LONDON – A post-pandemic decline in on-line grocery’s share of Britain’s general meals retail market shouldn't impression Ocado Group’s potential to draw extra abroad know-how companions, its boss stated on Tuesday.
On-line grocery in Britain greater than doubled in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, peaking at 16% of the general meals retail market.
However by December 2022 it had fallen again to 11.6%, in accordance with market researcher Kantar, down 0.6 proportion factors on the yr.
“Had grocery globally stayed on the (pandemic) highs and grown from then, then the demand for our service might need been a a number of of what we might have traditionally anticipated,” Ocado Group Chief Govt Tim Steiner instructed reporters.
“However the business continues to be the place folks in 2018 would have forecast it to be in 2023 and rising and so I don’t assume there’s any worldwide slowdown,” he stated.
Know-how partnership agreements with meals retailers together with Kroger in the USA, On line casino in France, Aeon in Japan and Lotte in South Korea has pushed Ocado Group’s 6.7 billion pound ($8.2 billion) market capitalisation.
Steiner was talking after Ocado Retail, the net grocery store three way partnership between Ocado Group and Marks & Spencer, up to date on buying and selling within the run-up to Christmas.
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