Ocado - Latest News and Analysis – Page 16
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Comment and Opinion
The Ocado-M&S switch will reveal how hard – or easy – it is to break shoppers’ habits
Consumers are averse to changing how they eat and shop, but Ocado is forcing a change upon its shoppers, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Comment and Opinion
It hasn’t been a dream start to the Ocado-M&S alliance. Can they turn the tides?
Ocado had all the tools to make the M&S switch a success but it hasn’t been smooth sailing, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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News
Ocado to restart plastic bag recycling scheme
It is encouraging customers to retain any plastic bags they have accumulated over lockdown ready for the restart of its recycling initiative
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Grocer 33
Online Grocer 33: Tesco wins as Ocado is second from bottom
Tesco scored with an impressive 90 points
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Comment and Opinion
How UK supermarkets can maintain online share in the face of Amazon Fresh
Amazon’s entry into fast grocery delivery means UK supermarkets need to step up their game, says Chris Carter, CEO of Melody
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News
Ocado reveals 40% capacity growth target as M&S partnership goes live
The online retailer wants to increase its capacity through ’significant’ investment next year, and is looking to boost it even further in the coming years
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News
Ocado boosts stake in vertical farming specialist Jones Food Co
Ocado has upped its stake in vertical farming specialist Jones Food Company to help support the building of more farms next year.
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News
Ocado CFO Duncan Tatton-Brown retires, Rolls-Royce CFO named as replacement
Tatton-Brown, who joined Ocado in 2012 from Fitness First, will be continuing as non-executive director at three Ocado subsidiaries
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News
City snapshot: Ocado CFO Duncan Tatton-Brown to step down
Ocado CFO Duncan Tatton-Brown will step down from his role in November after eight years in the job. Plus, The Hut Group announces £4.5bn IPO, Delivery Hero makes $270m acquisition and all the rest of the latest news from the City.
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News
M&S to debut on Ocado with beefed up alcoholic drinks range
M&S has worked over the past 18 months to match and improve the current Waitrose selection
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Comment and Opinion
M&S: Partnership with Ocado is just part of our transformation
A key element of its renewal programme has been to get customers to think differently, says Stuart Machin, MD at M&S Food
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News
Ocado customers find M&S products instead of Waitrose in grocery deliveries
The M&S branded items arrived in customer orders as substitutions for out-of-stock Waitrose goods due to a ‘system error’
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News
Waitrose.com turnover at £1bn ‘run rate’, says James Bailey
It puts Waitrose.com on course to hit a target announced in May last year of tripling its turnover to become a £1bn business within three years
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Analysis and Features
Can Ocado go mainstream?
Ocado’s sales have soared in lockdown. Can it use this momentum and its tieup with Marks & Spencer to crack mainstream grocery in the UK?
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News
Waitrose ‘flattered’ to have inspired M&S products for Ocado
M&S said it had “matched and improved on 4,000 Waitrose products” with its 6,000 lines on Ocado
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Comment and Opinion
Marks & Spencer is threatening a middle-class price war against Waitrose
And Ocado also gets an extra 2,000 unique M&S products on its site
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News
Media Bites 7 August: Diageo, Hammerson, M&S/Ocado
Diageo has locked horns with LVMH, the world’s biggest luxury goods firm, over an unpaid dividend
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News
M&S products now live on Ocado ahead of Waitrose switchover
Most Waitrose lines had been replaced with an M&S product of “near-identical specification” Ocado said
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News
City snapshot: Ocado first half retail sales top £1bn but pre-exceptional losses mount
Ocado has posted first half retail sales growth of 27.2% amid “unprecedented and sustained demand”, but its pre-exceptional losses rose by 64% to almost £80m amid mounting costs. Plus, Fever-Tree buys German distributor and updates on sales, McBride guides to better second half than expected and all the rest of the latest news from the City.