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The Co-operative Group

  • Co-operative Bank eyes acquisitions as profits top £103m

    103.1M PROFIT

    The Co-operative Bank said it was eyeing up potential acquisitions today after it posted a 75 per cent surge in pre-tax profit to £103.1m in the first nine months of the year. The high street lender said profits had more than tripled from £29m on the same period last year as it became the latest [...]

  • Metro Bank, NatWest and Hospitality UK among top employers to back fertility pledge

    IVF support

    Metro Bank, NatWest, the Co-op, Channel 4, and UK Hospitality are among major employers backing a pledge to help millions going through fertility treatment.  A new campaign launched today in Parliament by the MP for Cities of London and Westminster, Nickie Aiken, hopes to support more than 3.5m people who can’t conceive naturally. The Fertility [...]

  • Asda completes £611m swoop for Co-op’s petrol business

    deal done

    Asda has completed a £600m deal to buy the Co-op’s petrol business Asda this morning. The deal includes 129 petrol forecourt sites, spread across the UK and represents five per cent of Co-op’s retail estate of 2,564 stores.    Co-op said it would use the proceeds to reinvest in the convenience business and reduce net [...]

  • Exclusive: Getir teams up with Co-op as rapid delivery firm looks to grow UK presence

    October 26, 2022

    Getir has joined forces with Co-op to deliver groceries from the retailer to consumers in a hurry. The rapid delivery firm will launch a pilot to offer app users hundreds of Co-op products across London from today. Nisa Retail, Co-op group’s wholesale division, will be working with Getir to supply the range of around 300 [...]

  • Co-op profits hammered as challenges not expected to abate in second half

    September 29, 2022

    Co-op profits have taken a dent in the first half of this year, with bosses describing a “highly challenging economic backdrop.”  The retailer posted underlying EBITDA of £218m, with earnings subdued compared to the year prior when Co-op posted £248m for the first half of 2021. With arms spanning grocery, funeral, insurance and legal businesses, Co-op’s [...]

  • Fuel be surprised: Co-op sells petrol business to rival Asda for £600m

    August 31, 2022

    The Co-operative Group (Co-op) has announced it will sell the company's petrol forecourt business to Asda in a £600m deal.

  • Co-op appoints Shirine Khoury-Haq as first female chief in 159 years

    August 23, 2022

    The Co-op has appointed its former chief financial officer and interim boss Shirine Khoury-Haq as group CEO.   The group’s former boss Steve Murrells, stepped down in May following the company’s annual general meeting. Murrells took the reins of the supermarket as CEO in March 2017, following a five year stint heading the company’s food business. [...]

  • 30-min weekly shop: Uber Eats and Co-op team up for rapid delivery service

    August 23, 2022

    Co-op and Uber Eats are partnering up for a speedy service as the grocery sector’s battle for convicent delivery hots up. On the Uber Eats app, shoppers can order more than 6,000 products from around 1,000 Co-op food stores. Groceries are to be delivered in as little as 30 minutes, the firms said on Tuesday [...]

  • Co-operative Bank posts profitability for fifth quarter in a row

    May 5, 2022

    The Co-operative Bank has achieved profitability for its fifth quarter in a row, after posting pre-tax profits of £30.5m. The Manchester headquartered bank said its profits had increased for the fourth consecutive quarter, as its earnings were bolstered by its mortgage business.   The bank said its net income had increased 36 per cent year-on-year [...]

  • Co-op profit hammered by supply chain disruption as chair warns of ‘stark headwinds’

    April 7, 2022

    The Co-operative Group’s profit has taken a battering after “significant supply chain disruption” last year, as the grocer pledges to support customers amid a cost of living crunch. The supermarket reported profit before tax of £57m for 2021, down £70m on the year before when it pocketed £127m. The Manchester-based grocer did mark higher profit [...]

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