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NewsAldi sets sights on tackling food affordability as it reveals record sales for 2025
Aldi has earmarked a record £900m investment for store openings and new distribution centres
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NewsLittle Moons CEO hails turnaround amid bounce back to profitability
Fresh accounts for the frozen mochi maker showed it jumped to a £940k operating profit last year
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NewsPoundland hails return to like-for-like sales growth in Q4
The trading update comes with Poundland owner Gordon Brothers in talks to sell the variety discounter
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NewsGosh swaps growth for profitability in ‘key turnaround year’
Sales at Gosh fell 6.7% to £16.8m in the year to 31 December 2025 amid a shift away from lower-margin contracts and a slight decline in the plant-based market
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NewsCo-op Group banks on summer momentum and Southern Co-op deal to boost H2 growth
It comes as the society released its half-year results today (23 September), which showed underlying losses grew to £45m in the six months to 4 July 2026, up from £32m in H1 2025
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NewsOatly delivers ‘robust performance’ despite operating model change
The accounts for the year to 31 December 2025 showed the business’s revenue dipped slightly to £103.2m compared to £104.8m
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NewsWhittard sales jump 15% as website traffic soars
Sales have soared at premium tea and coffee retailer Whittard of Chelsea, after customers flocked to sign up to its loyalty programme
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NewsDiageo reveals new CFO to replace Nik Jhangiani in 2027
Joanne Wilson, currently CFO at WPP, will take up the role from “some time in 2027”
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NewsCrosta Mollica merges with EPG to form €1bn pizza giant
After months of speculation over a sale of Crosta Mollica by its private equity owners, the rapidly growing challenger brand said it would instead merge with EPG in a partnership retaining both companies’ ownership.
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NewsChapel Down upgrades profit guidance as sales boom in first half
Booming sales at English vintner Chapel Down have led the company to upgrade its profit guidance for the year
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NewsCo-op losses deepen in first half as promotions bite into P&L
Co-op’s underlying losses deepened in the first half of the year, as the stricken retailer struggled to regain its feet after the 2025 cyberattack and resultant leadership churn
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NewsBoparan Private Office reaps acquisition benefits
Companies House filings for the year to 28 December showed underlying EBITDA expanded 34.0% from £134.5m to £180.2m. Much of the improvement was attributed to the purchase of 2 Sisters Storteboom
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NewsWH Smith shareholders cling on for the long haul
WH Smith shareholders shrugged off another lackluster trading update last week, after the embattled travel retailer posted profits at the very bottom of guidance it had previously downgraded
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NewsTropicana halts UK sales decline as portfolio cleanse pays off
Another year of “consolidation” following its 2023 separation from PepsiCo saw the struggling juice, smoothie and waters group slash its number of SKUs and strip out ‘distracting’ NPD to focus on core products
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NewsSupermarket Income REIT’s portfolio value up 24% to over £2bn
Its portfolio of more than 130 stores – including supermarkets operated by Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons, M&S, Waitrose and Aldi – grew 24% in value to just over £2bn, according to its annual results
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NewsProfits plunge at McVitie’s owner Pladis in demanding year
EBITDA slipped 4% year on year to £473.7m at the group in 2025, driven by currency headwinds and the strengthening of sterling versus the Turkish lira
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NewsSupreme CEO ‘confident’ in face of vaping duty’s blow to margins
Sandy Chadha told investors that Supreme’s 88Vape brand had ‘always been a value proposition’ and for that reason would ‘continue to resonate’
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NewsMorrisons turnaround ‘delivering’ after 15th quarter of sales growth
Morrisons grew sales for the 15th consecutive quarter in a row, in its latest third quarter results
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NewsWH Smith scrapes bottom end of profit guidance
The travel retailer told investors this morning that while a ‘solid’ summer peak of trading had boosted revenues 4% in the fourth quarter, full-year headline profit before tax and non-underlying items would come in at £75m
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NewsFarmfoods turnover exceeds £1bn for third year in a row
Farmfoods’ turnover rose by 18.4% to £1.2bn in the 53 weeks to 3 January 2026, according to newly filed accounts at Companies House