs 2012

*** Retail Wal-Mart Stores-owned Asda said its foray into smaller-format stores through the acquisition of the Netto grocery store chain had been cleared by the U.K. Office Of Fair Trading, subject to certain agreed divestments.

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Blocked from taking over Liverpool by David Moores who swapped his cow for the magic beans of Messrs Hicks and Gillett, he's had the last laugh, planning a huge revamp of Molineux and gradually upscaling his manager's shopping haunts from Netto to Sainsbury's.

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Mr. Clarke said Asda wants to continue to expand its U.K. footprint and having Wal-Mart as a parent allows it to buy up individual plots of land or make larger acquisitions, like Netto, that offer ready-made retail space.

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