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Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets

  • Morrisons’ new owners green light plans to sell £500m worth of property

    April 5, 2022

    Morrisons’ new owners have rubber stamped plans to sell a £500m property portfolio including manufacturing and distribution facilities. According to Sky News, the supermarket is preparing to appoint advisers to oversee the disposal of certain sites across the country. It comes just months after New York’s Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) took over the grocer [...]

  • McColl’s boss steps down after six years at the helm amid rescue talks

    March 24, 2022

    The chief of beleaguered convenience store chain McColl’s has quit as the business faces an existential crisis.  The chain has been in talks with lenders over emergency cash, as it hopes to find a buyer to secure its future.  After three decades with the chain and six years in leadership, Jonathan Miller has quit the [...]

  • Watchdog says Morrisons takeover could lead to higher fuel prices in more than 100 locations

    March 24, 2022

    The competition watchdog has said Morrisons’ blockbuster private equity takeover could lead to higher fuel prices.  Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R)’s £7bn takeover of the supermarket could lead to higher fuel prices in 121 locations where both firms own forecourts, the regulator said. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it has concerns about the [...]

  • Competition watchdog launches first phase of Morrisons takeover probe

    January 27, 2022

    The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched the first phase of its probe into the takeover of Morrisons by a US private equity giant today. The £7bn deal, which was completed in October, saw Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Holdings (CD&R) remove Morrisons from the London Stock Exchange. The move prompted the CMA to order the [...]

  • Morrisons loses ‘use-by’ date to fight food waste

    January 10, 2022

    Morrisons has announced it will lose the ‘use-by’ date from 90 per cent of its milk bottles as a way to better fight food waste. Instead of abiding by the ‘use-by date’, from the end of January the supermarket chain will ask customers to sniff the milk and see if it’s still drinkable, urging shoppers [...]

  • CD&R £7bn Morrisons takeover put on ice amid market volatility

    December 2, 2021

    Clayton, Dubilier & Rice’s takeover of British supermarket Morrisons has been postponed to next year, as lenders push back on the massive debt package that the US private equity firm is using to finance the buyout to wait out market volatility. In what represents the UK’s biggest buyout in more than a decade at a [...]

  • Activist fund Gatemore buys stake in DFS and warns of buyout vulnerability

    November 10, 2021

    Gatemore Capital management has bought a stake in DFS and told its fund investors that the sofa chain is undervalued by public markets and thus ripe for a private equity bid. Adding to its roster of listed British retailers, which includes Moss Bros, French Connection and Superdry, the activist fund told investors last month that [...]

  • Morrisons shareholders give seal of approval to $10bn CD&R takeover deal

    October 19, 2021

    Shareholders in Morrisons have voted to approve a £7bn ($9.7bn) takeover bid from US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, in the official end to a long and heated takeover battle. British supermarket Morrisons said the required majority of three quarters of its shareholders backed the deal at a hybrid in-person and virtual investor [...]

  • Morrisons hiring for 3,000 Christmas roles

    October 6, 2021

    Supermarket Morrisons is recruiting 3,000 Christmas jobs. It said it anticipated a busier Christmas with families and friends finally able to meet up free of Covid restrictions.  Roles range from warehouse and production staff to pickers and packers with full training provided and no prior experience necessary. The supermarket said 16-24 year olds receiving Universal [...]

  • Morrisons’ chairman calls Christmas supply concerns ‘slightly overblown’

    October 4, 2021

    Morrisons’ chairman has downplayed concerns over the supermarket supply chain this Christmas. Andy Higginson said he was “not worried” about the challenges arising from a shortage of goods drivers and reports forecasting empty shelves this autumn, the BBC reported. The supermarket boss said problems in the supply chain were “well publicised” and “slightly overblown”. “Supply [...]

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