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Ocado Group

  • Ocado pays out £20k following fire safety resignation

    OCADO

    Ocado is set to fork out £20,000 in damages after a former employee raised alarms about warehouse fire safety issues. The company is facing allegations that the worker was forced out of his job after he said the cardboard materials and pallets blocked fire exits. The Telegraph reported that court documents said a “witch hunt” [...]

  • Shoppers spend less at Ocado after offices reopen and Covid measures ease

    OCADO UPDATE

    Ocado customers are spending less through the online grocery delivery service as pandemic habits return to normal. In an eight week trading update, Ocado said its average basket size came in at £124, 15 per cent lower than last year. This was reflective of changing shopper behaviours as customers return to physical supermarkets and offices.  [...]

  • Ocado shares plummet 10 per cent as investors show anxiety towards ‘resilient’ growth

    OCADO

    Ocado’s shares are taking a beating this afternoon, with investors appearing unimpressed by group revenue and international expansion. Despite the online retailer reporting that group revenue was up 7.2 per cent to £2.5bn for the full year, shares plummeted as much as ten per cent this morning. It comes after Ocado, which is a 50:50 [...]

  • Open warfare: Ocado claims Autostore is lying while rival says online grocer’s IP rights are ‘invalid’

    January 31, 2022

    The war of words between Ocado and its rival Autostore reached new heights today as Ocado accused Autostore of misleading investors over its legal battle with the online grocer in Germany. Autostore issued an update on the Norwegian stock market on Monday claiming that a judge in a Mannheim Court said Ocado’s intellectual property rights [...]

  • Ocado anticipates ‘best-ever Christmas’ as it eyes new Zoom site openings

    December 14, 2021

    Ocado has forecast its “best-ever Christmas ahead” and said it anticipated mid-teens sales growth for 2022.  In a trading update for the 13 weeks to 28 November, the grocer said there was “strong momentum in under-lying demand”. It posted retail revenue of £547.8m for the quarter. This was compared to £570.1m in the same period [...]

  • Ocado Zoom workers call to be made dependent contractors

    October 26, 2021

    Ocado drivers have demanded the grocer bring in couriers in house on restructured contracts. Drivers in Acton, West London said they wanted to be employed as Limb B workers – dependent contractors – as it was a “flexible employment model that works perfectly for the ad hoc, on demand business.” In a letter to board [...]

  • Ocado invests £10m into self-driving tech startup Wayve

    October 6, 2021

    Self-driving tech startup Wayve’s total funding raised has hit $60m following an investment from grocer Ocado.  Ocado is investing £10m ($13.6m) in a partnership with Wayve that will develop autonomous grocery deliveries.  An autonomous delivery trial will involve a number of Ocado delivery vans on busy London routes – with a human driver to oversee [...]

  • Hot under the collar: Ocado pins revenue tumble on warehouse fire

    September 14, 2021

    Online supermarket Ocado has pinned a revenue dive over the last quarter on a fire at one of its London warehouses, in its latest trading update today. The fire, at its south London Erith Customer Fulfilment Centre in July, cost Ocado some £35m in revenue, it said in a statement – the equivalent of 300,000 [...]

  • Former Amazon vice president poached for Ocado board

    August 24, 2021

    Online retailer Ocado has poached a former Amazon vice president and robotics expert for its board, as the supermarket looks to broaden its market share. Incoming independent non-executive director and board veteran, Nadia Shouraboura, is set to join Ocado at the turn of September. Shares lifted 2.43 per cent by the afternoon, taking the group’s [...]

  • Ocado sales dip as pre-pandemic habits return, supermarket data finds

    August 17, 2021

    The UK’s return to normality has been accompanied by a return to pre-pandemic shopping habits, with online and overall grocery sales declining. The latest grocery market share figures from Kantar for the period ending 8 August show that grocery sales fell by four per cent. The latest twelve weeks saw the lowest level of online [...]

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