Jan 7, 2020 | News, Retailing
Despite a record year through the tills over Christmas, 2019 saw the slowest rate of growth across December since 2015, according to the latest grocery figures released by Kantar. Sales at Sainsbury’s fell by 0.7%, although its market share held relatively firm...
Aug 6, 2019 | News, Retailing
Marks and Spencer Group Plc (M&S) has announced the completion of its acquisition of half of Ocado Retail Ltd, the dedicated online grocery retailer. This marks the start of M&S’s 50/50 Joint Venture (JV) with Ocado Group Plc, comprising Ocado’s UK grocery...
Aug 1, 2019 | Baking, News
Biscuit manufacturer, Border Biscuits has secured a deal with Ocado to supply the online retailer with its full retail range for the first time with a further three gift lines to be listed from September this year. The new partnership will see all 14 retail products...
May 22, 2019 | News, Retailing
M&S’ full year results for the 52 weeks ending 30th March 2019 have been released, and its top line summary reports as “good progress in restoring the basics.” The results indicate its food business is showing good signs of progress in arresting the decline...
Mar 19, 2019 | News, Retailing
Ocado Group plc has announced its trading statement for the 13 weeks to 3rd March 2019, highlighting that it has grown 11.2% in revenue, despite the impact of a major fire at Andover in February. Ocado explains the growth in revenue of 11.2% was impacted by the...
