Tesco's Leahy makes £2.24m share gain

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Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy has made a £2.24m gain on the sale of options he exercised on 27 November.

The Tesco boss acquired 228,901 shares at an option price of 173p a share - a total cost of £396,000 - and he sold 148,808 of these shares. He also sold 439,693 of the 1,378,632 shares he received at nil cost.

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