Ocado said this morning that sales increased by almost a fifth and said it already benefiting from the Morrisons partnership.
Sales in the 12 weeks to February 23 increased 18 per cent to £218.8 million gross, which includes VAT.
Analysts said that was slower than the 21.3 per cent increase in the six weeks to January 5 ad estimated growth in the weeks to February 23 could have slowed to around 14 per cent.
That ties in with evidence from the Office of National Statistics that food delivery growth much slower in January as people cut back on non-essential spending. But it is still a much faster rate than the figure of around 10 per cent reported by both Sainsbury's and Tesco for the Christmas period.
Adding in the performance of Morrisons.com, total sales increased to £227.5 million.
The extra income from Morrisons includes fees charged to the supermarket chain of around £8.7 million in the period weeks.
Ocado chief executive Tim Steiner said: 'Having launched on 10 January, we are pleased with the operational progress of Morrisons.com, with the service expanded to new geographic catchments in February.'
He said of Ocado.com: 'We are pleased with the continued growth in our business. We remain committed to improving the quality of the offer to customers, which we believe will support further growth.'
But he added: 'While we are encouraged by our current trading, the retail environment remains both challenging and competitive, and we expect to continue growing in line with, or slightly ahead of, the markete
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