Uk Grocery Retail in 2017
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UK GROCERY RETAIL IN 2017 CLICK ON THE DOWNLOAD BUTTONS FOR MORE INFOMATION JANUARY £3.7bn Tesco plans £3.7bn Booker takeover. Combined UK sales of £47bn would span retail, wholesale and foodservice sectors. FEBRUARY Aldi claims fifth largest share of the grocery market, overtaking Co-op. In the last financial year, Aldi gained 1m new customers, and grew sales by £1bn. APRIL Asda returns to growth: in Q2 it reports a positive sales performance for the first time in three years JUNE Amazon acquires Whole Foods Market, a deal with potential to disrupt grocery markets on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, 21% of shoppers claimed to use Amazon for some of their groceries (Nov'17) JULY Tesco offers same day delivery groceries to 99% of households, the first retailer to roll-out the service nationwide AUGUST B&M acquires 251 Heron Food stores, paving the way for new food trials in the discounter's stores in 2018... 34% of variety discount shoppers would buy frozen food in the channel but were not aware that they could (Apr-Jun'17) SEPTEMBER Costcutter customers pay with the veins in their fingers: the Brunel university campus store becomes first in the UK to offer biometric payment NOVEMBER Nisa members representing 3,200 stores vote in favour of Co-op acquisition. Co-op’s wholesale ambitions are further boosted by a deal to supply 2,200 Costcutter stores from Spring 2018 P&H put into administration. The collapse of the UK’s largest delivered wholesaler, with £4.4bn sales and some 90,000 customers in multiple and independent retail, triggers one of the biggest realignments in B2B supply ever seen in the market DECEMBER IGD predicts Christmas spending will increase by 2.6% to £22.2bn, with half of shoppers expecting to pay more for groceries this year £22.2bn because prices have gone up Sources Tesco press release: https://www.tescoplc.com/media/391965/27-announcement-dated-27-january-2017.pdf Kantar Worldpanel (12 weeks to 29 January 2017): https://uk.kantar.com/consumer/shoppers/2017/february-kantar-worldpanel-uk-grocery-share/ Aldi press release: https://www.aldipresscentre.co.uk/press-releases/view/350 Asda press release: https://corporate.asda.com/newsroom/2017/08/17/walmart-reports-asda-returns-to-positive-like-for-like-sales-in-q2 Whole Foods Market press release: http://media.wholefoodsmarket.com/news/amazon-to-acquire-whole-foods-market IGD ShopperVista, May 2017: https://shoppervista.igd.com/trends/presentation-viewer?t=amazon-what-do-shoppers-think&i=6921 IGD ShopperVista: https://shoppervista.igd.com/trends/presentation-viewer?t=healthy-eating-what-are-the-latest-shopper-trends&i=7121 Tesco press release: https://www.tescoplc.com/news/news-releases/2017/tesco-becomes-first-retailer-to-offer-same-day-grocery-delivery-nationwide/ B&M press release: http://www.bandmretail.com/~/media/Files/B/BM-Stores/reports-and-presentations/financial-reports/bm-heron-foods-acquisition-v2.pdf IGD ShopperVista: https://shoppervista.igd.com/channels/cf-discount-presentation-viewer?t=extending-fresh-and-frozen-food-in-variety-discounters&i=7017 Brunel University press release: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/UK%27s-first-fingertip-payment-at-campus-Costcutter Co-op press releases: https://www.co-operative.coop/media/news-releases/nisa-retail-members-vote-in-favour-of-co-op-group-offer Press release: https://www.pwc.co.uk/palmerandharvey IGD Retail Analysis research .