Co-op profit jumps six-fold ahead of supermarket ‘trolley wars’ Retail The Co-op has reported a huge jump in profit for 2024 ahead of potential ‘trolley wars’ in the grocery sector. Group revenue was broadly stable year on year, ticking up by 0.2 per cent to £11.3bn, while underlying profit rose by 35 per cent to £131m. Operating profit more than doubled, from £66m to £151m, [...]
Asda equal pay dispute advances as UK supermarkets look on nervously Legal Asda workers equal pay can advance to the final legal stage after the Tribunal ruled some of their jobs are of equal value to the jobs in the distribution centres
Exclusive: Reeves to reveal new mutual council with Nationwide and Co-op Politics Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out plans for a new mutual council today made up of some of Britain’s biggest customer and member-owned firms, including Nationwide, Royal London and the Co-op Group, City AM understands. In her maiden Mansion House speech, Reeves is expected to set out a growth plan for mutually owned business as [...]
Sainsbury’s: FTSE 100 retailer warns Reeves’ budget may push up food prices November 7, 2024 Chief executive of Sainsbury’s Simon Roberts has warned that Reeves’ decision to increase employer’s national insurance contributions (NICs) by 1.2 per cent to 15 per cent next April could lead to price inflation. Sainsbury’s has estimated the cost of the change at £140m, according to the Guardian. “This industry operates on very low margins, and there just [...]
Co-op boss: Reform broken business rates system at Budget October 23, 2024 The current business rates system is “fundamentally broken” and is in need of urgent reform at the Budget, the chief executive of the Co-op has warned in an interview in which she also endorsed Labour’s contentious workers’ rights package. Shirine Khoury-Haq told the Today Programme that business rates were one of the driving forces behind [...]
Co-op’s legal services arm reports jump in profit and revenue September 25, 2024 Co-op Legal Services have achieved continued growth during the first half of this financial year, reporting a 56 per cent profit increase and a 35 per cent rise in revenue.
Lower costs help Co-op return to profit September 25, 2024 The Co-op said this morning that lower costs had helped the company return to profit in the first half of its financial year. Profit before tax grew to £58m in the first half of 2024 from a loss of £33m in the same period last year. The company, which also operates a funeral service, legal services, [...]
Supermarket and McDonald’s bosses to meet ministers over workers’ rights reforms September 2, 2024 Bosses from UK supermarkets and McDonald’s are set to meet government ministers to be updated on plans for new laws around workers rights. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and business secretary Jonathan Reynolds will join John Lewis CEO Nish Kankiwala; Sainsbury’s CEO Simon Roberts; Claire Costello, chief people and inclusion officer at the Co-Op; and [...]
Why are convenience stores all the rage? August 22, 2024 Earlier this week, Waitrose became the latest UK grocer to announce a big push into the convenience store market. The supermarket giant will open 100 stores in the next five years as part of a $1bn investment plan. Waitrose follows Asda, Morrisons (with its McColl’s estate), Tesco, Sainsbury’s and the Co-op in ploughing ahead with [...]
Co-op to open new stores in deal with departing billionaire Asda Issa brother July 9, 2024 The Co-op is to open new stores in petrol stations across the country after signing a deal with one half of the billionaire Issa brothers.