Asda
This coverage explores Asda’s strategy, operations, and performance within the UK grocery and retail sector. Reporting highlights store and online developments, product ranges, pricing strategies, financial results, leadership decisions, and sustainability initiatives. With a focus on commercial outcomes and competitive positioning, it provides insights for retail professionals managing grocery, value-driven, and multi-channel operations.
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Apr- 2019 -30 AprilPeople Moves
Scs appoints new non-exec director
Upholstered furniture and flooring retailer Scs Group has appointed Angela Luger as its new non-executive director, with effect from 16 May 2019. Luger was previously CEO of retail businesses N Brown and The Original Factory Shop and has held senior executive positions at Debenhams, Asda and Mars. She is also…
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25 AprilShopping Centres
CMA blocks Sainsbury’s-Asda merger
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked the Sainsbury’s-Asda merger after finding it would lead to “increased prices in stores, online and at many petrol stations across the UK”. The merger was said to be worth around £12bn and would have seen the grocer’s leapfrog Tesco as the country’s…
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15 AprilPeople Moves
Intu appoints new independent non-executive director
Shopping centre owner Intu has announced the appointment of Cheryl Millington as an independent non-executive director. The appointment will take effect from the conclusion of Intu’s AGM on 3 May 2019 with Millington becoming a member of Intu’s remuneration, audit and nomination and review committees. Millington is currently a non-executive…
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Mar- 2019 -20 MarchSupermarkets
Sainsbury’s and Asda pledge £1bn in price cuts
Sainsbury’s and Asda have announced plans to deliver £1bn of lower prices annually by the third year after its proposed merger. It comes after The Competitions and Market Authority (CMA) said it had provisionally found “extensive competition concerns” over the merger, and said that prices could rise at a large…
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5 MarchComment
What will a no-deal Brexit mean for retail?
We’re now just one month away until Britain leaves the European Union and we appear no closer to knowing whether we’ll be departing with a deal or without one. One sector which is set to bear the brunt if we leave without a deal is retail. In a report by…
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Feb- 2019 -22 FebruarySupermarkets
Asda named ‘worst’ for in-store and online offerings
‘Big Four’ grocer Asda has been rated as the worst supermarket for both its in-store and online offerings, according to a survey of 12,000 Which? members. According to the consumer association, Asda was left “languishing at the bottom” of both its in-store and online rankings, with scores of 56% and…
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20 FebruarySupermarkets
Asda reports seventh consecutive quarter of sales growth
Asda has reported a 1% increase in like-for-like sales for the three months to the end of December, its seventh consecutive quarter of growth in this area. However, growth was slower when compared with the 2% increase the ‘Big Four’ grocer experience in the three months prior. Commenting on Asda’s…
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20 FebruarySupermarkets
Sainsbury’s-Asda merger at risk over ‘extensive competition concerns’
The Competitions and Market Authority (CMA) said it has provisionally found “extensive competition concerns” as part of its in-depth investigation of the proposed merger between Sainsbury’s and Asda. Shares in Sainsburys dropped by 12.89% in early trading this morning (20 February), after the CMA said the proposed deal could lead…
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14 FebruarySupermarkets
New equal pay claim lodged against Morrisons
Morrisons could be facing a £100m bill as a law firm has said “thousands of its employees” have brought legal proceedings against the supermarket in an equal pay claim. The news comes just two weeks after Asda lost its appeal over an equal pay ruling where 30,000 of its shop…
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11 FebruaryProperty
Iceland eyeing Sainsbury’s and Asda stores
Iceland is considering a bid for the Sainsbury’s and Asda stores, which were put on the market after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) told the retailers that they must cut their stores in order to obtain regulatory clearance for the proposed merger. The supermarket’s CEO Richard Walker, said that…
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