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Ocado news

07 February 2013
Ocado has confirmed gross sales grew by 11.4% to £716.2m for the 52 week period of 2012. The pure play retailer expanded its range by 40% during the year to reach 28,000 SKUs, as CEO Tim Steiner aims to move from 'supermarket to hypermarket' status. EBITDA was up 20.4% to £33.5m, although the retailer recorded a loss before tax of £1.0m this narrowed to £0.6m looking at the 53 year period. Gross m...
30 January 2013
Ocado has signed an exclusive agreement with Jamie Oliver to become a featured advertiser on the chef's new YouTube Channel. Enter the world of Ocado Ocado will run an unskippable 30 second ad before each piece of content on Jamie Oliver's new FoodTube channel. Oliver launched the FoodTube channel on 21 January, and now has 130,000 subscribers, with over 12.5 million video views.  The adver...
22 January 2013
Ocado has announced that Sir Stuart Rose will become chairman from March 2013, taking over from Lord Grade who retires after six years service. High profile return for Sir Stuart Commenting on his appointment, Sir Stuart said: "as retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado's model and the high standards of customer service it provides will see it emerge ...
15 January 2013
For the six trading weeks to 06 January 2013 Ocado has reported 14.2% gross sales growth to £91.6m, while gross sales in the seven days to Christmas were up 17% to £21.8m. Customer orders increased 11.4% and the average number of orders per week was 140,000. Solid but relatively modest growth Trading against the relatively tough partial comparatives of last year, where sales rose 16.0% to...
03 January 2013
Our summary of when retailers will reveal their Christmas trading results. Monday January 7th – Morrisons Wednesday January 9th – Sainsbury’s Thursday January 10th – Tesco and M&S Monday January 15th – Ocado Watch out for our analysis on the day and for our upcoming Christmas trading special analysis. Want to learn more about the trading outlook? ...